Emotional Freedom Secrets - Emotions Make Good Servants But Bad Masters

Imagine the impact on your life, if you could switch to high performance states at will.
Many of us believe that we can't control our emotions but let me ask you this.

Have you ever been feeling down and then had a call from an old friend and then felt great. Or have you felt good and heard a song that reminded you of an old love.  You've immediately and instantly changed from sad to happy and happy to sad. Nothing in the external world has changed but your emotional states have been changed by triggers.

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Calls these triggers Anchors. The ones I mentioned are external but you can  create internal ones that you can use at will to be able to change your state and emotions. It is really amazing!

Another example is to think of a really enjoyable experience, a time when you felt really good. Go into that experience  and notice what you see and what you hear and re-live this memory.Notice how you feel and when you are ready return to the present. Notice the impact this has on your present state, especially your posture and breathing. Although the sights and sounds of the past are gone, the actual feeling is still very real. Whatever you were feeling before this paragraph you have now put yourself into a resourceful state.

In contrast think back to a slightly uncomfortable past experience. Imagine yourself back in that situation. What are you seeing? What can hear? How do you feel? Don't stay long and return to the present. How do you feel? Notice your state and your posture and your breathing.

Now change your state, do some exercise or move.

Some people have mastered their ability to change their state at will, creating for themselves and emotional freedom that transforms the quality of their lives. They fully experience the ups and downs of life but they learn , move on and do not dwell on emotional pain unnecessarily.

We can influence our states , rather than simply react to what happens on the outside. In the last few minutes, you have felt good, then uncomfortable, then..however you feel now. And nothing has actually happened in the outside world. You have done all this yourself.

So how can you control your states and fire these 'anchors'

1. Identify the situation where you want to be more resourceful
2. Identify the particular resource you want, e.g confidence.
3. Find an occasion in your life when you had that resource
4. Select and anchor (a trigger) you are going to use.
           i) physical anchor - e.g. touch your thumb  to your index finger
           ii) hearing anchor - e.g. confidence
           iii) visual anchor - choose a symbol or remember what you were seeing when you were
                  feeling  confident
5. Step fully into the the experience of that resourceful state..  Relive that experience as if you are seeing it and hearing it. What can you see? What can you hear? What can you feel, taste and smell? Really get into it.
6. When it comes up to the peak , fire your 3 anchors (i.e. touch your physical anchor (eg touch your thumb to your index finger) , hear you hearing anchor ('confidence') and see your visual anchor..
7. Think of something else.
8. Repeat steps 5 to 7 a few times.
9. Identify a signal that lets you know you are in that situation where you need this resource. This will remind you when to use your anchor.

These techniques take practice and the more you practice the more you will be able to control your emotional state.

If you find this interesting and amazing , there is a great to read to find out more. It's called 'Introducing NLP 'by Joseph O'Conner and John Seymour.  Click here for the link.