6 Steps To Cure Test Anxiety with NLP

Here is a nice little tip for all you students who suffer from test anxiety.

1. Think of an image in the past where you had test anxiety. Anchor that state at the peak.

2. Then think of a time you were resourceful, anchor that emotion. Think of a time when you were proud of yourself, anchor that. Think of a time when ....(positive emotion)..

3. Break State

4. Fire both anchors and collapse the negative anchor.

5. Test, by thinking of taking the dreaded test and see how you feel. If you don't feel like you will past that test and get A's on your tests, repeat steps 1-4.

6. Future pace and imagine you passing every test while feeling relaxed and confident.

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NLP New Orlean Flexability Drill and NLP Change Personal History

What is the New Orleans Flexibility Drill?

The New Orleans is rarely used and has been replaced by Time line Therapy. And in the spirit of the psychology I will spare you the details and briefly describe this ancient treatment.

This drill is used to delete negative feelings from a specific situation by collapsing past negative anchors installing more resourceful anchors. For instance, when my mom talks to me it make me want to pull out my hair.

What is the NLP Change Personal History?

Personal history change is relatively easy and effective (like all NLP techniques) and is used to create a more resourceful past experience.

The first thing a NLP practitioner would do is to have the client imagine the reoccurring negative emotion that happened in the past and anchor that emotion.

Then, build a series of positive anchors. Next, have the client lay down and imagine the negative emotion that was in the past. Then, the NLP practitioner would fire off the positive emotions anchor.

Test the past emotion, and repeat as many times as necessary and future pace.

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NLP Psychology or Excellents and the Ring of Power

What is the psychology of excellence?

To discover, elicit the pattern of, and utilize excellent behavior in themselves and others.

Or, said a little easier, it's classic nlp modeling. Find someone who posses attitudes and behaviors what you would consider excellence. Find out what they do and then do the same things.

There are two different strategies to elicit. The first is going to be the mechanics of the strategy, and the second will be attitudes, beliefs and behavior strategy.

For instance, let us pretend you would like dance like Michael Jackson. However, you are shy but physically you are prepared. So, you ask Michael, how do you dance like that? He tells you, I do this move, and then that move and end with a thingamajig. Cool, now you have the mechanics of how he dances.

Then you ask, but how do you do that with all the energy and emotion, it looks like you own that stage? He then tells you, I imagine the crowd going crazy, I picture myself doing everything perfect, the more the crowd cheers the more energy I put into each move. Then I go do what I just saw in my head.That would give you his internal mental strategy.

Now armed with this knowledge, go out and dance, just dance!

Describe the ring of power process as if you were doing it to yourself.

This is kind of a fun and crazy strategy for creating anchors.

First stand up and imagine a ring of power in front of you. This ring of power will give you what every emotion you want to feel.

1.Then, imagine a feeling you really want.

2.When you have the emotion and are feeling the feelings at the top jump into the ring. When the emotions starts to fade, step out.

3.Lastly repeat the process with as many emotions you want. When your finished, break state, and test by jumping into the imagionary ring of power and see if it triggers those emotions that you wanted.

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NLP Collapsing Anchors

Now that we have a general understanding of anchors, it is time to jump into the deeper water.

How do you collapse an anchor, and when would that be useful?

There are quite literally dozen of anchors that we are not even aware of, and maybe just as many that we are aware of. However, when we realize we have an anchor that we would rather not have, that is where collapsing the anchor will come in helpful.

For me, hearing the sound of people chew or sometimes even watching other people eat drives me crazy. It's like hearing nails on a chalk board, or whatever image makes your skin crawl. As you can imagine, this can be somewhat of a problem whether going out to eat, having a quiet dinner, and even seeing people eat in there car.

I have learned many different ways to deal with this problem, like not having people eat before I do because the sound of my chewing drowns out the sound of them chewing. I really don't eat at the dinner table because it is to far away from music, or TV that can drown out the sound. So, mostly we eat at the coffee table, outside, or with the music on.

To be perfectly honest, I have no idea how this got anchored, but either way at a very minimum is an annoyance, but usually it's frustrating for me. But, wouldn't be nice just to sit down and eat without having to go through this?

This is the process that a person could use to rid themselves of a negative anchor, no matter what it may be.

1. R.A.C.E. the negative anchor
Recall the anchor, Anchor to your physical body, Change emotional states, Evoke the emotion using the anchor to test and see if it worked.

2. R.A.C.E. multiple positives anchors such as love, laughter, power, gratefulness, etc in on spot. For instance, on the left thumb knuckle.

3. Break state

4. Fire both anchors off at the same time, then release the negative anchor, hold the positive anchor 5 more seconds, and check how you feel to see if the negative anchor is collapsed.

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NLP Anchoring, This is how we do it!

The four steps to anchoring are as follows: R.A.C.E.

1. Recall a vivid emotion experience. (Such as love, power, success, sympathy, etc.)

2. Anchor a specific trigger at the peak of the emotional state. (For example, touching your left thumb with your right pinky.)

3. Change the persons state. ( Think about something else, shake it off (literally), or do something so you no longer in the emotional state.)

4. Evoke the State. (Test and use the anchor, if you feel the emotional state after you used the anchor, it worked. If it did not work, simply repeat the steps.)

The 5 Keys to anchoring:

The quality of the anchor can be influenced by these 5 key areas. I-T.U.R.N.

1. The intensity of the emotion being anchored.

2. The timing of the anchoring (at the peak of the emotional state).

3. The ununiqueness of the anchor (the more original the anchor the easier it will be to trigger the emotion.)

4. The replication of the stimulus. (How well we can do our anchor). If we set an anchor where you have to reach down with your right hand and touch the back of your left heal, that is unique, but difficult to reproduce.

5. Number of Times

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NLP Anchoring

What is an Anchor?

Anchoring is a way to trigger an instant recall of an emotion, thought, or picture.

The most well known study on anchoring was done by Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov, had two dogs that he was experimenting with (I know that sounds bad, but hang in there). Right before he would feed the dogs, he would ring a bell. Then, after a certain period of time, he would ring the bell and the dogs would begin to salivate.

Whether known or unknown, people have tons of anchors. Someone could hear a song and it would remind them of a time, or an event.

A person could smell the Cologne or perfume of a complete stranger and it would remind them of someone else.

Or how about the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, yum! Reminds me of growing up as a child.

Anchors can be produced in any of the five senses. In fact, every time I see a red, late '80's Toyota Celica it reminds me of someone and I get an awful feeling.

The good news is, people can create positive anchors, and trigger any feeling they desire at will! How cool is that!

An anchor is created when a person is in a strong emotional state and something happens over and over again. For instance, if I was to gently touch my wife's earlobe and whisper, I love you, and did that over and over again, eventually all I would have to do is touch her earlobe and presto chango, she feels loved.

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NLP and the Milton Model

What is the Milton Model?

The Milton Model is a way of communicating with people in such a vague way the language, is, or almost appears to be hypnotic. This style of communication was developed by Milton Erickson who was well know for getting rapid results with this clients.

Below is examples of the Milton Language patterns.

Prepare a hypnotic phrase for each of the language patterns:

1. Mind Reading: A mind read is where a person assumes to know what the other person is thinking. For example, I know you are wondering about.....

2. Conversational Postulate: Is in the form of a question and has to be answered as either yes or no. For example, Is this something you feel that you understand?

3. Simple Conjunction: Would include words like and or but within the sentence. For example, Welcome, it's nice to see you and I would like you to sit down and begin to relax.

4. Cause and Effect: Are statements that use words like force, makes, causes, requires, and because. For example, every time you hear the bell it causes you to relax more and more.

5. Selectional Restriction Violation: Is a sentence that doesn't really make sense and causes the listener to decode the statement. Also, these statements are illogical because that situation could never possible happen. For example, "The walls have ears." or "My car doesn't like it when you do that."
6. Lack of Referential Index: Is a statement that fails to identify a specific. For example, THESE are much easier than it looks. THIS is always the case.

7. Deletion: Involves part of the sentence missing. For example, "He doesn't love me."

8. Unspecified Predicate: Is a statement that has an unspecified verb. For instance, "Notice how you can..." and "As you continue."

9. Analogical Markings: Marks a portion of the sentence using nonverbal ques, such as a hand gesture or a louder tone.

10. Ambiguities: A) Phonological: Two words that sound the same, but have different meaning. Such as hear and here.
B) Syntax: is a word that cannot be immeadiately determined by the sentence. For instance, "They are visiting relatives." "Selling salesmen is tricky." "I am really over managing managers."

11. Embedded Commands: Is a presupposition that directs a persons thoughts. It assumes that a person is doing an action (or should be doing an action). For instance, "When you exercise tomorrow, pay attention to how good it feels." or "When you are attracted to her/him, do you feel the need to act?"

12. Extended Quotes: Is a quote in the form of a story that is used to get or give information. For instance, " I remember a long time ago, my grandpa told me a story... and he told me how change can be easy and fun."

13. Tag Questions: Is a question that is added to the end of a sentence to ensure the person is listening, following along, and/or understand the information. For instance, "What happens is...Does that make sense?" or "That makes sense, doesn't it?"

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