Interrupting Navigate Anchors and the importance of it
Anchors can be useful for the future or un-useful. An anchor is a sound, sight, taste, touch or smell that happens when you are in a certain emotional state of mind or mood. The more unique the sensory experience and the more intense the emotion the more likely that the trigger of the emotion will be repeated when the trigger happens in the future.
An example of a light hearted anchor would be the auditory stimulus of hearing a song from the prom and instantly entering the mood you were in staring into your date’s eyes during the slow dance.
An example of a negative anchor would be feeling a bit less freedom and finding yourself in panic or anger because of it triggering a time of loss or confusion in youth. Like losing a loved one, or a huge health setback etc.
So sometimes when these routines exist they should be appreciated and sometimes they are learned or conditioned responses that should be interrupted and a new awareness established. Then new routines that fit the current situation rehearsed.
Much of our emotional response can be because of triggers that cause abandonment fears, embarrassment fears, loss fears.
So, learning self awareness often has to do with realizing that these state of mind or emotional responses are based on stimulus and response in a reflex part of the brain prior to any reasoning. This means that interrupting the pattern has to have more intensity than the emotion itself and that these type of responses don’t change with reasoning but rather sensory experiences.
After that interruption the person will benefit from current external awareness which leads to better situation awareness. Then, if they can imagine their outcome over time they can rehearse the new mood that it takes to get there.
In other words, no matter how long you talk to yourself about why this or that feeling keeps repeating, it has nothing to do with how that feeling changes.
About the Founder
Building a network of referring physicians and mental health professionals. He studied eastern philosophy and martial arts all while touring as a speaker and running the clinics. You may find the experimentation and elimination of fluff from techniques and theories quite useful in your training in hypnosis or NLP with MHS.
Interrupting Navigate Anchors and the importance of it
- Scott McFall
Anchors can be useful for the future or un-useful. An anchor is a sound, sight, taste, touch or smell that happens when you are in a certain emotional state of mind or mood. The more unique the sensory experience and the more intense the emotion the more likely that the trigger of the emotion will be repeated when the trigger happens in the future.
An example of a light hearted anchor would be the auditory stimulus of hearing a song from the prom and instantly entering the mood you were in staring into your date’s eyes during the slow dance.
An example of a negative anchor would be feeling a bit less freedom and finding yourself in panic or anger because of it triggering a time of loss or confusion in youth. Like losing a loved one, or a huge health setback etc.
So sometimes when these routines exist they should be appreciated and sometimes they are learned or conditioned responses that should be interrupted and a new awareness established. Then new routines that fit the current situation rehearsed.
Much of our emotional response can be because of triggers that cause abandonment fears, embarrassment fears, loss fears.
So, learning self awareness often has to do with realizing that these state of mind or emotional responses are based on stimulus and response in a reflex part of the brain prior to any reasoning. This means that interrupting the pattern has to have more intensity than the emotion itself and that these type of responses don’t change with reasoning but rather sensory experiences.
After that interruption the person will benefit from current external awareness which leads to better situation awareness. Then, if they can imagine their outcome over time they can rehearse the new mood that it takes to get there.
In other words, no matter how long you talk to yourself about why this or that feeling keeps repeating, it has nothing to do with how that feeling changes.