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Sliding Into Focus With Sliding Anchors

Sliding Into Focus: Sliding Anchors! Accelerate your anchoring technique with this force multiplier. In our recent survey a number of you mentioned a desire to have a greater ability to concentrate and focus on a project for an extended period of time. This is a common experience we all face more and more as we are expected to do more and more and are now living in the information overload world that Alvin Toffler predicted

Tom Dotz May 28, 2009

Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech?

Found this one in the local weekly, “Westword.” 🙂 “Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech? In this recently posted video, for instance, Obama is accused of using “the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis,” to … As you may have heard, Barack Obama recently became the president of the United States. However, his enemies continue to portray him as a smooth but dangerous character whose rhetorical

Tom Dotz February 6, 2009

Are You Tuning In?

A client told me today “I’m becoming increasingly, keenly aware of the concept of rapport … and how my responses control and influence every situation.” “Really?” I ask. She says “Since the NLP workshop, I’ve been sitting in meetings, practicing looking around, changing my body posture, watching my facial expression, aligning with the ideas being spoken. Align, align, align. And now I’m noticing that lately when people talk — they’re looking to ME for my

lisaj January 23, 2009

Allergy Process Formats

Recently the Allergy Process was mentioned to me as if there was only one version. No, no, no! 🙂 There are two distinct versions, and here are the tried and true exercise formats for both of them! You can find more instruction and framing in both “Heart of the Mind” and of course a full walk through in the “Allergy Process” Audio CD. Counter Example Process Note: This is written for an allergy, but you

Tom Dotz August 20, 2008

Weekly Tip: Noticing Anchors In Your World

Today notice the physical anchors that you have in place in your work environment. Does the cartoon on your desk make you smile? Does the chair where you normally sit elicit a positive state for you? How can you enhance (or change) physical anchors so that your work day is as pleasant and as productive as you want it to be?

Tom Dotz July 14, 2008

The Gold in Anchoring

Frequently advanced students of NLP seem to forget or pass over the benefits and strengths of Anchoring. Perhaps because of its simplicity, perhaps because it’s taught early on in most NLP programs. Whatever the reason, overlooking the effectiveness and ease of anchoring is a very big miss. So the next few weeks I’ll be exploring some of the ways in which anchoring can benefit us, and how we are affected by anchors presently out of

Tom Dotz July 10, 2008