Jamie Smart’s NLP tip #19

 Amplify & Intensify, 13 May 2003

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  The next NLP Practitioner training starts in October.

This Week’s Tip

Last week’s tip focused on how to create the states you desire.  One of the responses to that tip was from someone who loves using anchors, but who asked the following questions:

•  How can I get the intensity of a remembered experience strong enough to anchor?

• What if I have difficulty remembering experiences that I can anchor?

These are excellent questions, and ones that many people face when they are first start learning NLP, so this week we’re going to explore some of the ways that you can amplify and intensify the states you experience.

In a previous tip, I talked about going on an extremely intense rollercoaster ride at Disneyland Paris.  One of the things I noticed on the first rollercoaster I went on there was that, at certain points on the ride, I was talking to myself about the experience.  As soon as I became conscious of this, I used one of my techniques to go quiet inside and made myself fully available to the experience.  On all the rides which followed, I made sure to do this before we even started, so…

1)      Make sure that when you are having a powerful experience, you are present!

When you are fully present for the original experience, you give your unconscious the cleanest data to recover at a later stage.  The way people mess with this is using internal dialogue (see Tip #8 - How to go quiet inside for more details on how to quiet the chattering monkey.)

2)      Create intense experiences and anchor them.

One of the ways that I practised having more intense experiences was creating contexts for them, so…

While you’re having the experience, be there for it.  Go quiet inside & anchor it.  As you do this you will continue the process of building up your supply of intense & ‘clean’ experiences (by clean I mean sensorially intense rather than any comment on the content of the experience J)

Another way to bring back intense experiences is by using naturally occurring anchors.  I know that you can all remember times when you’ve smelt a certain smell and it has transported you to another place or time, almost as though you are actually there.  Smell, in particular, gives you the ability to re-access previous experiences with an amazing clarity, so…

3)      Use naturally occurring anchors.

• The feel of that special article of clothing against your skin

• That certain someone’s perfume

• The scent of certain aromas (Eg. incense, herbal mixtures etc)

• A certain photograph or film

• A particular piece of music

The list can go on & on.  Anchoring is a naturally occurring phenomenon – it has been going on all your life, so use the anchors that have already been set to access those experiences. 

Of course, you can access these naturally occurring anchors directly to intensify your states, or you can just imagine them.  When you imagine them, and hear again the sounds as you experience the feelings, you can find out what happens when you adjust the different qualities of the remembered experience (Eg. make the pictures bigger & brighter.)  Qualities such as picture size, brightness, and colour are referred to in NLP as submodalities, and apply to each of the sensory systems (Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Olfactory & Gustatory.)  I’m not going to talk about them this week, but we do explore other methods for enhancing & intensifying states on NLP training.

4)      Make the other elements of the experience (Eg. Visual, Auditory) more intense, & you can intensify the ‘felt’ experience.

Summary

This week’s tip focuses on ways to create more intense experiences.

1)      Make sure that when you are having a powerful experience, you are present!

2)      Create intense experiences and anchor them.

3)      Use naturally occurring anchors.

4)      Make the other elements of the experience (Eg. Visual, Auditory) more intense, & you can intensify the ‘felt’ experience.

Next time

Until next time…don’t make your pleasurable experiences too intense J 

best wishes,

jamie

info@saladltd.co.uk

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