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The Renewal Times
August, 2005.
ISSN 1705-3773 The Renewal Times

The Renewal Times is a publication of Renewal Technologies and is edited by Roger Ellerton.

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Included in this newsletter:

• Thought for the day
  
• Health Notes
  
• Upcoming Seminars
  
• Feature Article
  
• Humour
  
• News
  
• More Information
  

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Thought for the Day
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If a man does not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny and his God.

         George Lois

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Health Notes
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Warm Feet Help You Sleep

Get yourself ready for sleep by warming up your feet.

In addition to having a quiet, dark room to sleep in, having warm feet also may help trigger sleepy feelings, research suggests. The body naturally dilates blood vessels in the hands and feet and releases heat from these extremities in preparation for sleep. Warming your feet with socks and then removing the socks would mimic this sleep preparation process.

Warm feet promote the rapid onset of sleep. Krauchi, K., Cajochen, C., Werth, E., Wirz-Justice, A., Nature 1999 Sep 2;401(6748):36-37.

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Eat Your Fish Baked or Broiled

A recent study revealed that people who ate baked or broiled fish at least once per week had a decreased risk of atrial fibrillation, a heart condition characterized by irregular heart rhythms. People who ate fried fish or fish sandwiches did not experience any reduction in risk.

Fish intake and risk of incident atrial fibrillation. Mozaffarian, D., Psaty, B. M., Rimm E., B., Lemaitre, R. Z., Burke, G. L., Lyles, M. F., Lefkowitz, D., Siscovick, D. S., Circulation 2004.

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Upcoming Seminars / Workshops
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Introductory NLP Evening

August 23, 7:00pm – 10:00pm

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NLP Practitioner Training

Three week-ends: September 23 - 25, 30, October 1- 2, 28 - 30, 2005.

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Feature Article
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Basic Anchoring Concepts

By Roger Ellerton Phd, ISP, CMC, Renewal Technologies www.renewal.ca

You can create anchors to serve you or change those that do not generate the results you want. To do this, you need to understand some basic concepts about anchors.

Anchors can be created naturally or artificially in two ways:

• In a single instance, if there is a highly emotional (positive or negative) event. E.g. your significant other takes you to a special place and proposes to you in a very romantic and emotional way. When you return to this location, what comes to mind?
• Repetition, the continual association between a stimulus and a response. Repetition is needed if the emotion is not strong or there is no emotional involvement. Television commercials often link an alcoholic beverage with a pleasant experience. After seeing this advertisement a number of times, you begin to make the association.

The anchor needs to be:

• Unique, distinct and easy to repeat. If touching your thumb and index finger is not something you do on a regular basis, then this would be a good kinesthetic anchor. Saying a word internally to yourself in a particular tone of voice would be a good auditory/auditory digital anchor. Selecting a trigger that you inadvertently fire quite often has the potential of dissipating the anchor and rendering it useless. Unique triggers make better and longer lasting anchors.
• Linked to a state that is cleanly and completely re-experienced. If your client wishes to create an anchor to feel confident in certain situations and he recalls a past event when he felt confident, but he was also confused as to your instructions, then the stimulus will generate a response that is a mixture of confidence and confusion.
• Timed just as the state is reaching its peak. As your client recalls a time that he had a certain attribute (e.g. confidence), the feeling of confidence will begin to get stronger until it reaches a peak. Generally, the anchor should be applied when the response is about 2/3 of its peak and held until it peaks. Depending on how fast your client accesses his feelings, the anchor could be applied anywhere from a couple of seconds to 10 seconds. Applying the anchor past the peak, may pick up a weakened state or some other state.

The basic steps for anchoring are:

1. Have your client recall a past vivid experience for the state you are anchoring.
2. Apply a specific trigger as the state is reaching its peak.
3. Break state.
4. Test the anchor. When you fire the trigger, does your client think of the state?
5. Repeating steps 1 – 3 several times will make the anchor stronger. This is called stacking an anchor.

The best state to anchor is a naturally occurring state (e.g. you are laughing at a joke you just heard). The next best state is a past vivid highly associated state. If you wish to create an anchor for a specific state that you have never experienced, do you know someone that has that quality? Imagine stepping into that other person’s shoes and taking on her physiology and feelings (this person can be real or imaginary).

To elicit a past memory for anchoring purposes, you can use the following scrip for yourself or with your client:

Remember a specific time when you were really _____ (e.g. confident). Close your eyes and fully associate into that memory by going back to that time, putting yourself in your own body, looking through your own eyes, seeing what you saw, hearing what you heard and have the feelings of being really _____.

You can also assist your client by using a voice tonality that reflects the state he is accessing. If he is accessing an energetic state, then your voice tonality would reflect energy.

To maintain an anchor, it should only be fired when necessary and have regular reinforcement. To reinforce (or build up) an anchor, you can either on a regular basis repeat the process you used to establish the anchor or if you notice you are naturally experiencing the state that you desire then fire the trigger to enhance the anchor.

To make an anchor really strong or to associate different resources to the same anchor, you can stack anchors; that is you repeat the anchoring process several times by eliciting several occurrences of the same or different states and anchor them in the same place.

And NLP is Much more than that!

Author: Roger Ellerton is a certified NLP trainer, certified management consultant and the founder and managing partner of Renewal Technologies. He can be reached at Renewal Technologies www.renewal.ca or by e-mail info@renewal.ca

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Humour
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Judges

The Judge asked the defendant, "Mr. Jones ,do you understand that you have sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?"

"I do."

"Now what do you say to defend yourself?"

"Your Honor, under those limitations... nothing."

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Judge: "Have you anything to offer to this Court before I pass sentence?"

Defendant: "No your honor, my lawyer took every penny."

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