The anchor is theoretically a connection, learning between two subjective experiences that occur at the same time. That is, I see, hear or feel something, and at the same time I link to a feeling or an information (information Yes, part of Bandler's work is based on this), which at that time is being processed.
The theory says that if the stimulus is sufficiently accurate and the feeling is enough intense, the brain will learn to connect both. Without going into details (I repeat, this is not an online course).
The first point to consider is that the trainers don't know how to generate intense states in people, so it hardly the information will be saved. A phobia from an experience, is created in seconds because the feeling associated with that experience was very intense and the brain learns quickly.
What usually happens is that the self called NLP gurus or trainers evaluated by self called master trainers don't know how to generate in a demonstration, a state enough intense create a connection. And I say this because the amount of information of all kinds in which the person is submerged during the demonstration, causes a further loss of precision in the anchor stimulus or trigger.
All this means that people don't see spectacular demonstrations of anchors and least know how to use them in practices or exercises, so they end up thinking that anchors don't work. It is curious that such a logical sequence from the premise that your coach is qualified so if my coach knows, and anchors don't work , and to me either, ergo they don't exist. But they do not think that probably it's because the trainer has no idea how to do it?
Not only that, but you can also ask for what they are. Hence, this is the moment to take your popcorn and to sit down. The usual answers that come from the standard NLP books are: to provide the person of new resources to cope with limiting situations , or something like that. Oh yeah? And how?
The anchor has to be part of a much larger strategic process, and this can be one of the reasons why anchors don't work in people.
People work through strategies: sequences of mental representations that allow us to carry out decision-making processes. Within these strategies, there are steps where the component kinesthetic (feeling) is a determining factor because it is what makes it possible to leave or stay in a loop operation (trial and error). The anchors should be thought of as way to affect these sequences in the kinesthetic (k) part because in fact, they play the role of output element in most of the sequences of the subjective structure.
Therefore, when you fire an anchor outside of any strategy, your brain doesn't know what to do with that. It's like throwing a flare in the middle of the night. It illuminates for a few seconds and then darkness. Sometimes it can make some sense, but its usefulness lies in using them into the sequence of an individual subjective structure in order to affect it and to generate a different outcome.
With a little of luck any trainer or some self called NLP guru will read this and will think for some seconds about whether he should continue to apply automatically some already invented techniques or whether it's worth learning and research on how people create such a subjective structure and to teach how to modify to use it in different contexts.
With a little bit of bad luck, a charlatan, trainer-of-200-hours-of-NLP or fraudster will read it and start to talk about it as if he knew as he does with many other things he says he knows. In that case, please ask a complete demonstration with detailed and sensorial verifiable results.
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