When you study and try out your NLP skills, you are opening the doors to taking full responsibility (or possibly that could say response-ability) for your life. Not only can your NLP skills be employed to help you learn more successfully and boost your level of motivation, but they will also allow you to grow to be an exceptional communicator. Furthermore you will be able to offer your expertise to others both in your private and business life.

The subject of this article is resource states, as talked about in the context of NLP skills. Consider that you were able to feel any way you wish to feel any time you like, and it is really as painless as breathing. How great would that be!

There are perhaps countless occasions when you would like to be in more effective command of your emotions, but as yet you have not been able to become expert in this skill. You will maybe identify with people who suffer from stage fright. We don’t even have to be in the situation. Simply thinking about it can bring us out into a cold sweat. Our imaginations go into overdrive as we return to all the other times when we have felt nervous, and then they amplify all those negative feelings, secure in the knowledge that it is destined to recur. And so, it is somewhat a self-fulfilling phophecy.

You can notice from the example that we actually practise getting into unfavorable resource states, such as feeling nervous, on a regular basis. Although these states are not especially beneficial, we clearly know well the process of state induction and there is no reason why we should not employ the same process to induce advantageous resource states.

So, what kind of emotional state would be useful in this situation? You would probably like to be serene and confident. Well, you do already know what it is like to be like this. All you have to do, as previously in negative situations, is to remember all the instances when you felt serene and confident and make it as authentic as you can. Call to mind everything about it, from how you was standing, how you were breathing, how you felt, what you observed and what you were listening to back then.

In the unlikely event that you are not able to recall any events when you experienced the kind of states that you are planning to access, then you probably know someone who is a role model for you, who you are able to copy. Maybe you know them personally or they are a public figure, and you can simply picture how they would approach your situation and act as they would. See, hear and feel as they would and copy them.

You may have noticed that sometimes that there little things that trigger memories and all the associated feelings you experienced at the time. Maybe, it is someone giving you a slap on the back that reminds you of how you felt when your father gave you a congratulatory one upon your passing an exam, or perhaps a whiff of a certain perfume brings to mind a romantic dance. These triggers are known as anchors, and as one of your NLP skills, you can choose an appropriate anchor and integrate it into the resource state that you are working on. So, you need to make your chosen state as big and bold as you can and then build in an anchor, such as scratching the tip of your nose. Then, whenever you do this action again, it will bring back the feelings of the resource state automatically.

When you grow to be a master of the NLP skills of inducing good resource states and successfully anchoring them, then you bring so many more possibilities into your daily life because you know that you can’t be thrown by any situation. Even if you are at first, you have the necessary skills to recover the situation and make sure that you perform to the best of your potential.