Anchoring
The deliberate association of a stimulus (touch, gesture, word, image) with a specific internal state so the stimulus can later trigger that state on demand.
Anchoring is one of the most widely taught NLP techniques. It works by linking a unique trigger to a state at the moment of that state's peak intensity. Once installed, firing the trigger reliably elicits the state with diminishing fidelity over time. Trainers use anchoring to give clients between-session access to resourceful states like calm, focus, or confidence. Anchors can be set, stacked (multiple states on one trigger), chained (one anchor leading to the next), or collapsed (two opposing anchors fired simultaneously to neutralize a negative state).
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