No-Fail Coaching Tip: Somatic Anchoring
If you’re a hypnotherapist NLP
(Neurolinguistic Programming) practitioner or Energy Coach, you know this one. But for others who may not have these kinds of tools in their toolbox, if you work with clients in a helpng relationship, this technique is a must-have. Try the below "no-fail coaching tip" and have
fun with it!
Whatever is happening in session, or whatever
direction the client is taking, it is always a good idea to get them in
touch with their body. The body is the one thing in life that will always
stay with the client and can be utilized as a powerful aid in your coaching or therapy sessions. How they’re feeling about what’s going on is a large
part of the key towards breaking through blockages and having all the
resources they will ever need at their beck and call.
I have the client
identify where a desired resource feeling - "Where does Courage (or insert whatever you’re coaching on) live in your
body?" Get the client really into it, have them "amp up" the feeling as
much as possible. When that feeling is at its peak, have the client put
a hand over that space and warm it up with the heat of their hand. If
this isn’t physically possible, mentally imagining the hand in the
appropriate place will also do the trick.
This is called "resource anchoring" in hypnotherapy, NLP and Energy Coaching. Resource anchoring allows you
to elicit a specific, chosen, emotional state upon demand. It connects
the client with extensive resources they may not realize they have, get
real with their true intents, and can act as a "Go button" to take
action in a given situation. They can "trigger" this anchor in the
session or at any time in the future that they desire by touching the
part of the body where the resource is felt, and has been anchored in
session. Remembering that "Courage lives here, Courage is mine" and
feeling the feeling of Courage opening and embracing them fully as they
touch their hand to their heart, would be an example of self-triggering
a resource anchor.
You don’t even need to be in person to do this
with your clients - it works superbly over the phone as you are having
the client do all the somatic work (touching where the resource is felt
in their body) by themselves. And once an anchor is set, it’s there for
good unless the client or coach feels the need to collapse the anchor.
More about anchoring is available on the internet, a good resource for
which is here: http://www.nlp-hypnosis.ws/nlp_anchoring.htm
Enjoy!
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