ANchors are harmful!!
- Subject: ANchors are harmful!!
- From: gleko@iac.co.jp (Glenn Fraser)
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:09:42 +0900
I just had an interesting weekend, I thought a couple of you may be interested.
I went to what I thought was going to be a timeline seminar.
The woman running the seminar said she studied NLP and Hypnotherapy with
some guy in England.
I didn't check too carefully about her credentials, it seemed ok. Her
pamphlets suggested Timeline work. I'll be more careful next time.:)
When I got to the seminar it turned out to be a past life gig. Personally
I have a hard time believing in past life stuff cause everyone who goes back
to check on a past life seems to have lived a really interesting life as a
wizard or Cleopatra. Where the hell are all the the people who did the work?
As a metaphor I think it is great, a way for your mind to teach you
something useful. We spent a lot of the weekend doing some trance work to
"Find a past life". The woman I first worked with found out that we had
been married and that I was a powerful healer/seer on a hawaiin Island. I
died before her so she was pretty upset, though not as much as me. She was
able to resolve some issues she had been having about her own personal power
which she referred to as "Woman's power". She seemed to get a lot out of
the process.
My "past life" was quite interesting,
I was some dude in a white robe who needed to get a few things straightened
out.
Funnily enough all the things I had to get "straightened out" related
directly to the life I am living now.
We had some time after doing my "past life" so my partner went back
into trance and found out that
she was actually an insect from another planet, with some difficulties
communicating. I just had a nice (mental) walk on the beach.
During the seminar the trainer kept referring to NLP, mainly it seemed,
for my benefit. She had mentioned at the start of the seminar that she
didn't like anchoring. I asked her why and she said that she had seen
NLP trained salesmen use it and it took away people's ability to choose.
Near the end of the seminar she gave a demonstration of "Anchoring" that I
thought was reeeeeaaally interesting.
She mentioned NLP, to the group and said that I would know what she was
talking about but the rest of the group wouldn't. Funerals we were informed,
are great places to get "anchored". People walk up to you and grab your arm
while looking at you in a very sad way. This causes all the bad memories of
that day
to stay stuck in your arm. Then the next time someone comes and touches
your arm in that way you will feel like someone has just died.
She gave the impression that it was the way you looked that made the anchor
work.
I would have laughed had there not been 11 other people in the room, who
were taking this very seriously. The trainer then looked at the "subject"
in a deep and meaningful way and said, "I like you, I think you're wonderful".
This was the positive anchor. Which apparently is there for life.
A while later I raced over to a lady who had participated in the seminar.
I had a very "intense" look on my face, as she explained it later. I went to
grab her on the arm to tell her about something I thought may have been very
important for her. She pulled her arm away very quickly almost shrieking.
WHen I asked her why she said, "I didn't want you to anchor me with that
intense look on your face." Does that mean she would have walked around
with my face stuck on her arm?
I am glad I went to the seminar, I got to learn a little more about trance
than I knew before and a lot more about the negative affects of anchors.
And also how much more powerful they are than I had first thought.
Mind control through anchors, beware.
The main thing I learnt though was why NLP gets some bad press.
A little knowledge really can be a dangerous thing.
Hope there aren't too many typos and language violations for
the English mistakes challenged.
Glenn@going to really work on my anchors