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State elicitation and anchor enables your client to access a useful state and then re access it at a time of their choosing in the future.

An important additional benefit of the technique is your client is getting experience in exploring their own memories and experience. This is the starting point for many other techniques, and a significant life skill.

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State Elicitation and Anchor - What's important

As practitioner go first. To help your client access a particular state 'Act as if' you're already in that state.

For clients that 'live in their heads' this technique can be really challenging. On the other hand it can be the first stage in them reconnecting with their senses (and in a way their life) and can have tremendous long term benefits.

State Elicitation and Anchor - The technique

Ask your partner where they would be happy having an anchor applied – to their arm, hand, shoulder? 

Ask your partner what state he/she would like to elicit. Imaging being in that state yourself to lead your partner in. 

Ask your partner to remember a time when he/she was in such a state, or ask them to make up a time when he/she was in such a state. 

Ask your partner:            

What can they see:

How big is the image? How far away? Motion or still? Colour or black and white? Bright or dim? Focused or unfocused? Associated or dissociated? One image or many?

What can they hear:

One point or all around? Loud or soft? Fast or slow? High or low pitch? Clear or muffled?

What can they feel:

Location in body? Breathing rate? Temperature? Weight? Intensity? Movement?

And you can explore taste and smell

Ask your partner to just double what he/she sees, hears and feels and when they go strongly into state, apply the anchor. 

Break state, then have your partner imagine experiencing they state strongly as you apply the anchor once more. 

Break state, then test the anchor.

See Wikipedia - Anchoring,  Wikipedia - Submodalities

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