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Mar201014

Push the button: A simple guide to using triggers to change behaviour

A trigger: an act that sets in motion some course of events

an object, a symbol, a gesture, or a movement and turning it into a trigger. It’s programming yourself to react or feel a certain way when an event is triggered. It’s part power of suggestion, part power of intention. And it works.

So how do we install these triggers?

1) Find a quiet spot where you can stay uninterrupted.

2) Choose an emotional state you want to access. It can also be a certain attitude: Happy, resourceful, calm, relaxed, sleepy, whatever the state you want to anchor is, the method remains the same. But attention, because it must be something you have experienced in your life.

3) Create a Positive Resource Anchor?
Recall a time in the past when you have felt the way you want to feel when your Anchor is fired. As you vividly remember that time, remembering everything you saw as if you were seeing it again, back through your own eyes, hear what you heard and feel the feeling you had at that time. When the feeling is at its strongest, “anchor” it by making a gesture, or gently pressing or squeezing an appropriate and accessible part of your body, e.g. making a fist, pushing the palm of your hand etc.

Break your state by jiggling your body or moving in some way then repeat the above using a different and equally positive memory from the past, then anchor that. Repeat this several times to make the anchor strong.

Then test how strong your anchor is by breaking your state and then firing it off. Notice how great you feel!

What do you think? Have I missed any points? Please leave your comments below:

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Originally posted 2009-01-05 22:56:10.

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Why should smokers pay for fatties?

Americans get really weird when we talk about obesity. They’re terrified of hurting the feelings of fat people and treat their condition as a mystery, a phenomenon that modern science may someday unravel. If you can’t drink four litres of cola a day and stay skinny, it must mean you have a slow metabolism or something – anything rather than admit that junk food creates porkers. Take California. Research shows that obesity costs the state almost $7.7bn a year. With this in mind, the state legislature last week proposed a new tax on… tobacco.

Just 13% of adults smoke in California, yet lawmakers want to penalise this harassed minority to help pay for the ballooning costs of obesity. But why not tax fast food instead? American shops are awash with sugary and fried snacks that contain almost no nutritional value. It’s not food, it’s calorific entertainment – so charging extra for it is reasonable. It wouldn’t bankrupt junk-food makers, and junk-food eaters might not even notice. But it finally would force junk food to contribute to healthcare instead of just weighing on the system.