Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

Get yourself in a state. Wouldn't it be great if we could conjure up motivation, enthusiasm, or confidence

at the drop of a hat? Thanks to a useful little technique called anchoring, We can collect good past experiences and

set them off to invoke a useful state in times of need. Ancering is a naturally

occurring event in our lives. It happens all the time when a particular cue

evokes a particular mood or state. You have already experienced anchoring.

Example anchors are songs, smells, places, images, things like that. They are the things that have

us saying, I always feel happy when I smell hot freshly baked bread, or I don't know why, but when I'm

I'm here I feel like I can do anything.

If you can recall a smell, object, face, or place

that always brings about a certain feeling

than you've experienced an anchor.

Where this understanding becomes useful is in learning how to collect these feelings

and trigger them at will.

It works in exactly the same way as a Pavlovian

example of having dogs salivate in response to the ringing of a bell. Here's how you can make an

anchor. Remember a time when you felt really good, happy, positive, and able to do anything.

Step into the memory and relive it fully. Remember what you saw, what you heard, how you felt.

Gather all the elements until you can fully recall the experience and then at the moment when it feels

strongest, touch the tip of your thumb and index finger together.

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