Negative anchoring is some pretty nasty stuff

In regards to the beginning chapters of my book I am relying on anchoring or more specifically the power of negative anchoring.This comes from NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming.Anchors are something we humans use everyday.The smell of baking bread may anchor good memories of your childhood summers at your grandparents house,or the smell of beer makes you sick reminding you of the time you had a few too many and vowed never to drink again( at least that brand of beer!)Anyway all ha-ha's aside we use anchors everyday both in a good way and a very negative way.You can develop a method to rid yourself of the negative anchors easy enough but let me impose a idea upon you.
Suppose the negative anchor was fueled by something so very traumatic that by the time the experts tried to help , they were viewed as a potential threat to your existence. The threat is so much that you would eliminate them with extreme prejudice to maintain your ever present existence....sound far-fetched?I don't believe so and my research backs that theory up also.Again,very nasty stuff.


Take yourself back to a place in time where your summer thoughts were getting a raise on your allowance,getting that cool swimsuit you have been eyeing at the store,and will your parents let you hook up the VCR in the gameroom/basement so you can have lots of late night movie parties with friends or by yourself.....remember the thoughts you had and how easily you were influenced by your surroundings and by the adults in your world.Can you remember how strong you felt about certain things or people or philosophies.Remember how you felt about a certain person you had a crush on and you were gonna love them forever plus infinity and you had a certain song.....

Now think 2 weeks or 2 months later when things were over. Maybe a certain new song reminded you of how they hurt or embarrassed you.Maybe you promised to never let it happen again and swore to make changes.Maybe even today you can still feel the way you did back then.That is anchoring....In a very negative way.We do it as adults but we are conditioned at a very young age. Again,fixable without having to call a professional but when you are a kid and you haven't lived much the dynamic can be strongly emphasized into something serious.

This is what our protagonist will be dealing with.Heavy loss and linking it to a song he hears at a very traumatic time in his life.His mentor will take note of this and use it to his advantage to solve some very large problems that he has acquired in the past couple of years.So we will have a Master manipulator who is an expert at the technology of NLP and a willing participant for him to program to his advantage.A young man whose thoughts should be on 10-speeds,Twinkies,and video games,but will be preoccupied with many other distractions and goals to accomplish.

I will be introducing our protagonist soon.........



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Charley Taylor