Anchors, anchors everywhere
Every Saturday, at about 6pm, I pour myself a beer, put some olives in a dish and sit down and watch Harry Hill on the TV. I don’t forget if I am at home, it’s like an in-built alarm.
Earlier today my sister-in-law was telling me how her dad starts humming the theme tune to India Jones whenever he gets a little stressed. I might try humming it next time I see him just to test it.
Like Pavlov’s dogs, we all tend to have things that flick our switch. Little alarms that go off ‘making’ us do stuff. If it’s something not so bad, it’s not so much of a problem, but if it’s something that is actually harmful, what do we do?
My own preference is to first recognise the behaviour and nine times out of ten, I can just ensure I create a new healthy ‘habit’ to replace the old one. A simple bit of strategy replacement.
Sometimes it’s a case of delving deeper into the strategy that allows me to produce the behaviours. I like to work with someone to elicit the strategy and replace it, because although I have tried myself, I always find the intervention and discovery by a objective facilitator is much more effective when dealing with the old subconcious - he needs quite a bit of attention during the process.
Like most behaviours, it’s just a case of breaking something or replacing something.
Right, must get back to my olives.
Tags: Strategies