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In this article, you will find a comparison of the common example with my example of adapting the Chaining Anchor NLP technique.

It of course, can be used for more than road rage; it is good for any type of anger management issues therapy.

Chaining Anchors

In this common example of Chaining Anchors, we would be using 3 separate areas of their arm.

(This person is having a challenge with road rage.)

That is to say, 1 is feeling revved up; 2 is pulling back and becoming neutral; and 3 is relaxing. Always Fire Anchors in the order of most upset to neutral to relax. Over and over, talk them through it, moving faster and faster.

“Alternative to Road Rage” by Athena J. Mann

(It may be beneficial to begin this session with a Handshake Instant Induction.)

You will need to alternately tap your client’s digit-tip pads. (The meaty portion of the ‘finger’ tips.)

Naturally, you would tap the pad of their middle finger Anchoring it to their negative feelings.

Next, you would tap their pad of their index finger, transferring ‘finger pointing’ into ‘commanding’ or ‘pointing out to’ them-selves the need to shift into becoming neutral.

Last, you would tap the pad of their thumb, Anchoring it to ‘giving themselves a thumb’s up’ for relaxing.

Repeat the Chaining Anchors process at least 3 times; talking them through it faster and faster at first, and then at least 3 more times going slower and slower.

Have them ‘practice drum’ those digit-tip pads anytime they are starting to feel they are getting angry.

This will cause them to have to literally let go of their tightening state, making it easier for them to take themselves through the next steps, naturally with each step becoming easier.

As they drum faster and faster at least three times in a row, it gives them a focusing outlet for their building adrenaline.

Then as they begin to drum slower and slower at least three times in a row, beating out the rhythm will help to regulate their heart to a slower and calmer pace; while they are focusing on their movements from digit to digit to digit, affectively taking themselves from revved up, to neutral to relaxed.

Each time they slow it down, they will become calmer and calmer by the time they drum their thumb for the last time.

In this way, they can effectively deliver themselves this NLP technique… at any time they need; without having to seek their Practitioner to do it for them.

Notice how these 3 digits; follow the natural logic of the mind association with emotional communication.

The middle finger is of course linked irrevocably with communication of frustration, IE flipping someone the bird.

The index finger is of course irrevocably linked with commanding or pointing out or finger pointing. As we want our client to make a positive change in their life, we need to help them with this transference from negative to positive.

Likewise, the thumb is irrevocably linked with expressing that someone or something has either gained your accolades or your condemnation… and has been used as an externalization of such communication for thousands of years.

(You want to explain all of this to your client, as you talk-them-through what you are doing; because the mind needs to be able to make sense of things… it is human nature, to need to understand.)

‘Seeing’ the logic, in the “Alternative to Road Rage” NLP technique; will help them to accept the programming, as sensible, so that they can successfully take ‘the driver’s seat’ and re-program themselves.

In conclusion, this technique is not only a source of induced relaxation; it is in fact additionally a coping skill as well as a tool for teaching one’s self, discipline: and through use, it becomes even a self-confidence builder as your client experiences, tapping personal victory after personal victory.

AU NLP Certified Master Life Coach & NLP Trainer, Athena J. Mann