A closed mind is the most expensive thing anyone can ever own. Your post shows an extreme lack of understanding, research and forethought... This posts makes you look like a fool not because of your belief in a specific structure, but because of your ignorance.

In the future if you'd like to make a thread that can serve to do more then make those with your stance collectively look like closed minded fools, while simultainously getting your ego stroked only by others who can't see past the bridge of their nose... then perhaps instead of blindly attacking, opening up a friendly discussion would be advisable... now that type of thread I would be happy to provide arguments for either side.

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It's the band-aid principle. it's fun for a while, but it's worthless in the long run.
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Where did you get this horribly incorrect info from?

Check this out...it is not a gimmick...it is simply a form of controlling your emotional state, end of story. You have anchored thousands/millions of different states without even knowing it already in your life. When you initially had AA, that alone is an anchor! The THOUGHT/VISUALIZATION of approaching a women was anchored to the feeling/state of fear. In the same way that drinking alcohol to many people triggers the craving for a cigarette. It's impossible for us to get into a particular emotional state without a trigger....else that emotional state would be meaningless wouldnt it.

Now, as for your theory on it 'just fading away'...heres the thing, if you do not regularly anchor a particular state then yes the intensity of the state will 'fade' away, HOWEVER this does not mean it does not help you in the long (far from it!). Every single time you use that trigger to get yourself into state, what happens? You think, speak and BEHAVE differently. Now lets say for example you have anchored an emotional state of ultra confidence, once you have triggered that state you will BEHAVE more confidently. Now the very fact that you are BEHAVING in a certain way (in this case confidently) will slowly but surely re-train your subconscious mind to that of this confident state. Why, because our very behavior forms and strengthens our core beliefs.

Try public speaking 100 times, first off you will probably crap yourself, but i guarantee that after your 100th speach you will look back and see how your BELIEFS on public speaking and the fear you once had is now completely changed/morphed. You didn't even need to visualize anything to attain these new beliefs, you just forced yourself to act out, which imprinted new beliefs.

So, every single time you get yourself into state using a trigger, you are telling your subconscious mind that this is natural, this is who I am and you are impriting new beliefs...and after some time you will not need a trigger...you will BE that state, it will be a core belief of yours. Remember we are exactly what our subconscious believes, simple as that. And its all about communicating and re-training the subconscious to believe you are this new person that you would like to become.

Two main things that lead to changing our belief system is visualization/imagination (as the subconscious cannot tell the different between a real and imagined experience), and then the actual behavior (actually ACTING OUT will strengthen these beliefs).

Fundamentally that's all there is to self change/development. Experiencing a state long enough (through visualization OR real experience) until the subconscious believes it is real, and it will eventually without doubt, believe it real (this is exactly how you formed your CURRENT beliefs on everything in life).

You will find the above concepts in modern NLP, as well as personal development concepts which go back 100 years.

Jav I think its great that you tried anchoring, now get brilliant at it! It will change your world.

PUADave, awesome..as you say use everything at your disposal.

Once you start understanding HOW these techniques work on the mind, it will make so much sense (if it doesn't already!).