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Anchors

Anchors

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Your can change your state of mind or mood easily using the techniques of anchoring. This means you can, for example, stay calm and relaxed whatever other people are doing or however provoking they may be. 

While NLP offers you techniques to create a desired anchor (see below), you are also already affected by anchors throughout your life and go into a good mood or a bad one … feel motivated to do one thing or to do another … feel confident and resourceful or the opposite. We are responding to anchors, but we may not know what they are. These anchors have been built up accidentally and some of them can be used in your favor even without knowing any techniques.

So it is worth investigating what resonates with you most. Very often this is connected to you preferred representational system (–> see VAKOG).

Being quite visual, pictures can work as an anchor (background pictures for your computer, a picture in your purse).

E.g. when I feel very tense and would like to get into some state of calmness and having a fresh mind, I like to remember an early morning hike on the Mount Batur in Bali (–> see Sunrise).

If you are (like I am) also a very auditory person, music playlist might help you to get into a desired state. I have playlists for all kinds of moods on my iPhone – one that helps me to be confident when I make a public appearance, one that gets me into a competitive mode when preparing for a tennis match, one to lift me up when I am down or one to calm me down when I am nervous.

For further reading:

https://nlp-mentor.com/nlp-anchoring/

https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/mindMastery/anchoring.htm

True visionary

True visionary

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“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming” – imagine 1999 … the rise of the internet has just started. To get access to the world wide web you needed modems, that made strange noise and would take minutes until you can get started. Websites took ages to built up, let alone videos. To download one song of 3 minutes could easily take an hour. A lot of people expected the internet to “go away one day”. This is the background to watch David Bowie’s predictions of where this would go …

See the full interview below – from minute 7:00 you can witness a true visionary. Predicting the future of the internet, music and society.

“The potential of what the internet is going to do to society, both good and bad is unimaginable.”

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Footprints in the sand

Footprints in the sand

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„Footprints in the sand“ (see below) resonates very much with me. David Bowie references the poem in his 2002 song „I would be your slave“

„I don’t sit and wait
I don’t give a damn
I don’t see the point at all
No footprints in the sand
I would give you all my love
Nothing else is free
Open up your heart to me
And I would be your slave“

One of my favourite and most intense David Bowie concert moments, when he threw this song into the red light of the sunset as if he was disputing God.

Thought the poem is addressed to God, for me this could as well be addressed to one’s parents, lover, friends, you name it. As well Bowie actually has always been ambiguous who „I would be your slave“ actually adresses to.

In which way ever one would like to interpret the poem, it’s gives much comfort to have someone who cares next to you when the times get rough. In these moments, however, the view is often so narrowed that we no longer even notice a supporter. One thing to consider from time to time. And on the flip side – if you are the one on the sunny side, then you might as well be the one who is carrying the other. So worth looking out for footprints …

„One night I had a dream… I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord, and
Across the sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; One belonged to me, and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of my life flashed before us, I looked back at the footprints in the sand. I noticed that many times along the path of my life, There was only one set of footprints.

I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in my life
This really bothered me, and I questioned the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
You would walk with me all the way;
But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life,
There is only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why in times when I needed you the most, you should leave me.

The Lord replied, “My precious, precious child. I love you, and I would never, never leave you during your times of trial and suffering.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.“

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Where does “Primality” come from?

Where does “Primality” come from?

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I had been thinking for a while about a name my blog could have. “Pacemaker”, “A life less ordinary”, “Sideman”, “Windschatten” or “Wingman” have been choices … some of them might give you an indication of my strengths and values. Maybe more on a later day.

Anyway – back in 2018 Herbert Grönemeyer released his new record “Tumult”. Grönemeyer is one of my favorite German musicians. Actually one of the few German language artists I really like. “Tumult” at that time was a kind of relief, Grönemeyer found the right words to express my feelings about reservations against foreigners or minorities and the need to stand up against the growing right-wing movement all over the world.

Wir teilen uns durch eins und uns selbst
Träume, seid ihr noch da?
Denn euer Nein hab’ ich schon
Ich brauche jetzt ein Ja

We divide ourselves by one and ourselves
Dreams, are you still around?
Cause I got your “No” already
Now I need a “Yes”.

Herbert Grönemeyer “Seid ihr noch da” taken from his CD “Tumult”. Translation by primality.eu

A number that divides only be one and itself … a prime number. I remember one day coming home from primary school and excitedly telling my parents that I had learned “real math” today. And by that I meant numbers with arithmetic signs, finally not just pictures anymore. The enthusiasm was to remain throughout my school days (an enthusiasm I would share with my dad), and I would do my A-levels with a focus on mathematics, physics and computer science.

Even though I had nothing to do with mathematics since my school days, I remained a number nerd. I love number series, I prefer numbers if they are square numbers, prime numbers or multiples of 3. So Grönemeyer’s line reminded me of something that sits very deep with me. “Prime” did not really work as a name, but “Primality” does. And I very much like the uniqueness of a prime number as much as I believe in the uniqueness of every human being and the ability to stand out and shine in a very unique way.