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Another use that I demonstrated is testing. After we had done the integration work, after she had the resource and relived the experience with the resource so that she changed her personal history, I gave her a few moments, and then I reached over and triggered the original anchor. The response I got was an integrated response, thereby informing me nonverbally that the process had worked. I recommend that you never let the client know you are checking your work that way. It gives you a covert, nonverbal way of checking to make sure that your integrations have worked before the person leaves your office. Given our historical development in humanistic psychology, most of you want verbal, explicit, conscious kinds of feedback. That is the least useful kind of feedback you can get from your client. Now Id like you to realize that there is nothing that your client will do that you wont anchor. As long as you are going to anchor it, you might as well know what the anchor is. If the client comes in and says, Im really depressed, and you just go umhm, thats as adequate an anchor as touching them on the arm. And since you will be doing that, you might as well know which anchor is which. We recommend to people in the beginning that they practice using kinesthetic anchors for a period of a month. As they do that, they will discover that they are anchoring anyway, constantly, in all representational systems. Most of the time people use anchors in a way that slows down the process of change, because they don’t know what they are anchoring or how they are anchoring. There is another important point. When you say, Do you always anchor the negative thing there was nothing negative about it. Negative is a judgement about experience. It is not experience itself its a judgement specifically made by the persons conscious mind. The experience that Linda had which was unpleasant now serves for her, as well as for everyone else in this room, as a foundation for your learning in the future if you use it that way. If you grew up for the first twenty years of your life without a single unpleasant experience, you would be dull and unable to cope with anything. Its important that you understand that all experiences can serve as a foundation for learning, and its not that they are positive or negative, wanted or unwanted, good or bad.