Quote Originally Posted by jackvance View Post
Ok I was in a bad mood yesterday sorry. I meant it more as in, this sort of stuff never worked for me. The term anchoring comes from NLP, they deal a lot with this sort of thing.
In the book "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin, he describes a more involved process for using this application of classical conditioning. His approach involves using whatever gets you the feeling you want instead of just a generic stretching/breathing routine. He goes into a lot of depth about how to choose your routine, start out with it being longer and shorten it over time while preserving the feeling. After a few weeks, you'll be able to trigger that response with a minimal amount of stimulation (eg: listening to a particular song). I recommend this process to people who have trouble with conditioning themselves with a simplified approach like the one I outlined in this week's article.

On the other, I'll go so far to say NLP is largely a crock of shit.