are feeling very happy when you hear the song again, that connection will
become stronger.
Eventually, you will create a very strong connection between the song
and the feeling of happiness. At that point, anytime you hear the song you
will automatically find yourself feeling happy. That’s what happens with
your favorite songs and that’s great!
However, this process also works with negative emotions. Imagine that
you have a stressful experience in English class. Maybe the teacher corrects
one of your errors when you are speaking and you feel embarrassed. Now
imagine that you continue to have a series of negative emotional
experiences in English classes. You frequently feel bored, nervous and
stressed while learning and using English.
Eventually, a strong connection forms between English and the negative
emotions. This is a negative anchor. Once this is formed, whenever you try
to use English you will automatically begin to feel more nervous and
stressed. This is why many “advanced” English learners still have so much
trouble when trying to speak.
Sadly, most learners now have powerful negative anchors connected to
their English speaking. The good news is that negative anchors can be
broken and reprogrammed. This, in fact, is your first step towards speaking
English powerfully.
Instead of feeling nervous, imagine if you suddenly and automatically
felt powerful every time you spoke English? What if you automatically felt
more excited every time you learned English? This change alone would
improve your speaking.
Through the power of anchoring, you can indeed connect these powerful
emotions to English. The secret to breaking a negative anchor and creating
a new positive one is intensity. The more powerful an emotion is felt (while
using English), the faster and deeper the connection.
So, to create a strong positive anchor for English requires a few steps.
First, you must create a very intense positive emotion. Most people
believe that emotions are something that happen to them, but in fact, we
