The new commercial you are saying bad things about to your friend, the way a lady across the room plays with her hair, in song texts like:"We all live in a yellow...", or the sound that your mail program makes when you get a new email.

They are there all the time, for the simple reason that they are the reason why our brain works the way it does work.

The question is: How can you use "free floating anchors" as John LaValle calls them?

How can you practice the NLP(tm) technique of Anchoring in everyday life?

Easily.

E.g.: You are having a conversation with a friend via Skype. You talk about this and that, suddenly your friend bursts into laughter about a think you said that you didn't even intent to be funny.

There is anchor created right there, by the way you said it, the way you spelled it, the way you took breaks in between the phrases.

You can test it by trying to reuse it. Not to often of course, as you might collapse it if over doing it , but you can reuse it over and over easily.

Try it out!