When using NLP sales techniques it is vitally important to maintain a physiology of excellence. But what about those days where your just down on yourself. Maybe you have some not so positive inner dialog which is holding you back. These are the days when modeling a simple gesture could be your best best. What is this gesture. This simple action is one that is used intuitively when people have just done something incredible.

We’ll get into the actual mechanics of the gesture in just a minute. First a little background as to how this was discovered and what it really means. In NLP there is a technique called a pattern interrupt. Of course it sounds complicated but really its quite simple. A pattern interrupt occurs any time you’re doing something routine and that routine is interrupted. Lets say your driving to your office. You’re thinking about what you need to get done that day. Running the same pattern you do every morning. Then out of no where a tree crashes down in front of you. This is where the magic of a pattern interrupt occurs. Your normal routine has been interrupted and you have the choice about how to react to the situation.

What about deciding that you are the luckiest person alive. Had you been a few minutes faster that tree could have ended up on top of you and your car. This must be your lucky day.

You notice it’s at that time of the pattern interrupt that you can make changes as to where your thoughts are going. At the time of the pattern interrupt, your unconscious mind is looking for instruction from you.

“I need some instructions,” is what your unconscious is saying to you.

Like driving, most of your life is spent on autopilot. The unconscious mind runs its programs and patterns only looking for guidance when a decision needs to be made.

Ask yourself, what do people do when they accomplish something. Either they throw their fists in the air, or they pull them back into their sides. You’ve seen it before. Everyone uses the fist pump instinctively. Reading an article in science daily, I discovered that even blind people use the fist pump. Pretty amazing that its so ingrained in our culture. It doesn’t actually matter which particular move you make, fists up or pulled into the sides. Either one will instantly give you the feeling that you’re successful at whatever doing. Instant winners state.

I use this pattern interrupt nlp technique all the time. Especially when I get frustrated at some sales presentation I’m working on. When I’m just burning with frustration I’ll throw my fists in the air and shout “Yyeeessss!” It works every time. That gesture makes me feel like I just accomplished whatever it is I am working on. I’ve even done it in front of other people by acting like I’m stretching and screaming “Yeeaaahh” inside my head.

When I first learned this technique I thought everyone would think I had finally lost it. The exact opposite occurred. I’d do this technique and everyone around me would want to know what was so exciting. People are so anchored with this gesture that they all wanted to join in on my success.

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