Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

arts training, I simply found out what he was focusing on, how he was focusing (the brightness and so
on) in his head, what his beliefs were, and what his physical strategy was—how he specifically used
his body to break the wood.
I practiced over and over his physical movements identically with tremendous emotional intensity,
sending my brain deep sensations of certainty. And all the while, my instructor coached me on my
movements. Barn! I broke through one piece of wood, then two pieces, then three pieces, then four.
What had I done to accomplish this? 1)1 raised my standards and made breaking the wood a must—
something I previously would have accepted as a limitation; 2) I changed my limiting belief about my
ability to do this by changing my emotional state into one of certainty, and 3) I modeled an effective
strategy for producing the result.
This act transformed my sense of power and certainty throughout my whole body. I began to use this
same "wood breaking" sense of certainty to accomplish other things I never thought I could do,
breaking through my procrastination and some of my fears easily. Over the years I continued to use
and reinforce these sensations, and I began to teach them to others, even children, eleven- and
twelve-year-old girls, showing them how to increase their self-esteem by giving them an experience
they didn't think was possible. I eventually started using this as part of my video-based Unlimited
Power seminars, conducted by my franchisees, our Personal Development Consultants around the
world.
Often in 30 minutes or less they are able to help their participants to overcome their fears and learn
how to break through anything that stops them in their lives. After breaking the wood, they learn to
use this experience to give themselves the sense of certainty that is necessary in pursuing anything
they want to achieve in life. It's always fascinating to see a huge man who thinks he can do it with just
brute force get up there and miss, and then watch a woman half his size and muscular tone break
through in a heartbeat because she's developed the certainty in her physiology.
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
ALDOUS HUXLEY
You've got to realize that you must take conscious control of running your own mind. You've got to do
it deliberately; otherwise, you're going to be at the mercy of whatever happens around you. The first
skill you must master is to be able to change your state instantly no matter what the environment, no
matter how scared or frustrated you are. This is one of the foundational skills people develop in my
seminars. They learn how to quickly change their state from being afraid and "knowing" they can't do
something, to knowing they can do it and being able to take effective action. Developing experiences
like this in which you change quickly gives you tremendous power in your life—something you can't
fully appreciate until you really try it for yourself.
The second skill is that you should be able to change state consistently in any environment—maybe in
an environment that used to make you uncomfortable, but in which you can now change your state
time and again, conditioning yourself until you feel good no matter where you are. The third skill, of