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This pattern is also known as "Renewing The Past".

1. The client identifies an issue that has been a recurring source of trouble. They think of a typical situation in which they experience that unresourceful state and name the feeling.
2. Calibrate the state and anchor it kinesthetically. Hold the negative anchor while the client traces the feeling back into the past until they come to the first significant example or examples of the feeling (not necessarily the situation that evoked the feeling).
3. Release the anchor, break state and bring the client fully back into the present. Let them talk about the earlier situation and feeling that they have identified.
4. Ask the client what they needed back then. Write the exact words down. These are auditory anchors for powerful resource states. The resources must be within the person and be under their control. (For example, "X should have been more supportive" is not a resource but a requirement that is out of the client's control.)
5. Elicit the resource state and anchor it kinesthetically in a different place. If more than one resource is necessary, state the anchors. Test the anchor.
6. Hold the positive anchor and invite the client the think back to the initial negative experience. When they do, add the negative anchor. This collapses the anchors. Wait while the client processes the two states together. Hold both anchors for at least ten seconds. The resulting state will be different from both the initial states. There will be changes in the client's physiology.
7. Break state.
8. Test. Ask the client to go back to the initial problem situation and notice how they feel. Ask them what has changed.
9. Future pace. Ask the client to imagine a future situation where they might have expected to be in a similar unresourceful state. Ask them to imagine going through it with the new resources and to notice the difference that makes.