Collapsing anchors is when you fire two different anchors simultaneously.

1. Identify the negative state that the client wishes to counteract.
2. Elicit the state and calibrate the state. Anchor it by a touch on the client's arm.
3. Break state and then test the anchor to ensure it does bring back that state.
4. Break state.
5. Ask the client to find a powerful positive state that would be the right resource to counteract the negative state.
6. Elicit this positive state and calibrate. Anchor it kinesthetically with a touch on the client's other arm. (It is important to anchor the states on different sides of the body.)
7. Break state and test the anchor.
8. Break state.
9. Alternate the anchors - first one, then the other - as a final test and then fire them simultaneously. Watch the client's physiology change. They will typically go into a confusion state. Hold both anchors for about ten seconds and then remove them both, the negative anchor first.
10. Break state
11. Test. Touch the negative anchor and watch the client's physiology. They should not respond to the anchor with the old unresourceful state. They usually report that they feel ok in a neutral state.
12. If there is any negative state remaining, stack another positive state to the resource anchor you set up in step six and then go to step seven. Continue until there is no negative state left that is associated with the original negative anchor.