I would then have the person identify a time when they were "at the top of their game," or "experiencing flow." {If such an experience were not available, I would instruct them to either imagine what such at time would be like, or have them recall someone else who does experience such times and associate into that imagined experience.] With a sports activity being primarily kinesthetic, I would intersperse my verbal communication with kinesthetic predicates. I would probably also tend to speak in a slower, more deliberate manner with deeper tones. I would instruct the person to fully associate into that time, particularly the feelings that they had as they were performing their best. As they provided non-verbal cues that they were fully engaged and reaching the apex of the experience, I would kinesthetically anchor their response. And then, just for fun, I would elicit some of the submodalities of that experience (comparing them to the average experience), and experiment to find if altering any of them enhance the experience for the client even further. If the experience should be enhanced, I would also anchor that response, stacking it upon the first anchor.

I would have the person then shake off the "flow" experience with some small talk and distractions about things in current sensory experience. Then I would find out what in external sensory experience lets the person know that they are about to engage in their sport. My purpose would be to use that as the trigger for firing off the feeling of "flow" in their activity. I would then have the person imagine the next time that they were about to engage in their sport. I would instruct them to imagine experiencing the external trigger that indicates that they are about to engage in the activity and, as they do so, I would fire the stacked anchor, at the same time embedding in my verbal communication the submodalities of the enhanced experience (e.g., "feeling your skin tingling," "hearing nothing but your own voice deeply booming 'Yes!'," etc.). I would watch for non-verbal signs that they have reassociated into the experience of "flow" for their sport.

I would repeat this process, firing the anchor and verbal support, as they imagine beginning to engage in their sport at several discrete times out into the future. Each time interrupting the experience with a neutral experience. I would then have them comfortably imagine the next time that they are about to engage in the activity, and, without firing the anchor, watch for non-verbal indications that the feelings of "flow" have been associated with the trigger, or the thought of beginning their sports activity.