I
do not need to go back in my mind to the Record-Searchlight newsroom, silent witness to my days as a cub reporter. The rooms of the newsroom, the two of them, often are with me without bidding when I sit down and set out to write.
The mind, it seems, anchors memories with images. I learned in seminary that the discipline called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) speaks of this phenomenon in terms of its therapeutic applications. If you do not like the feel of a memory anchor, you can swap anchors in a simple mind process.
Basically, you close your eyes and pick a new anchor image.
And it works.
