Michael, Have you considered using the verbal label that the exemplar (or client) calls the state you are anchoring?  Words, if used carefully with appropriate contextual markers, provide an easily remembered access anchor.  And it all seems very natural to the person you are working with.  In my experience, it is easiest to get reliable access using words as anchors if you anchor the state as you normally would to stabilize the state (any place you find convenient for the moment), then ask the client what he or she calls this state -- triggering the anchor you just set.  After a short Transderivational Search, they will usually give you a key word or two.  If you then repeat that word back to them, matching their analog as you say it, the word becomes a redundant anchor for the state.  You can write the word down on paper for future reference and include any notes you need to remember the analog that went with it.  Be certain to use your sensory acuity to calibrate their full body when you ask them what they call the state.  You need to make sure that they do not change states on you as they do the transderivational search to give the state a label.  If they do, just say something like, "no, not that state, what do you call this state?” and then fire the physical anchor you set previously.  Also, beware of considering their verbal label as content.  If you hallucinate what that label means rather than using it simply as a stimulus to re-access the original state you run the risk of getting seriously lost in your own projections.  So keep in mind the distinction between process and content if you adopt this procedure. Good luck to you, Michael Keith W Fail Austin, Texas keith_fail@hotmail.com