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I'm Damon Cart.
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The NLP swish pattern is one of the most popular NLP processes because it's so
powerful and so simple. But unfortunately, most NLP trainers,
even the big ones, teach this process incorrectly.
So today I'm going to go into how the process works and why it works so that you
can experience the same kind of transformations I put my clients through.
And make sure you stay tuned to the end of this video because I'm going to show
you how to take this even deeper with some free training.
If you've ever heard of the NLP swish pattern,
regardless if you've ever used it or if you've ever gotten it to work for you,
let me know about your experiences in the comments below.
I'd love to hear from you and I will respond to you.
So let's jump into how to do the swish pattern.
So you want to find some type of behavior that you want to change or get rid of
completely. So this could be any bad habits,
any compulsory type of behavior like overeating or smoking,
just anything you want to stop doing. Biting your nails could be one of them.
And what you want to do is you want to find out what triggers that behavior,
what would makes it happen to begin with. So what triggers it?
What do you see that makes this sort of triggered?
Now somebody will ask, if I'm not very visual, will this still work?
And the truth is, is that we all see images, we all see pictures in our minds.
Some people would prefer to do this and the auditory modality.
And you can do that. I'm really gonna focus on the visual modality here.
The visual is the easiest to work with. So even if you do have,
or if you're more auditory or more kinesthetic,
you can then shift this into the visual by asking yourself, well,
what would it look like if it was an image?
And it's just so much easier to work with the visual modality because you can
see more information than you can here all at once, our feel all at once.
So work with the visual. If you find that you're not so visual,
work on this a little bit to create more of a of a visual sense of this and it
will serve you in other ways.
So cultivate that visual modality as much as you can.
So first we're going to start off with the compulsory image.
So you want to find what triggers the behavior that you don't want to do.
So if it's smoking,
maybe it's some sort of stress and we want to get more specific.
Well what is the stress? What is the trigger that causes stress?
So what do you find if you walk back,
if you think about the times that you have a cigarette, walk it back to,
well what happened just before I felt the need to a sick to have a cigarette.
And then the same goes for overeating or in or nail biting.
What happens right before that seems to trigger this and you should,
you should see an image of this and what you should see it as an image of you
associated into it. And what I mean by associated,
it's as if you're actually there seeing it through your own eyes and if you're
hearing something, you would be hearing it from your own ears.
So it's like you're actually there. Even though it's a past memory,
you're sort of re-experiencing it all over again.
And this is the nature of compulsion or even a phobia.
We feel like we're fully associated into the experience as if it's actually
happening.
And this is why we have a sense of not being able to do anything about it,
being powerless to change it. So we want to find what that image is.
So if it's a stressor, find out, okay,
what do I see that causes me to then feel stressed?
That then makes me feel like I want to smoke or to eat or bite my nails.
You're going to take that image and you're going to get clear about it and it's
usually going to be right there in front of you because it's associated.
Then let that go.
And what you want to do is you want to make an image of your ideal self.
So this is the you who has already solved this issue. Not only that,
this is the you who has solved any problems or any issues you've ever had.
Remember, this is ideal so we can be perfect about this. Now,
here's a really important thing about this image that a lot of people miss.
This ideal self needs to be in no particular context and not doing any
particular behavior.
It's just an image of you and it could be like a green screen behind.
You could just be a white screen behind you.
And this is the image of you who when you look at this image,
you just have a sense that this is the you who has solved any problems,
not just this one.
And you want to make it so compelling that it feels like it kind of wants to
suck you into the picture, but you don't want to go into it.
So how do we make it compelling? Well, in general, not everyone,
but most people, when you make an image brighter, more colorful and bigger,
it tends to be more compelling. Now,
there is a point of diminishing return on this. If you make it too bright,
you make it too colorful and you make it too big,
of course you're not going to feel it as much. It can be too overwhelming.
So find that place where it's just perfect what we call optimal,
not maximum.
So what is the optimal compelling components of this ideal you?
This ideal self, so that when you see it, you,
you feel compelled to go into that image to become that person,
to become that ideal self. That,
why is it important to not be doing any particular behavior and to not be doing,
not ma not have this in any particular context? Well,
if you chose a specific context and you chose a specific, a specific behavior,
when you wish the compulsory image,
you would immediately feel like if it was a behavior that you were swishing to
go and to do that behavior. Now you might be thinking, well that's a good thing,
right?
Like what if I feel compelled to smoke but I want to switch that behavior to
going and exercising? Well that does sound really good,
but there's a problem there.
What if it's the middle of the night and you wake up and you feel like smoking,
you're not going to go exercise. It's just not going to happen.
Most likely it won't happen.
So then you're going to break this pattern and you're not going to follow
through with it. And the same could be for eating.
What if you feel the need to eat in the middle of the night or you know,
if you feel the need to eat in the middle of the night, you're,
it's so much easier to go and eat than it is to go and work out or do any of the
other behaviors, behaviors that you might've switched.
So it needs to be practical.
And the best way to make it more practical is to make this image of yourself,
this ideal image of yourself,
generalize as much as possible to all behaviors. So now you have choice.
Now you have options of many behaviors that you can use because you haven't
chosen a specific one to swish.
So it leaves you open to choosing any behavior that's better than whatever the
compulsory one is. Now the same thing with context. If we,
if you swish an image of your ideal self and that ideal self is at work,
then you can probably break the compulsion at work.
But when you come home and you're in a different context,
it's not going to work. Why? Because this, it wasn't done in that context.
So we leave this open so that it can generalize to all contexts and all
behavior.
Now if you want to try the cool little exercise to see exactly what I mean by
this, imagine something that you do pretty well,
like say it's writing or say it's giving talks or teaching, whatever it is,
something that you do very well. Now,
if you were to imagine yourself doing that,
there probably already is a particular context in which you imagine doing that.
If you're a teacher, you'd probably see yourself in a classroom.
If you are a writer,
you might see yourself at your office writing or in your bedroom writing.
If you're a painter, same thing. You're in an, you're in a, in a studio.
So imagine that.
So imagine seeing yourself doing whatever it is that you do very well and then
sort of cloak the background, cloak everything,
or maybe see yourself on a stage with no that has a black background.
So there's no particular context here. What happens when you do that?
Now you can even stop the video and check that out. But I'll go ahead and I'll,
this is a spoiler alert. When you do that,
you will have a sense that you could do this anywhere. Why?
Because you've removed the context which means this will generalize to anywhere.
Now this actually might not be something you want to do because you might not
want to do particular behaviors in any context,
but in general you'll get that sense of like, Oh wow,
I can do this anywhere and that can be, that can serve you quite well.
So that's why we wanna. I did an image of yourself,
the ideal you with no particular behavior and in no particular context we want
this to generalize most widely as widely as we possibly can.
And I also teach something called transforming yourself.
It's called the self concept model. And this was created by Steve Andreas,
who's also the one who pointed out to me how long it was doing the switch
pattern wrong.
And it was this ideal self with no particular behavior and no particular context
that he realized that there was something very powerful about this that goes
into the identity.
And this is how we create our sense of identity.
Now I created an an entire training on this. Um,
I have videos about it and I will be an opening opening enrollment for this
training in early November. If you want more information about that,
I'll put some in the description below or you can get onto my email list and
you'll be notified when I'm putting, I'm opening enrollment for that training.
I really drill down on the ideal self so hopefully you really understand the
importance of the ideal self, how to optimize it,
how to make it compelling and make sure you leave out the behavior and the
context. So we got the compulsion image and we've got the ideal self.
So this is in front of you. You want to see this, the compulsion image up here.
Use the other hand and you want to see this image of your ideal self down here.
Now there's different ways to do this.
The easiest I've found is what I'm about to show you is you see the compulsion
image here, the ideal self image down here, the ideal self image is small.
The compulsion image is big. And then you as quick as quickly as possible,
swish this image of the ideal self image up and expand it and make it grow.
Make it big,
make it bright and colorful just like you had imagined it and switched down the
compulsion image so that is dark and you can't really even see it anymore.
Alright, so you're gonna swish up like that. Now once you've done that,
you're going to want to practice this about seven to 10 times.
This is another thing you need to be very, very careful on.
A lot of students make this mistake when you're resetting the images to swish it
again.
A big mistake a lot of students make is they switch them back up. Now,
if you do that, what are you doing?
You're creating this yo-yo effect so that when I see the compulsion image and I
go, Ooh, I want whatever that is, a cigarette food, whatever,
and suddenly my ideal image switches up and I go, Oh no, I don't want to.
I don't want that compulsion. I want to be this person.
And then if it automatically switches back up and you see the compulsion image,
then you're going to go for the compulsion. So be very careful.
You switched the ideal image up, you release the images, let them go.
You can blank out the screen entirely.
And then you start back with the compulsion image and the ideal image down here.
And then you switch. And then let the at let everything go. Let it clear out,
reset the images and do that seven to 10 times. So when you do that,
what you're really doing is you're breaking that compulsion pattern.
So when you break that compulsion pattern and you do that with the and the
interference being your ideal self,
now you've got a vision of where you want to go. You have a replacement here.
You're not just trying to not do the behavior that you don't want to do.
You're moving that completely out of the picture and you're giving yourself a
vision to move toward this ideal person who I want to become.
And once you do this and you program then this into yourself,
you won't even have to think about it.
And you will find whatever behaviors that will align to this ideal image of
yourself.
And it doesn't matter where you are in whatever context you will be able to make
this happen. Now,
I want to stress the power of this ideal image of yourself because I use this
all the time. I don't just use this when I do a swish pattern.
I don't just use this when I'm trying to get rid of some sort of compulsory
behavior.
I use this with myself and I use this with my clients all the time because what
most people are lacking is an ideal image or vision of where they want to go.
And without that.
So if you're solving a problem and you're focused on solving the problem,
but you don't have an ideal vision of where you want to go beyond the problem,
chances are you're going to stay stuck in the problem because all of your focus
and attention is on the problem. No, you want to think beyond the problem.
Where do you want to be beyond it? Who? What does that ideal you?
Who you want to become? And then this becomes,
it's almost like a gravitational pull pulling you through the problem so that
you deal with it,
you solve it and you keep moving forward so you can create an ideal image of
yourself without even swishing and just hold that ideal image in front of you.
This is much, much more powerful than a vision board and in fact,
I mean if you think about it,
a vision board is something that stays in the corner of a bedroom or something
like that. This having this vision of yourself,
of who you want to become in front of you at all times,
whether regardless of you're conscious of it or not is going to be far,
far more powerful.
You have a tendency to move in the direction of who you want to become,
no matter where you are and no matter what you're doing.
If you'd like to learn more NLP techniques, I've linked a video to this one.
If you click the corner right here with the CDI,
there's another video called neural linguistic programming techniques you can
use immediately explain other NLP techniques that are very simple and easy to
use and that you can use immediately.
Just one more thing I want to say about the ideal self image is a lot of people
will have role models or people who they model for success or for whatever it is
that they want to create in their lives.
This can actually be problematic because when you model someone else,
if you're not careful,
you can pick up some of the negative aspects of the negative sides to that
person,
pieces of that person or that person's personality that you don't want to pick
up or that aren't useful to you.
So you want to make sure you leave those out and in order to ensure that you do
that, this, it's great to become your own role model,
become your own person, who you're trying to become your ideal self.
It's much easier to do that than trying to become someone else and it will serve
you much, much better in the long run.
For those of you who would like to take this even deeper and you want to learn
more NLP processes and techniques and actually take this to a little more
advanced level. I've created a four part video series.
I've put the link in the description below and I've also put it in the comments
below.
Just click that link and you'll get access to the first video and then you'll
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