so for this video I want to talk about the swish pattern and the reason why I
wanted to talk about this is because i think it's very much an overlooked
pattern
there's a lot of new technology out there and we tend to be dazzled by the
new technology and sometimes overlook some of the past technology that was
created from the past processes this product is an extremely powerful process
and if not done correctly it's rather powerless and I know that when I first
learned that I didn't do it correctly because i think the results that I
wanted from him so I kind of tossed it aside and definitely use it anymore and
talking to people as not going through several trainings and other health
practitioners have told me kind of a similar thing where they just kind of
pushed it to the side and have been really used it since maybe practitioner
level training
well as having a conversation with steve andreas and it so happens that i was
going into i was reading his book transforming yourself and there were
some things about the swish pattern that had written in there that I had
never seen before that I had never heard of and so I actually is an email
conversation i started emailing it back and he was all surprised that out of all
the training that I had done hadn't realized that certain things are had
been using this which been improperly so there's two things that that are really
really important using switch pattern so the very traditional way to go about it
is to have the image of what it is you're doing the habit of thing that you
don't want to do anymore and in the corner having the image of something you
would rather be doing and that's the way i was about the
think that you would rather be doing but that other image is actually the image
you want is the ideal you on with no context and not demonstrating and
behavior the ideal you is already solved this problem so that was amazing
difference of how i learned how I learned it might have been surely not my
teachers but myself and created this idea that I in the ideal picture that I
wanted you need to be doing a behavior that i wanted instead of the other
behavior and that's not the case so beside your picture is supposed to
enlarge as the picture that of the behavior that you're demonstrating or
doing gets smaller and that's the switch you can you can do it from two different
we can do it from many different ways you can have it start in this corner and
then ideal picture enlarges of blocks out the picture of the behavior that of
that you don't want to do anymore you can have to start over here that's fine
and make it bigger or you can have it were one is on top of the other and the
other one comes up one thing that I do that I and I do for myself because I
want to make it really dramatic and I haven't really seen this anywhere else
is but I actually take the picture of don't want and I have the picture of
what I do one flying across the room and come back like a slingshot and then hit
the picture of what I don't want to be doing and have that picture shatter into
a million pieces and sometimes I imagine a really dramatic like winning the star
wars whatever Skywalker shoots the whatever those are lasers into the death
star explodes
sometimes I get really dramatic about it like that because it entertains the line
so again you take the picture of what the behavior is that you're doing that
you don't want to do and you then have it shattered are blocked out or move
down and you shouldn't have an image of your ideal self disassociated your ideal
self who has already solved this problem and
and you're some sort of moved on beyond it what a lot of people do is they will
have the behavior that they don't want to say it's smoking and then they will
have the picture move down and the picture of them doing some other
behavior besides smoking
why do we not want to do that why do we want to have this image of our ideal
self with no context and no behavior why is this a better way to do it because it
will generalize to more areas of your life and like most likely all areas of
your life if you're but if you're doing a specific behavior even if it's a good
behavior then when you're not doing that specific behavior you're more likely to
pick up that cigarette if we're using a cigarette example so persons smoking
then I want to smoke they want to exercise
ok so we do this which pattern with that and suddenly they go from smoking to
exercise and we do this several times until every time to think about smoking
an image of exercise done exercising pops up the problem with that is you
can't exercise 24 hours a day so when you're not exercising that opens your
backup to smoking so we want if you are a smoker then you want and a picture of
yourself
the ideal you however that looks and no particular context doing no behavior in
particular just make standing there or sitting or what have you and not smoking
of course and this is the ideal and you who has conquered this already and so
this will more likely generalize to all areas of your life so that if you quit
smoking you quit for good and never said anything about smoking you certainly get
this image of you want to be and that propels you toward that image so that's
that's the one problem that a lot of people make whatever they
using the switch pattern trading one for the other and it's fine in some cases
but if you're just trading one for the other
more than likely when you're not doing that other behavior the more positive
warn you could easily revert back to doing the behavior that you don't want
to do for example also i wanted i was already in good shape but i wanted to be
an even better shape so I imagines been doing the things that keep me from being
in good shape like eating food that I should not be eating so I would put that
as my picture and then i will take an image of me actually see myself in a
mirror so that's the disassociated image and having the body exactly the body
that I wanted and so I would have the picture of me would with the behavior
that i didn't want eating things that I wasn't supposed to and then I would have
this picture of myself come and smash into and shattering and I would do this
over and over and this really helped me get that under control and like i said i
was already in good shape but I took it was able to get that extra level of what
is exactly what I want my body to look like it was very effective and very
powerful
the other problem that a lot of people make when they're doing the switch
pattern especially if they're using the one we're kind of moving the images of
her down
what happens is a lot of people they will once you complete the switch
pundits wish you want to pause and then reset the pictures when you go to do it
again because you need to do it over and over to make sure it works with a lot of
people do and see if you're using the negative picture on top and the positive
picture here and you're moving them like that one a lot of you will tend to do is
when they reset them they make it come right back up so you get this yo-yo kind
of thing so if you're doing it right
you have the negative picture of here you have a positive picture here this
one goes down this one comes up and gets much bigger and then you drop it
take a moment to breath maybe break state then come back and reset the
pictures which you don't want to do is you don't want to reset the pictures
bringing the negative one backup and the positive one back down because all
you're doing there's yo-yoing it so when you think of doing whatever it is that
behavior that you don't want to do
yes you get the positive one but then it goes back as well and get this kind of
yo thing going on it can actually create confusion so
again- picture goes down positive picture goes up break state let go and
then you're going to reset them make sure you're not pulling the negative
picture from the bottom and pushing the positive picture down just drop it all
and then put your negative picture very positive picture and do it again or
again if you're using the moving picture from the side and making a bigger same
thing avoid the yo-yo effect in other words so just to recap make sure that
when you're swishing it's a picture the positive picture is a picture of it the
ideal you and no particular context are very general context and doing no
particular behavior
secondly avoid the yo-yo effect make sure that your swishing breaking state
and your resetting the pictures without moving them back from where they came
from
swish break stay with the pictures back switch breaks state of the pictures back
do those two things and the switch battery will become one of the most
powerful things most powerful processes you probably will ever use when it comes
to overcoming habitual behavior this not very different