Today I'd like to explain to you an NLP pattern
called "Swish Pattern"
"Swish Pattern" is quite an old NLP pattern now
it's been replaced by a lot of different patterns
for getting results and changes
however it's still a very useful pattern to consider
and what I'm gonna explain in this short video
is how to do it for yourself
so, you use the "Swish Pattern" for a minor behaviour you'd like to change
maybe you bite your nails too much
you eat too much of a certain type of food
or even a state that you experience
that you'd like to have a different experience in
as I say, it's a very easy pattern for self application
the first thing you do, step number one
is to think of the behaviour
or the state you'd like to change
and as you think of it, it's quite important
that you think of it as if you were currently doing it
in NLP that is called "associate to the experience"
so, for example, if it's nail biting, knuckle cracking
to really get to that time when you do this experience
and as you do it, visually, back the experience up
until the trigger point
and what the trigger point is, is the cue to start the behaviour
it's the very very first thing
now in the original swish written up in one of the NLP books
the trigger point is often an external thing
what is it you looking at external to you
more often they're not what you find with these types of behaviours
is actually the trigger is inside
not always but it can be something you feel
so, if it is for example something you feel
be very clear, what it is you are feeling at that moment
and what does it correspond with outside
and then freeze frame
so you are associated to the image
you feel what you feeling
and you are fully aware of any sounds that are present
and then you freeze frame
push that to one side
next step
shake it off
and think about what is it that you'd like to do instead
and it's very important in the swish when you think about what it is you'd like to do instead
that you stay within the same frame
meaning, at the trigger point
nothing that different happens
you are just doing something different within the frame
what does this mean?
if it's knuckle ckracking
perhaps at this trigger
you feel or something it's just outside of you
or maybe something you hear
rather than crack your knukcles
you may just flex your knuckles
if it's nail biting, rather than nail biting
when you have this trigger
you will flex your fingers or do something with your hands
so it's not like we doing anything that different
we staying within the same frame
the pattern runs
the neuro linguistic program is very similar
but it just doesn't include what was the thing you'd like to change
so, hypothetically what we are going to do here
on the knuckle cracking
this client wants to flex his or her hands
and what they do, they make a picture
of themselves
flexing their hands
and as they do so they will see themselves in this picture
meaning, in the NLP lingo
this is a dissociated image, and as they see themselves in this picture
they can look at themselves having a lot of other things as well
if they like
but it's very important
that the pattern they see in there or the process they see in there
is this
at the trigger point
freeze-frame that
and then what they do
shrinking very small and in the swish that I do
it's called the slingshot swish
or actually this ocean swish if you wanna call it that
they're gonna put it far out there on the horizon
so the picture is way out there on the horizon
break state
get back the first picture
associate to it, feel it
and then as you feel the trigger
you swish this picture out
and the other one comes swishing in
break state
feel the trigger see what you're seeing
one swishes out, the other swishes in
and you do this three or four times
test
associate to that trigger, experience that trigger
is it an external cue?
or something you feel inside
and then you notice what happens
in most cases after four swishes
people realize they're having a different response
if there's anything left of the old behaviour
swish it few more times
until you content the swish has been done
then running through in your mind
without swish, this is called the future pace
and what you realize is
you've created a new behaviour in yourself
or created a new neuro linguistic programme
so that's the "Swish pattern"
there are variations on it but this is the one I like to do
as I say, if there's an internal trigger
I would use that internal trigger as I swish
I find it work through effectively
some people swish from the corner up
and that's quite an effective one
as I said i like to do this one because it uses more submodalities
what I would say now is
enjoy the change