I have had quite a lot of change happen with using the swish pattern for various change needs, with the swish pattern you see yourself still improve weeks afterwards...use the following format for the purpose statement: TO CHANGE FROM (SINGLE BEHAVIOUR) TO BEING THE PERSON WHO (STATEMENT OF IDENTITY) MORE AND MORE, WITH MORE AND MORE (EMOTIONAL STATES).
The Swish Pattern
1. Identify context
eg. TO CHANGE FROM AVOIDING ATTRACTIVE WOMEN TO BEING THE
PERSON WHO THRIVES ON APPROACHING ATTRACTIVE WOMEN
MORE AND MORE WITH MORE AND MORE EASE, NATURALNESS AND FRIENDLINESS...
· First identify where you are broken or stuck.
· Where or when would you like to behave or respond differently than
you do now?
· What is the negative behaviour?
2. Identify cue picture
· Now identify what you actually see in that situation just before you
start doing the behaviour you don't like.
· In your mind do whatever has to precede the behaviour, so you can
see what that looks like.
· What do you see, hear, or feel just prior to engaging in the unwanted
behaviours?
· What triggers you to feel stuck, unresourceful, or locked into a
habit?
· What sets off the problematic behaviour for you?
· As you identify the trigger, see this picture as an associated image.
3. Create outcome picture
· Now create a second image of how you would see yourself
differently if you had already accomplished the desired change.
· What does the image of your desired self, a self who no longer has
these problems, look like?
· Keep adjusting this image until you have one that is really attractive
to you--one that draws you strongly, only proceed if the image is
really attractive.
· What are all the various qualities and attributes necessary to reach
your desired outcome? Only proceed when you have gotten very
attractive qualities and attributes in your image.
· Step out of the movie and watch it as a spectator. Edit the image
until you feel it pulling on you. Do you feel it yet?
4. Check for objections
· Are all of your "parts" wanting to step into this desired self and
experience it fully?
· If any part of you objects to the new image, what do you notice and
go back to step 3.
5. Link the two representations
· When you have the two images, the cue picture and the outcome
picture, simply create a linkage between the representations so that
the trigger picture or sound leads to the resourceful picture. How
does that feel?
· Start seeing that cue picture, big and bright, close and full colour.
Then put a small, dark, far away, black and white image of the
outcome picture in the lower right corner.
· Have you started with the cue picture and linked it to the future
outcome picture so that it keeps directing you to the most ideal
you?
6. Run the swish process
· As the cue picture grows smaller and darker, and further away,set it
up so that the future outcome picture grows bigger and brighter,
closer and in full colour...and covers the whole screen.
· Do this swish very, very quickly, in just a couple of seconds, say
"Swwiissshhhhh!"
· After this blank out the screen.
7. Repeat this swish process 5 times
· Allow your brain to go quicker and quicker with each swish.
8. Test
· Now, picture the cue image...What happens?
· The cue picture will fade away and be replaced by the second image
of yourself as you want to be.
