NLP Swish Pattern will help you to act ideally in a situation which is causing you problems at the moment. If you follow the instructions below, you will discover the cue that currently makes you act with an undesired response and learn how to replace it with a positive and empowering response:

1. Identify the Problem Behavior
Before you use the Swish Pattern, you have to know which problem behavior you are looking to change. This could be one of many common problems – such as you don’t exercise enough, you eat too much crap – or it could be a fear of meeting new people, of speaking in public, or a fear of failing at any particular endeavor. Pick a specific problem you are looking to solve before you move on.

2. Find the Cue
Your current problem behavior is likely to be triggered automatically by a specific stimulus. This means that you don’t consciously choose to act the way you do, you just do. It’s an automatic response – just like when the Doctor bangs your knee with a hammer and your leg shoots up.
There is a certain trigger for you that causes you to act out this problem behavior. If you can identify the trigger, you can change the response.

3. Choose Your Ideal Response
Here, you get to choose the new self image that you will install in your subconscious – the positive response you will generate automatically when the cue occurs from now on. Choose a suitably compelling snapshot of you performing at your best now – a picture that excites and motivates you.

4. Time to Swish
When you’re ready to Swish, imagine the cue for the problem behavior, and then immediately fire your rocket or elastic band and send the new image crashing towards you! As the new image comes hurtling towards you, becoming bigger and richer and bolder – send the old cue image in the opposite direction, armed with its very own rocket launcher, making it darker and smaller and less powerful and flying away from you. Some people like to make an audible “Swish” sound when they do this – I guess it’s the sound you’d imagine these memories to make as they fly past each other.

As the new self image hits you – associate. See it through your own eyes! Imagine every last glorious detail again and make it big and bright and bold and beautiful! Feel all the amazing feelings rush through your veins… And think how good it would be to behave like this from now on. Take a few moments to revel in the wonderful feeling of this new self image. This is key – indulge yourself.

5. Embed the change.
It’s now time to thoroughly embed this change. For this, you need to repeat the last step around 10 times, breaking state quickly in between each one. You’ll find that you’ll do this quicker as you progress.

What is happening here, by the way, is that we are calling up the cue, and you are saying to your brain repeatedly “NOT THIS (old behavior) BUT THIS (new behavior)!! You are using speed, emotions and repetition to literally re-program your brain. Sweet!

So, load up the old cue image – put the new empowering belief as a speck in the corner – push it back as far as it can go and load it up with your rocket or spring – think of the cue – and Swish! Send the old memory to the moon, and bring the new memory crushing home to you! Take a few moments between each attempt to really enjoy the feelings… you should be having fun when you do this. It should feel awesome!

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