How you can use the Swish

(A) Preparation & set-up

(1/.Unwanted feeling i.e. What do you NOT want? Identify the thought and/or feeling that you’d like to replace. (2/.Trigger? What triggers the unwanted feeling i.e. what do you see or imagine seeing just before you feel bad? (3/.Check re practical action! This is very important. The Swish must only be used where the situation does not require practical action. For example, if you have run up debts and are worried by these you could use the Swish to stop feeling bad – but unless you take practical action rather than just use the Swish you would end up in serious financial difficulty. (4/.How do you want to feel instead? Select your replacement feeling – the one you want the current trigger to evoke. Spend a while reliving this pleasant or empowering moment to make the memory richer. Make sure your final version is a dissociated image (i.e. you can ‘see’; yourself in the image/situation/memory) (B) Running the technique

1/. Think of the Trigger image and… 2/.Place a tiny version of the Replacement image somewhere on the Trigger image and 3/. Instantly have the Replacement image get bigger and clearer – as the Trigger image disappears behind it 4/. 'Break state’ briefly – i.e. look around you, check your watch, etc. That’s Round 1. You need to do about 5-7 Rounds to wire-in the new programme. Do it quicker each time e.g. first round in no more than 5 seconds then 4, 3, 2, and 1 seconds and a final two or three Rounds at 1 second each. There’s no need to try to get your images to change perfectly – just quickly. Aim for speed rather than accuracy. (C) Test it

Having done your 5-7 Rounds ‘change state‘ by doing something else for a couple of minutes. Now discover what happens when you try to recall the Trigger image (i.e. the original negative image). If it’s difficult to bring back – or if the negative feeling is no longer evoked by it – you’re done. If it does come back do another 2-4 Rounds If that doesn’t work find a better and more powerful positive Replacement image – and then run the whole Swish from the beginning. And if that doesn’t work it could be that the Trigger is too powerful for the Swish technique – that’s why we have so many techniques, and more in-depth processes, in NLP.

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