Hi Anne, my intention for this session is to use the swish! technique to help you install a desired state or behaviour to replace an undesired state or behaviour.
Swish! is a fast and effective technique to replace problem behaviours or toxic states with productive behaviours or resourceful states.
The swish! technique creates momentum towards a compelling future through creative visualisation.
Whenever the trigger appears, swish! instantly directs your mind to the productive behaviour or resourceful state.
This session will take about 20 minutes.
Elicit the undesired state or behaviour and create a picture
Now Anne, how do you know that it is time to feel nervous?
I feel nervous whenever I have to speak in front of a large audience.
I know I am nervous when my body feels cold, my palms sweat, my breathing is fast and shallow, my heart is racing, my speech is stuttering as if I have lost control of my mouth. I will grit my teeth and bite my lips.
When you think of feeling nervous, do you have a picture?
See this picture through your own eyes, hear with your own ears. Make what you see bigger, clearer, brighter, turn up the volume of the sounds your hear.
Freeze this picture in your mind and we will call this the Undesired Picture.
Break state
What did you have for breakfast this morning?
Elicit the desired picture and create a picture of the type of person the client would like to be.
Now Anne, how would you like to feel instead when you have to speak in front of a large audience, in the absence of feeling nervous.
I would like to feel confident.
When you think of feeling confident, do you have a picture?
When you have the picture, nod your head.
See yourself inside this picture and feel that you are now more confident.
With your hands, tell me the size of this picture. Step out of the picture and see your body in the picture.
Enjoy the picture and lock it in as the Desired Picture.
Break state
What will you be having dinner tonight?
The hand demonstration preframe
In a moment, I would be asking you to bring up the Undesired Picture.
You would place a postage stamp sized version of the Desired Picture in bottom left hand corner.
When I say swish! simultaneously have the Desired Picture explode up, big and bright in full technicolour into full view so that it covers the entire Undesired Picture.
Have the Undesired Picture shrink to postage stamp size or disappear as quickly as possible.
Swish!
Now Anne, when you are ready, bring back the Undesired Picture.
In the lower left corner insert a small, dark picture of the Desired Picture.
Ensure that the pictures are ready and in place.
Swish!
Clear the screen.
Now Anne, when you are ready, bring back the Undesired Picture.
In the lower left corner insert a small, dark picture of the Desired Picture.
Ensure that the pictures are ready and in place.
Swish!
Clear the screen.
Now Anne, when you are ready, bring back the Undesired Picture.
In the lower left corner insert a small, dark picture of the Desired Picture.
Ensure that the pictures are ready and in place.
Swish!
Clear the screen.
(Repeat the swish! pattern until it is impossible for the client to bring back the Undesired Picture. This could take 7 to 14 repetitions.)
Test and future pace
Anne, think of the next time you are required to speak in front of a large audience. The image of a confident you should instantly flood the picture.
When you have completed the swish! pattern successfully, your mind will automatically recall your perfect image of yourself whenever the trigger appears
This memory will motivate you to stop the problem behavior and replace it with a productive one.
(Otherwise repeat the swish! manoeuvre another 7 times.)
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