Richard Bandler's Original Version, The SWISH pattern from NLP!

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<lwinmorgan@s...> wrote:

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> >What is funny is I went to

> google to get it, and the first 5 I ready WERE INCORRECT!

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> Did you google <Bandler swish> or <Using your brain for a

change.> which was the book that containted this pattern?

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> http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/NLP/swish13.htm

 

(Here Richard Bandler's SWISH. Go to the above www to find the rest

of the article. )

 

....What do you see just before you bite your nails?

Jack: I don't know. I don't usually realize I'm doing it until

I've done it for a while.

That's true of most habits. You're on " automatic pilot, " and

later on, when it's too late to do anything about it, you notice it

and feel bad. Do you know when or where you typically bite your

nails?

Jack: It's usually when I'm reading a book or watching a movie.

OK. I want you to imagine that you're watching a movie, and

actually bring one of your hands up as if you were going to bite

your nails. I want you to notice what you see as your hand comes up,

knowing that you're about to bite your nails.

Jack: OK. I can see what my hand looks like as it comes up.

Good. We'll use that picture in a few minutes, but just set it

aside for now. We need to get another picture first. Jack, if you no

longer bit your nails, how would you see yourself as being

different? I don't mean just that you would see yourself with longer

fingernails. What would be the value of changing this habit? What

difference would it make to you as a person? What would it mean

about you? I don't want you to tell me the answers; I want you to

answer by creating a picture of the you that you would be if you no

longer had this habit.

Jack: OK. I've got it.

Now I want you to get that first picture of your hand coming

up, and make it big and bright, . . . and in the lower right corner

of that picture put a small, dark image of how you would see

yourself differently if you no longer had this habit. . . .

Now I want you to do what I call " the swish. " I want you to

make the small dark image quickly get bigger and brighter until it

covers the old picture of your hand, which will simultaneously get

dim and shrink. I want you to do this really fast, in less than a

second. As soon as you've " swished " these images, either blank the

screen completely, or open your eyes and look around. Then go back

inside and do it again, starting with that big bright picture of

your hand coming up, and the small dark image of yourself in the

corner. Do it a total of five times. Be sure to blank the screen or

open your eyes at the end each time you do it. . . .

Now it's time to test. Jack, make that big bright image of your

hand coming up and tell me what happens. . . .

Jack: Well, it's hard to hold it there. It fades out, and that

other picture comes in.

The swish pattern directionalizes the brain. Human beings have

a tendency to avoid unpleasantness and move towards pleasantness.

First there is a big bright image of the cue for the behavior that

he doesn't like. As that picture fades and shrinks, the

unpleasantness diminishes. As the pleasant image gets bigger and

brighter, it draws him toward it. It literally sets up a direction

for his mind to go: " from here, go there. " When you directionalize

your mind, your behavior has a very strong tendency to go in the

same direction.

Jack, I want you to do something else. Bring your hand up to

your mouth the way you did when you bit your nails. (Jack brings his

hand up. Just before it reaches his mouth, it stops and then lowers

about half an inch.)

Well, what happened?...