Step 3: Re-invention

You are invited to turn the whole process around and give it the meaning you want it to have (reinvention). For this purpose, we will use an NLP technique called SWISHHHH. Every behavior follows the process trigger-response-result. In the NLP swish technique, you can change any behavior with a positive one.

Close you eyes and follow the steps:

• Step 1 – identify the problem (decide on a single behavioral problem);
• Step 2 – Use the trigger (event) that initiated the problem. In the inner screen of your mind recall the image of the event as it happened. Identify a picture with the trigger.
• Step 3 – Think of that uncomfortable moment. Try to see what you saw, listen to what you heard, and feel what you felt.
• Step 4 – If you can see that movie, freeze the moment from where that event begins. If you are not sure, keep playing that movie again and again. Once you have found the picture of the moment from where the negative event started, put a border around it. This is a picture of your regular response or behavior. Make sure you are clear about it.
• Step 5 – Take a small break, think something different than the earlier thought (prefer to stand up and do some stretching).
• Step 6 – Find the Desired state – Think, If you had the power to change, how would you respond to this situation differently? What would you be doing instead of behaving the way you behaved? Now, try to see yourself responding to the situation in the best possible way. The way you would actually like to respond or handle. Capture this image in your mind. This is your new response to that negative emotion. You must make it stronger, add more color, make it clearer, brighter, and larger.
• Step 7 – Break state – Again, think about something different. Take a small walk, do some stretching, or just have tea. This is crucial for the NLP swish pattern steps.
• Step 8 – Lets SWISHHHH

Read these instructions carefully and understand them clearly. Swish is to be executed in one go!

Make your new response image, which is more colorful, bright, clear, and positive a small stamp size image. Try to make it as small as a stamp. Keep the stamp size image in the corner of the old image. Now when you are ready with Swish motion, make that stamp size image bigger and larger until it totally covers the old image. Make a swishhhh sound if necessary.

As the new image becomes bigger, larger, and brighter, the old image in the background becomes lighter, transparent, and vanishes in the end.

Once the new behavior image has completely replaced the old behavior make, soak into the moment and make a white screen in the end.

You have to do this step as quickly as possible.

Old image – Small stamp size new image-grow the new image-old image vanishes- white screen

• Step 9 – Make this new change permanent, the more you repeat, the better is the chance of making this change permanent.

Here are some variations which you can do to the NLP swish pattern steps.

• You can put a new image in one corner, say the left corner and expand the new behavior image from there.
• You can add sound and feeling elements to new behavior to amplify the effect.
• You can change the shape and color of a new image as you feel positive about it. If you find lowlights get the low lighting.
• If you are more of an Auditory person, you can swap the voice. You just need to increase the intensity of the new desired behavior over the old behavior you want to change.
• You can do this on a kinesthetic representation system also, just new behavior must be stronger than the older one.