NLP Techniques - Swish

Swish can be used to change a simple behaviour or a future state, for example feeling good when going on stage to present. Its really a more formalised way of doing a sub modality change and linking it to a point in the future.

Swish - What's important

The first cue picture will become a trigger for the new behavior, so it needs to in a sequence that the client has to go through to achieve the old behaviour.

Take time making the outcome picture really motivating.

When doing Swish as a visual technique it needs to be done quickly, however the determining factor is the speed your client processes visual information - watch them to see how fast they go.

Swish - The technique

This can be used to change almost anything e.g. stopping smoking, changing state etc. There are different versions for different representational systems.

Identify context:

Ask the client what he/she wants to change?

Identify first cue picture:

Identify what you see just before the behavior they you want to change. See it through your own eyes (associated).

Create outcome picture:

Now create a picture after the desired change. See it through someone else's eyes (dissociated).

Play with the submodalities. Make the picture more exciting.

Swish:

See the first cue picture clear and bright

Put a small dark image of the outcome picture in the bottom right hand corner

Fast - Grow the outcome picture to replace the cue picture as the cue picture shrinks way over the horizon

Repeat three times. Or as many times as your client needs to make the change automatic.

Test:

If you think of the first picture it should immediately change.

Does it work in practice?

Play with the sub-modalities.