Swish Pattern

The Swish Pattern was developed by Richard Bandler, and John Grinder back in the early days of NLP. It is very simple, yet extremely effective for quick change work.

The Swish Pattern
1. Identify context. “First identify where you are broken or stuck. Where or when would you like to behave or respond differently than you do now? You could even pick something as simple as nail-biting”

2. Identify cue picture. “Now I want you to identify what you actually see in that situation just before you start doing the behavior you don’t like. Since many people are on “automatic pilot” at that time, it may help to actually do whatever has to precede the behavior, so you can see what that looks like.”

3. Create outcome picture. “Now create a second image of how you would see yourself differently if you had already accomplished the desired change. I want you to keep adjusting this image until you have one that is really attractive to you – one that draws you strongly.” As your subject creates this image, notice his response, to be sure it’s something that he really likes. You want him to have a glow on his face, that tells you that what he’s picturing is really worth going for. If you can’t see evidence that it’s worth going after as you watch him, don’t give it to him.

4. Swish. “Now swish these two pictures. Start with seeing that cue picture, big and bright. Then put a small, dark image of the outcome picture in the lower right corner. The small dark image will grow big and bright and cover the first picture, which will get dim and shrink away as fast as you can say swish. Then blank out the screen, or open your eyes. Swish it again a total of five times. Be sure to blank the screen at the end of each swish.”

5. Test.
a. “Now picture that first image … What happens?” If the swish has been effective, this will be hard to do. The picture will tend to fade away and be replaced by the second image of yourself as you want to be.

b. Another way to test is behavioral: Find a way to create the cues that are represented in your subject’s cue picture. If that picture is of your subject’s own behavior, ask him to actually do it. If that picture is of someone else offering a chocolate or a cigarette, or yelling, then I want you to do that with your subject and observe what she does and how she responds.

If the old behavior is still there when you test, back up and do the swish pattern again. See if you can figure out what you left out, or what else you can do to make this process work.

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