Day 32: The Swish

This is something I used today to help someone stop smoking. It is useful for anything but it is best to not use it for trauma. It is called The Swish and is a common NLP technique.
Start by having a picture or experience with you associated/looking out of your own eyes, that represents something you want to change - a habit or a feeling. For example, a smoker might see their hands in front of them and others smoking opposite them. Next, shrink that image down and have a full screen picture in your mind of yourself dissociated; ie you seeing yourself in a photo/picture with your desired outcome, ie relaxed and happy being with others who smoke and not wanting a cigarette. Make the image powerful by changing the details, ie light and dark, close and far, until it is the most positive it can be. Then, shrink this image down to the right corner and bring back the problem image. Then, repeating this seven times, SWISH the positive picture from the bottom right corner to take over the screen or what you see. The swish must be done very fast and take only a second or two each time you swish. When you've finished, be positive and trust. Many smokers can stop purely from doing this! Others may need more in-depth processes such as Time Line Therapy - one of the most powerful techniques to change quickly and easily.

Smart Goals and Prosperity Beliefs

Write down what you want. This is a powerful way to help you achieve your goals – after all, without a target, it is very difficult to hit it! Try making them SMART GOALS:

S specific
simple

M measurable
meaningful

A all areas of life
as if now

R realistic
responsible

T timed
toward what you want

For example, it’s best not to say, ‘I want more money’; rather, it’s more effective to say ’It is now the 30th of June and I have a thousand pounds in my bank account…or more’ – setting an exact time and amount, even if it is a million pounds!

It is very important, when goal-setting, to be specific. Also, if giving up smoking, saying ‘I am now a non-smoker’ is ok although ‘I am healthy’ is perhaps more powerful. Ex-smokers soon think of themselves not as non-smokers but just as normal or healthy.

Now, for Prosperity Beliefs:
1. The Universe is Abundant
2. The universe wants me to prosper
3. All prosperity begins with an idea and the universe responds.
4. Money is an abstraction (of work)
5. Money has no intelligence of its own (so money responds to my instructions to it)
6. Money demands attention on money.

“All prosperity is first produced by the human mind. All business endeavours are built on ideas. Before the business opened its doors, before there was ANY money flowing into the business there was an idea. Any endeavour begins in the mind. So, all prosperity begins in the mind. If that is the case, then working harder will not produce more money, nor will working more hours produce more money. Increasing prosperity requires changing your thought processes so that they focus on prosperous thoughts. Money, and its flow into a person’s life, are a direct result of the nature of the thoughts in a person’s mind.” Tad James, M.S. Ph.D., extracted from The Secret Of Creating Your Future published by Advanced Neuro Dynamics