NLP Email Training 27

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“Thoughts are like steps. They lead up and down.”
Ernst Ferstl

Swish technique

The Swish is an intervention technique invented by Richard Bandler and is a very effective NLP method. In a Swish, two inner images (two visual representations) are exchanged very quickly. Swish is an onomatopoeic fantasy word in English (to swish), which can best be translated into German as “zischen.” A hissing sound occurs when two things move quickly past each other. This very idea is activated in the Swish technique: one image quickly moves away from a place and another image hisses to that place. (The whole thing takes maybe two seconds). In the standard Swish, the submodalities: size, brightness, and distance are used. This works very well in many cases. Simply described: The target image becomes larger, brighter, and comes closer. The unwanted image becomes smaller, darker, and moves away.

Exercise for this week

1. Topic/Context: Find an unwanted behavior or an unwanted reaction.

2. Triggering image: Associated. What directly precedes the unwanted behavior? There should be a somewhat uncomfortable feeling involved.

3. Creation of a target image: Dissociated. How can someone from the outside recognize that you are a person for whom ... there is no problem, that you have the qualities and resources to respond in the desired way? The image should emanate great attraction.

4. Swish: Now perform the Swish with both images. Start by seeing the triggering image of the context large and bright. Then place a small dark image of the target idea in the lower right corner. The small dark image will grow larger and completely cover the first image, which will simultaneously fade and shrink as quickly as you can say “Swish.”

5. Repeat the Swish at least 7 times.

6. Test: Now imagine the first image, what happens? This will be difficult if the Swish has worked. Another testing option is to test the behavior in reality.

Supplementary Links

Audio:
The Swish >>>
The process of the Swish technique is explained here.

Swish exercise >>>
Stephan guides you through the Swish technique in this audio file.

Text:
Standard Swish and other Swish forms >>>
As a deepening, you can read more about the standard Swish here and get to know other Swish forms.

Metaphor of the Week

Fear?
A small child befriends a little mouse, which soon becomes very trusting. Eventually, it can take the mouse in its hand and feed it. One day, it takes it outside in its pocket to play.

Suddenly, a cat appears and the child is greatly startled, for it has learned: “Cats eat mice.” It becomes very afraid and runs away. Faster and further away. But the cat seems to grow larger and larger and the child runs and runs as fast as it can – but the cat becomes as big as a house. The child is out of breath and completely desperate.

Then it hears a quiet voice. It looks around and discovers the mouse, which stretches its head out of the pocket and calls: “Stop, you have to turn around and look it in the eyes, run towards it and then it will get smaller again!”

Then the child first stops, turns around, and looks the cat in the eyes and then runs towards it. And indeed … the cat gets smaller. It shrinks until it is back to its normal size and rubs against the child's legs purring. Of course, someone could say now that the mouse has it easy – it was certainly safe in the pocket. But the child probably didn't think about that at that moment.

Do you sometimes run away from something?

Book Recommendation

Fear as a resource and disturbance
Authors: Frank-M. Stämmler & Rolf Merten

Short Description:
An analysis of fear in times of far-reaching social and political upheaval. The title fear is not only a problem but also a good advisor – this fundamental idea is the basis of the present book. While an increasing number of people suffer from anxiety disorders today, the number of those who seem to have lost their ability to use fear as an important indication of danger and ethical action sensibly is also growing.

Here the book can be ordered: Now on Amazon

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