Modified Self-Hypnosis Exercises

Swish Pattern Modified (using ehe principles, ideas and is direction based)

Step 1. Choose target behavior you want to change.

Step 2. Write a minimum of four different ways you could respond, which could be useful in those situations. 

Step 3. Mentally go through those different ways you could respond making sure they are as useful as you thought.

Step 4. Create a mental image or movie of behavior you want to change, start at the beginning, but instead of going through it put the number of different responses you picked as small boxes in the middle of it.

Step 5. Put the different ways you could respond one at a time in the boxes.

Step 6. As you make the boxes bigger until they completely consume the old behavior, imagine a swish sound and then say to yourself the time is now.

Step 7. Future pace by going though future situations where the old behavior would have occurred and make sure the choices occur instead of old behavior. The go completely through it if it has generalized.

Step 8. If it has generalized, then go through 5 more similar examples of where this behavior would have occurred in the future. If not, then repeat the exercise, but a little faster.

Step 9. Adjust as needed.

I hope you all find this modified swish pattern useful. I have found it to be much more useful than the original swish pattern.

Modified Visual-Kinesthic disassociation (Also known as the fast phobia cure) with redirection and propulsion system

Note: This is useful for situations where someone has a highly charged memory, which henders them from making changes using normal methods. There are many other ways one can do the same work. However, I have found this technique to be very useful, because it works quickly and also deals with the issue.

Imagine a cellphone, on that cellphone I want you to imagine (Insert emmotionally charged memory here), but stop it before it plays.

Hold it right there and we will come back to it after we do a couple of things.

Imagine how you would like to respond in a situation, like that instead of the way you were. (i.e what else could you do that would be useful)

Note: Sometimes they might need a bit of help with comming up with this part. This comes to the next part which will occur in both circumstance. However, if they need help comming up with something. Then after this next part have them think about it again.

Imagine a time when you are creative, if that feeling were a color, then what would it be. (write this down or remember it).

Imagine a time when you are learning something and having fun, if this were a color, then what would it be. (write this down or remember it).

Now, lets go back to the cellphone, but first before you play the memory, I want you to play it three times faster than it would normally happen and repeat three times. (This does a few things and I wonder if you can figure out all of those things it does).

Now, I want you to go to the begining of that memory you are imagining on a cell phon(e. Before you play it this time I want you to add (The first color) and repeat three times. (Then repeat this again for the second color).

Now, make the memory its normal size and tell me what changes do you notice so far.

Note: They should already be repsonding differently and doing something differently in said memory. However, sometimes it takes adding a bit more other things in with it to break the triggers that are associated with said memory. I have found that usually three feelings repeated three to four times and sometimes repeating that process has been the norm for this exercise. Generally speaking, this exercise does not take long and and help make it a lot easier to help them make some changes faster than some techniques, which will use up a whole session. After you have achieved this result continue on.

Now, think of five different times when you would have had that issue and tell me how are they different and make sure to do them in their full size. (Ecology check and generalizing many of the changes made so far).

(During this part many times no additional work is needed. However, I suggest generalzing the changes even more. If more changes are needed, then make adjustments. You could use things like the swish pattern, repeat the overlapping technique to help make even more changes to this situation and so on.)

Now, think about five times in the future when this issues might have occured before we made these changes and notice how they have changed.

(Do induction or just have them close their eyes or concentrate. If you did everything above as written their state of mind will already be altered quite a bit. I will usually do an induction, but mostly as a form of fractionation or what not).

Go ahead and close your eyes or key them open. It is time to make it so these changes go everywhere they need to go. Your unconscious has already made many changes. Now, I want you to go over everything we did and repeat it very quickly. Then run though more scenarios of when this new response would be useful. I am going to continue to talk and you can continue as I talk. It is alright, if you begin to drift off you're unconscious can still hears me and can respond accordingly. Keep going over everything we did, new scenarios, making slight adjustments when necessary. Then latter on when you sleep and dream I want you to reapeat this all again exactly as we are doing right now.