A01 NLP Programs Flashcards
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NLPP 001 - The Swish Pattern
NLPP 002 - Physiomental State Interruption (Break)
NLPP 003 - Anchoring
NLPP 004 - State Induction
NLPP 005 - Accessing Resourceful States
NLPP 001 - The Swish Pattern
Value: Used to break an automatic thought or behavior pattern, and replace it with a resourceful one
Overview:
Step #1. Recognize the automatic reaction
Step #2. Determine the trigger of the negative image
Step #3. Place the replacement
Step #4. Swish the two images
Step #5. Repeat
Step #6. Test
Protocol:
Step #1. Recognize the automatic reaction
Recognize the automatic reaction (the thoughts, feelings or images that occur to you when you think of the challenging situation). Select a replacement image (something inspiring, such as a really good outcome), that helps create a positive state. Imagine yourself in a dissociated image (the third perceptual position, as if you are watching yourself in a movie). Enhance the qualities, such as submodalities, of the scene until it is as compelling as possible.
Step #2. Determine the trigger of the negative image
Discover what tells your mind to produce the negative image or behavior. Ask yourself what occurs just before this negative or unwanted state begins? This time, you want an associated scene (first position, looking through your own eyes) of what is going on immediately before you engage in the unwanted activity. Remember to think in terms of submodalities to get a detailed sense of the scene. It functions as a trigger for the unresourceful state.
Step #3. Place the replacement
Put the replacement off in the corner of the negative image. Imagine a small, postagestamp- sized version of your replacement scene in the bottom corner of the negative scene.
Step #4. Swish the two images
Swish the two images. You will be making both images change simultaneously and with increasing speed. (If you are experienced, you can select two critical submodalities for this.) When you swish, have the negative scene become smaller and shoot off into the distance. At the same time, have the positive replacement image zip in closer and larger, rapidly and completely replacing the negative scene. Imagine it making a whoosh sound as it zips into place. At first, you’ll probably do this slowly, taking a few seconds to complete the swish. As you repeat the process, you will be able to do it faster and faster, until you swish nearly instantaneously.
Step #5. Repeat Clear your mind after each Swish.
This is very important. Do this by thinking of something else, such as your favorite color or what you need to do later. Remember to breathe easily during the swish and the breaks. Do the swish five to seven times, repeating steps three to five each time. You know you have a good outcome when you have some difficulty maintaining the negative image.
Step #6. Test
Now try to use the limiting thought or behavior again. Notice how hard, if not impos- sible, it is for you to act it out. Notice that you actually have to think about how to do it first; it is not as automatic as it used to be. If you feel that you could re- lapse, use the Swish again in a day or two, and again after a week.
NLPP 002 - Physiomental State Interruption (Break)
NLPP 002 - Physiomental State Interruption (Break)
Step # 1. Identify the state you experience
Step #2. Initiate an interruption by exaggerating a driving submodality
Step #3. Test
Step # 1. Identify the state you experience
Recognize what state you are in, and name it. It may not be a clear-cut as depression, boredom, or anger, but you can come up with a name that captures the essence of the state. To help you find a name, notice the feeling of the state or the direction it carries your thoughts.
Step #2. Initiate an interruption by exaggerating a driving submodality
Notice how this state is represented in your sense modalities. Identify a submodality feature that is important to this state. Change that feature to make it absurd. For example, if you hear a voice that says “1 am not worthy of love”, change that tone of voice into that of a cartoon character. Or if you feel a throb of depression when you have a certain thought, take a break to do a rational procedure such as serial sevens (7, 14, 21,28 … )
Step #3. Test
Notice whether your state has changed significantly. If not, the problem may be in your choice of submodality feature. You may not have found an impactful one. You also may need to experiment with how you change the submodality to make it absurd.
NLPP 003 - Anchoring
Value: how we get into the right state for what we want to do.
Overview: NLPP 003 - Anchoring
Step #1. Select a state and decide which trigger to use.
Step #2. Elicit the state.
Step #3. Calibrate.
Step #4. Anchor the state.
Step #5. Test
Protocol:
Step #1. Select a state and and decide which trigger to use.
Select a state that you want to have access to in the future. Select the anchor trigger you would like to use. As you’ll recall, this can be a hand position, a point on your body 91 that you touch, or a word or phrase that you say mentally, among many others or some other UNIQUE action that you can dedicate to this state. That means it must be specific, such as pulling on you little finger.
Step #2. Elicit the state.
For instructions on how to elicit the state, see the State Elicitation pattern.) Make the state fairly strong.
Step #3. Calibrate.
If you are doing this for someone else, have them tell you when they are in the state, and observe their physical cues such as body language, so that you can better calibrate them.
Step #4. Anchor the state.
Once the state is fully active and at its PEAK, anchor the state. Anchor it by doing the behavior that you selected in step one as your trigger. At this point, you are associating the trigger with the state, that is, anchoring the state to the trigger. In the future, activating this trigger will help you activate the state. Never use this trigger for anything other than this state from now on, and when you activate this state in the future, continue the practice of associating the trigger with the state in order to make this association even stronger.
Step #5. Test.
Think of situations in which you will want to trigger this state, and make a reminder to yourself in your calendar so that you’ll remember to practice using it and reaping it’s benefits.
Additional Advise
It is important to remember the basic principles. Be sure that your anchor is unique so that other states and situations don’t dilute it. Make sure that when you create an anchor, that the state is as intense as you can get it. An intense state creates the strongest anchor. The more pure the state is, without other things going, the better. The more precisely you focus that state, the better. You can use redundancy in order to make triggering more powerful. Do this by anchoring in multiple sense modalities. You can fire them simultaneously or in close succession. If your first efforts do not work adequately, you may need to sharpen your observational or problem-solving skills as you seek the reason.
