SWISH off your fears & bad habits !

Common Phobias

1. Acrophobia Fear of heights

2. Achluophobia Fear of darkness

3. Agliophobia Fear of pain

4. Arachnophobia Fear of spiders

5. Aviophobia Fear of flying

6. Dentophobia Fear of dentists

7. Dromophobia Fear of crossing

streets

8. Hydrophobia Fear of water

9. Necrophobia Fear of death

10. Phasmophobia Fear of ghosts

Uncommon Phobias

1. Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a

car

2. Arithmophobia Fear of numbers

3. Aurophobia Fear of gold

4. Chronomentrophobia Fear of clocks (or

time)

5. Consecotaleophobia Fear of chopsticks

6. Epistemophobia Fear of knowledge

7. Euphobia Fear of hearing good

news

8. Geliophobia Fear of laughter

9. Leukophobia Fear of the color white

10. Genophobia Fear of sex

Let’s consider some BAD HABITS

Let’s consider some BAD HABITS

Let’s consider some BAD HABITS

Let’s consider some BAD HABITS

Let’s consider some BAD HABITS

I can’t help it!

err…or can I ?

Replace an undesirable state with an empowering one!

The SWISH Pattern

SWISH is about replacing your response to a particular trigger image (e.g. biting your finger nails or the fear of heights) with a new, positive response.

APPYING The SWISH Pattern

STEP 1

Identify the behaviour you want to change. Create an internal representation of that behaviour as you see it through your own eyes.

E.g. if you want to stop biting your fingernails, imagine a picture of you lifting your hand, bringing your finger to your mouth and biting a finger nail.

APPYING The SWISH Pattern

STEP 2

Now, create an ‘ideal’ representation of the new you – picture yourself as if you have made the desired change. When you picture yourself, it should be a disassociated view (not from your point of view but more of a watcher of yourself in a movie)

E.g. you might picture yourself as taking your fingers away from your mouth, seeing your nails perfectly manicured; you are well dressed & magnificently groomed; totally in-control and confident.

APPYING The SWISH Pattern

STEP 3

SWISH! – see your ideal representation getting bigger and brighter, replacing the image of your undesired behaviour. Your trigger image (nail biting) becomes smaller and dimmer as it is overlapped by the new you.

E.g. you might picture yourself as taking your fingers away from your mouth, seeing your nails perfectly manicured; you are well dressed & magnificently groomed; totally in-control and confident.

The key to this pattern is speed and repetition.

1. Close your eyes2. Create a big & bright image of

the behaviour you would like to change (trigger image).

3. Now create a dark, sub-image of how you would like to see your new self.

4. SWISH! (pause & experience)5. Open your eyes6. Repeat #1 two seconds later.

Let’s start swish-ing!