Have you ever wondered what actually creates our problems? If you’ve read the free manual or joined the seminar, you already know it’s largely about how we think, perceive, and what we keep running in our minds.
FasterEFT is a fairly comprehensive system for resolving whatever life throws at us.
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes even tapping doesn’t move things—or not as quickly as we’d like. Some issues respond differently, and that’s where another approach can help. Even Robert G. Smith sometimes sets tapping aside and works in other ways when needed.
Let me show you one of those other ways
Note: this technique isn’t for everyone—you’ll need at least some ability to use your visual representational system. Also, it’s generally not meant for major trauma, but rather for adjusting everyday behaviors and the pictures we run in our heads.
What will we use it for here?
Recently I was reading about money psychology, which inspired a practical demo.
We’ll use the technique to change the images you associate with money
You’ve probably seen courses about speaking the language of money, loving money, and building a relationship with it—so you can finally have it. The takeaway, though, is that in many cases the person getting rich is the organizer, not the students.
The key idea is this:
Outer wealth has to be present inside first.
How can you attract money if, on the inside, you talk about it as a scarce commodity, your body tightens when you think of it, and the inner pictures you make about abundance don’t look abundant at all? If you keep lamenting that you don’t have it—or don’t have it yet?
Let’s look at how to change that. In the example below I’ll show you how to change inner pictures so your wealth can show up (manifest) in real life.
Steps
- Imagine your wallet. Open it and look inside. Don’t force positive images. Just see it as you actually see it now. Maybe you notice empty compartments. Study that picture.
- Now decide what you want instead. Create a future image of yourself with all financial matters resolved, living in plenty. See a pleasant picture of yourself from a third-person viewpoint (you can see “you”).
- Fade that positive picture to grayscale and make it small. Imagine a TV screen in front of you. On it, place the full-size wallet image you want to change. Put the small, gray positive image in a bottom corner.
- Watch the screen and now let the small positive image very quickly grow to fill the whole screen, becoming bright and vivid. Speed is crucial—faster than your conscious mind can track. Add a sound effect—like something whizzing by: swishhh.
- Clear the scene—look around the room, notice a few objects.
- Return to the screen. The wallet image is large again; the positive one is small and gray in a corner. Repeat steps 3–5 at least 12 times, as fast as you can.
- Now try to hold the negative wallet picture in place. If you did it right, it will be very hard to keep; the positive image will intrude and dominate. Notice how your feelings about your wallet shift.
Where else can you use this?
Do the same with your online banking snapshot. If picturing it doesn’t feel great, build an image of financial ease. See yourself as someone who has finances well handled.
What else visually represents lack for you? Change it!
In NLP, these image swaps are called a Swish. One use is changing behavior in certain situations.
If you often bite your nails, first create a picture of doing it—from a first-person view (e.g., your raised finger moving to your mouth).
As the new target picture, see yourself (third-person) doing something different—running your fingers through your hair, or anything that fits.
A similar approach can sometimes help with smoking.
Remember: be fully associated in the image you want to change, and dissociated (watching yourself) in the positive image. This creates a kind of pull that supports real behavioral change. And keep in mind: the entire swap must happen a little faster than your conscious mind can follow.
There are several Swish variations. Once you grasp the principle, try others—like the slingshot swish.
How to do the slingshot swish?
Simple.
Picture the negative image in front of you. A hand crumples it into a ball and pulls it back into the distance like a slingshot. When it releases, the image snaps back in front of your face—but now it’s the positive image.
In the seminar you’ll also learn a variation that ends with a pleasant body feeling for extra power—adding a FLIP—and with swaps like this you can often shift a problem quickly.