Switchwords: How to Use One Word to Get What You Want. Liz Dean

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СКАЧАТЬ Switchwords appear to have more in common with mantras than with positive affirmations. As Switchwords work through vibrational rather than literal meaning, they share their purpose with mantras – the first mantras were constructed according to their sound, rooted in the seed syllable ‘Om’ or pranava, meaning ‘sound’ and ‘humming’. An affirmation may have a sound or vibrational aspect – such as rhyme, assonance or alliteration (‘Beat the others to be the best’; ‘What you resist persists’) – yet these effects are often secondary, intended only as an aide-mémoire. Again, with Switchwords we don’t need to understand the words, know them or have any personal point of reference for them to work. They operate on the vibration of sound, rather than the anchor of conscious knowing. Philosopher Frits Staal (1930–2012), who did not believe that the words of mantras had much literal meaning, compared them to birdsong. While we may not understand the language, we acknowledge it as a form of communication through sound.

      Believe it or not … Switchwords work

      Believing that your Switchwords will work and trusting that what you’ve wished for will be delivered gives energy to your manifesting, but even with minimal belief these amazing words still appear to work. Here’s just one example.

      The morning after I sent out my regular Switchword email to my group, two recipients immediately replied. They had won exactly the same amount of money after chanting the Switch phrases ‘FIND-DIVINE-COUNT-ON’ and ‘ELOHIM-DIVINE’, which I’d included in my email for the first time. The response from Jon, a teacher who was curious about my interests rather than enamoured, was the first to ping into my inbox. I’d included him on my mailing list because he’s a friend and I knew he could do with more cash. He wrote, ‘I did it [FIND-DIVINE-COUNT-ON] in a rather cynical way and got a £25 payout on premium bonds today!’ He’s now working with REACH to find a long-lost book. Next was Rhonda’s email. Rhonda is a kindred spirit who thoroughly believes in angels and manifesting. She chose ELOHIM-DIVINE as her Switch-pair, which asks for a miracle from God or the universe. Plagued by money worries for months, she wrote: ‘Liz, I won £25 on yesterday’s Lotto!! Most I’ve ever won. Started playing two months ago. Do you think it’s the Switchword working already? Last night I repeated it 28 times. I am on the train to work feeling very wealthy!’

      Perhaps Jon’s lack of attachment to the outcome actually helped him; he was willing to be open-minded and try, and he received a small reward as a result. Perhaps Rhonda’s total belief helped her; she was dedicated to her Switchword practice and it paid off. Whichever, it doesn’t matter. Two very different people had exactly the same result after chanting their Switchwords, and the universe responded regardless of their level of belief. All you need is the belief that it’s worth trying: the universe takes care of the rest. What do you have to lose?

      Ellen, firmly in Jon’s sceptical camp, shared her story with me: ‘I was looking for a gardening book and I’d searched everywhere. Then your email arrived and I used REACH to find it (although I was sceptical). I set a time limit of that day and when it didn’t turn up, I felt my scepticism was justified. However, the following day I was walking past a bookcase that I had already searched through, and there it was. Did the same with a mislaid bicycle pump and found it almost straight away. Scepticism overruled (for now!)’

      While a successful track record obviously helps belief (the more we succeed, the more we trust in the process), research also suggests that familiarity alone generates positive thoughts. Even if we’re only able to carry the basic belief that Switchwords are worth trying – but don’t necessarily believe that they will work – we cultivate belief as a by-product. This is known as the exposure effect. We have positive thoughts about things we’ve seen or heard (or experienced through other senses) before. This is true, of course, in advertising (which is why we’re bombarded with repeated adverts) and also in music. A refrain or chorus has the effect of enchanting the brain – the exposure effect of repetition means we come to like what we’re familiar with. So this is part of the belief factor in Switchwords: the more familiar we become with the Switchwords we choose, the more we generate an inner belief that they will work, whether we’re conscious of this or not.

      Tip: Use CARE to remember the parts of this book you need.

      There’s a Switchword to help you store information – including Switchwords. This word is CARE. You might imagine this as the ‘save’ function on a computer. CARE helps you bank information for retrieval later. Whenever you pause in your reading of this book, say, think or chant the Switchword CARE to help you store the information you need. When you want to remember a Switchword or any part of this book later on, use the ‘finding’ Switchword REACH, which retrieves whatever you need, when you need it.

      Ready for the next step?

      

       Working with Switchwords

       Opening the pathways to success

      The subconscious houses that aspect of our higher self (or super-consciousness) that can be thought of as the guiding principle that wants what is best for us in this lifetime, attracting the wise lessons we need to learn, and inspiring us to act from a place of love rather than fear. When we use Switchwords, we are switching on the subconscious and the higher self to bring us what we genuinely need (rather than what the ego, expressed through the conscious mind, assumes we should have).

      The subconscious mind holds thoughts, impressions and beliefs that the conscious mind is not aware of. These hidden attitudes have a powerful effect on our lives, both positive and negative, whether we achieve or fail, falter or procrastinate, take risks or confront problems. Your subconscious mind can be your greatest ally in achievement. It responds to the energy of the thoughts and feelings within you to attract external influences that hold the same vibration: like attracts like. This is the basis of mani-festing – the belief that we can change our reality by changing our thoughts.

      So, while we tell ourselves what we’d like to achieve, we also assume that our subconscious mind hears the command, understands it, believes in our missions and enters wholly into the agreement. Our beliefs, actions and words are consistent with the goal we’d like to achieve – or so we assume. We think we’re together as one, a perfect union of the conscious and subconscious self, all geared up to make whatever we want happen.

      Experience, however, shows us that this isn’t always so, and we’re often left bewildered by our failure to complete a task or make a substantial change in our lives. When our subconscious mind appears to ignore or even sabotage our conscious desire through action or inaction, it’s virtually impossible to create and sustain the new reality we want, whether it’s making more money or beginning a new business, managing time, dealing with anxiety and fear or breaking negative habits.

      If we need more money, we might consciously affirm, ‘I am wealthy, I live in abundance,’ and repeat this on a daily basis, often reciting it while looking at ourselves in a mirror and imagining how we’d feel if we were rich and successful. But what if our underlying belief conflicts with this affirmation? What if, at some level, we don’t believe we deserve – or want – money?

      Liam’s money

      Here’s an example. Liam lost his father when he was 26 years old; they had been very close. His mother had passed away when he was just five years old, and Liam was now devastated at the loss of his sole parent. The proceeds from the sale of his father’s home were then divided between him and his brother, Patrick. СКАЧАТЬ