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

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СКАЧАТЬ didn’t begin her Switchword practice with just the master Switchword TOGETHER on its own – she was keen to attract more wealth, so she began chanting the money phrase: TOGETHER-FIND-DIVINE-COUNT. She says, ‘I repeated the phrase to myself often – in the mornings, when I woke up with the same old dread about being old and poor, then when walking to the train station … and whenever I could remember to do so throughout the day. I felt positive about Switchwords because I’d tried REACH in the past successfully, tracking down a book I needed for my teaching practice.

      ‘After two weeks – and still chanting, and entering the Lottery, and checking my premium bond numbers – there was nothing. I knew I had to enter competitions and create ways for money to come to me, hence the Lottery, but I just felt I was getting nowhere. I still liked the possibility in the sound of TOGETHER-FIND-DIVINE-COUNT, though, when I recited it.

      ‘Then came the breakthrough. I realised that as I was chanting the phrase, I was trying to visualise scratching off the third square on a scratch card to win £100,000. I could imagine scratching off one or two squares, but not the vital third. I realised then that I believed I couldn’t win, or have a lot of money. Of course, I liked the idea of winning, but couldn’t truthfully believe it would ever be me.’

      This realisation came up during the chanting because Switchwords talk to the subconscious – Kate’s subconscious had begun to talk back. And her unconscious, negative programme about money rose to the surface into her conscious awareness – into that conscious 5 per cent of our brain that has the ability to channel the 95 per cent that is usually hidden from view. This is the moment at which we make sense of a shimmery image in a bowl of water or the surface of a lake, when we look deeply into our own mirror of the self and are struck with a knowing, a self-realisation. In fairy tales, this is the moment of revelation, the culmination of all previous actions: when the Princess creeps into Bluebeard’s bloody chamber to find the corpses of his former wives, or when Sleeping Beauty awakens after 100 years in a coma – a metaphor for awakening to love in the form of the Prince.

      Like a Freudian slip, when a word reveals a buried belief or emotion, Kate had an ‘image slip’: she could not see herself – and by that I mean visualise herself – experiencing life with money. This explained some of her previous actions (and inaction) around money. Partly, she had been ambivalent. Not a materialistic person, Kate had come to have a negative attitude towards money (although she still wanted it, desperately). She never seemed to have enough money on her teacher’s salary, but she comforted herself with the fact that at least she had her integrity. She wasn’t corrupted by money and it wouldn’t rule her life. But the longer she lived alone in the city on her pretty modest income, the harder it became to hold this attitude. Then Kate gave in to herself and decided she needed money (lots of it). Yet hiding underneath her affirmations and declarations of what she needed was the thought that ‘Lots of wealthy people are sell-outs, and I’m not one of them, so I can’t be wealthy.’ This attitude protected her against a potential failure to achieve her goal. ‘I suppose my core belief that wealth is bad, and that people who have it are bad, corrupt or somehow unworthy, was just my projection of my own feeling of unworthiness.’

      By taking the action of reciting her Switchwords, Kate found a tool to uncover this negative subconscious programme. She knew now what might have been blocking her wealth: she simply didn’t believe, at a deep level, that she was good enough to have it.

      Expressing a block can mark the beginning of recovery. Like a computer virus infecting our subconscious databank of memories and beliefs, a block can be deleted. This may take time, but simply acknowledging that the block is there, bringing the problem to light out of shameful hiding, can be a huge step forward. Kate began to see her block just as it was: an unwanted belief, an interpretation of the past that only served to stand in the way of her having the money she needed. Why would she block herself, after all?

      Dealing with shame

      Shame is a powerful barrier to the truth. If an experience is accompanied by shame, it’s something we often want buried. The fear of being shamed by others can be a huge motivator to cut ourselves off from the injured part that needs immediate attention and healing, pushing it as far away from our thoughts as we can in the hope that it will disappear or be forgotten. We may want to deaden the feelings of shame, as psychiatrist James Gilligan explains to Jon Ronson in Ronson’s book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed: ‘Our language tells us this. One of the words we use for overwhelming shame is mortification. “I’m mortified.”’

      Despite our best efforts, these suppressed memories and negative experiences usually remain and at some level drive our behaviour and attitudes towards ourselves; we may suffer from lower self-esteem or self-confidence than outward appearance suggests.

      Try this: The shame soother

      BOW-LOVE-RESTORE. BOW makes the feeling smaller, LOVE generates self-love and RESTORE brings confidence.

      Before trying her money Switchwords again, Kate then began to choose Switchwords to help her feel more empowered, addressing her issue about not being worthy of money and what it could bring her. She chose ELATE to turn a setback to an advantage, UP for confidence and BLUFF to dispel fear, experimenting with the Switch phrases TOGETHER-UP-ELATE and TOGETHER-BLUFF.

      Most of our blocks have a fear aspect, so working with Switchwords that address this can certainly help your manifesting. Switchwording brings about change, too, which can trigger fear. Losing weight, for example, means change, and many of us fear change deep down. Who would I be without my faults and problems? How would I be as a slimmer, more confident version of myself? How would other people deal with me changing? With this much going on under the surface, it’s no wonder we experience fear and resistance.

      Try this: The fear-busters

      BLUFF helps reduce and dispel nervousness, anxiety and fear; CHANGE helps you let go of negative thoughts. Use the master Switchword TOGETHER with BLUFF and CHANGE, such as TOGETHER-BLUFF or TOGETHER-CHANGE – this gets you into a state of ‘self-togetherness’ when fear is making you feel separate from yourself. Add BE for peace of mind: TOGETHER-BLUFF-BE, TOGETHER-CHANGE-BE. When you begin to feel the fear ebb away, try chanting SHINE to lift your mood. You might also like to experiment with the flower-remedy Switchwords for fear (see here): ASPEN, CHERRY PLUM, MIMULUS, RED CHESTNUT and ROCK ROSE. Try reciting them alone, or with TOGETHER or TOGETHER-DIVINE.

      A quick reminder

      Know the power your subconscious has over your everyday actions. Accept that this part of you needs to be communicated with in a way that’s different from conscious self-talk. Think of your subconscious as a friend who responds to authentic requests and doesn’t want to be ignored, overruled or suppressed; listen to your subconscious when it ‘talks back’, telling you why you might be blocking your manifesting.

      Three questions to ask yourself before you begin

      1. What’s my true goal?

      Consider your goals carefully before you begin Switchwording. Do you really need money, or is it love and support? Do you really need a relationship right now, or is self-confidence more important? Be mindful of what you wish for, so that when you choose your Switchwords they express your true goal. This is not the dream come true your ego wants – it’s the goal that will carry you forward through life on the right path. When your goals are authentic and you use the right Switchwords, the subconscious responds strongly and you get what you wish for. In this way, Switchwording addresses some of the ‘block’ issues of traditional manifesting (see the Introduction, here).

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