🔵 HAYBS | Pattern Series, 9

In the previous email, we identified three kinds of personal patterns: harmful, beneficial, and neutral. If you completed your next step, you have selected a neutral pattern in your life to start breaking.

In this email, we begin the work of breaking that neutral pattern.

Breaking the Neutral Pattern

This work is very simple. And simple does not mean easy. Even so, depending on the neutral pattern you have chosen to break, it could very well be easy.

Actually, I recommend choosing a pattern which you think will be easier to break. If you would like to choose a different pattern than the one you selected before, do so.

An example

Patterns involving the use of the right or left side of the body are an excellent choice to begin your journey of becoming a Pattern Breaker.

If I tend to put on my pants right-leg-first, I would begin breaking this pattern by putting them on left-leg-first. Simple, and easy.

Putting on my pants is really the easy part of this work. And yes, I am chuckling as I write this—but pay attention! This is serious.

The challenging part of this work is remembering to start with my other leg. The exact moment in which I put on my pants is only one part of the overall (pun intended) pattern. If I am not paying attention, I will find myself already dressed before I realize I forgot to apply the new behavior.

Really, even something as simple as this becomes a powerful pattern with great momentum.

So, how do I remember?

Expanding the pattern

To make sure that I remember to apply the new behavior, I can set reminders for myself. These can be something simple, like sticky notes or a reminder on my phone.

A more effect reminder, however, uses the pattern itself.

What happens just before I put on my pants?

I get my pants from the drawer, or wherever they usually live when I am not wearing them. This is also part of the pattern.

So instead of leaving my pants in their normal dwelling place, I will leave them somewhere new. This is already working to break the pattern before I even arrive at the main event: putting on my pants with the other leg.

Your Next Step

1. Continue your daily end-of-day journaling practice.

2. Set a timer for 20 minutes.

3. In your journal, expand the pattern you want to break and identify one or more linked events to use as reminders.

4. Begin your work as a Pattern Breaker!

In the next email, we will continue breaking this neutral pattern.

Your Hypnotherapist,
Devin Ryback

As always, I am available if you would like more guidance.

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