The following techniques will modify patterned/habitual
behaviour (the list is non-exhaustive):
1) change frequency/rate
2) change duration
3) change time of day/week/month/year
4) change location in body or world
5) change intensity
6) change quality or cir***stance
7) change sequence (order) of events around the pattern
8) short circuit the sequence (eg jump from beginning to end)
9) interrupting or otherwise preventing all or part of sequence occuring
10) adding or subtracting (at least) one element to/from the sequence
11) breaking whole elements into smaller elements
12) perform the pattern without its usual associations
13) allow the associations to occur without the pattern
14) reverse the pattern
15) link the pattern to another (undesirable) pattern (ie 'aversion
therapy')
'That little hole in the dyke doesn't seem like it will
flood the land, except that it will, because once you
break through [with] an altered pattern of behaviour
in some way, the cracks keep on travelling.' [MHE]
('Taproots': William H O'Hanlon - after Milton H Erickson]
Observe your sequences closely, minutely, then modify
them in such a manner (see above) that you make them
into laborious tasks, inconveniences, which it becomes a
pleasure to let fall away effortlessly.
The techniques work equally as well on lingusitic patterns
(eg propagada, etc.) as on physical behaviours.
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