Did you ever try to eliminate an unhelpful behavior, only to not succeed? There is list of ordinary problem behaviors that people often try to alter or eliminate using hypnotherapy. Possibly the most common are: Overeating and weight loss; stop smoking; quit chewing tobacco; stop nail biting; increasing self-confidence; overcoming insomnia and sleeping better; improving memory; and managing stress.



WHAT THE MIND CAUSES, THE MIND CAN CURE:

The motivation for our behaviors starts in our thoughts. When you mull it over, all of these destructive behaviors are the product of negative thinking. In other words, you think and motivate yourself into all of these behaviors. Or at least you think yourself into feeling tense, and that can result in these behaviors. And in view of the fact that you think and motivate yourself into these behaviors, you can think and motivate yourself out of them as well. But in order to effectively think and motivate yourself out of these negative behaviors, you will need to know the "Motivation Formula For Success."

DESIRE:

You're perhaps reading this article for the reason that you want the motivation to alter some personal behaviors. And that's convenient for the reason that the first component in the Motivation Formula For Your Success is that you must want or desire to change. If you have read this far, at least some part of you wishes a change.

BELIEF IS REQUIRED FOR MOTIVATION:

Before anyone can change a destructive behavior, that person must be motivated to do so. Merely desiring a behavior to change is not sufficient.

Motivation comes from what we believe. If we believe that something very important to us will get better or "become enhanced" if we make a change in our behavior, we will feel motivated. Conversely, if we believe that something very important to us will be placed in jeopardy if we don't make a change in our behavior, we will also feel motivated to alter our behavior.

Some plain examples of these motivational beliefs would be:

If I lose weight, then I'll be able to get a date or find someone to love me.

If I kick my smoking habit, then I'll be healthier.

If I improve my study habits, then I can graduate from college.

TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN CREATE THE BELIEFS THAT LEAD TO MOTIVATION:

NLP - which is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, offers strategies that are able to instantaneously create the element of belief. You can study more about this by reading the articles "How To Get Motivated To Exercise Using Hypnosis And NLP" and "Motivation Theory - How To Quit Smoking Using NLP And Hypnosis For Motivation." These articles are both available in my free hypnosis research library.

DECISION:

The dictionary definition of the word "Decision" is making up one's mind / a verdict or judgment. When you accept as true an idea that provides you with a powerful feeling of motivation to change your behavior, you will feel a compulsion to make a decision to eliminate a negative behavior. Decision is the key that unlocks the door and compels action.

ACTION:

The dictionary defines the word "Action" as an act or deed / to do or perform. Taking action means that instead of just daydreaming about making personal changes, you will actually take steps to create your desired changes.

SELF-TALK:

One of the many reasons that people are unsuccessful at modifying a negative behavior is because of their self-talk. Self-talk is vital because frequently it is part of what caused the negative behavior to begin with.

I'd like you to consider this for a moment: Let us say that you want to stop smoking. Probably the first thing that you may well say or think to yourself is: "I'm not going to smoke anymore."

It is common for people to tell themselves what they aren't going to do. Unfortunately, when we tell ourselves what we aren't going to do, we are actually compelling ourselves to do it!

SELF-TALK EXERCISE:

Say the following to yourself: I can't see blue. I can't see polka dots . . . . . . .

I'll bet your mind showed you the color blue, and then it showed you polka dots. That's because when we tell ourselves what we aren't going to do, in order to make sense of it our mind must make a movie of us doing whatever it is that we would like to stop doing. And when we imagine ourselves in a behavior, our mind compels us to generate that behavior.

SUMMARY:

In order to get rid of a negative behavior, we must first want or DESIRE to eliminate it. BELIEF is the component that leads us to MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION is the drive that compels us to DECISION. DECISION is the trigger to ACTION. NLP is a tool that we can use to facilitate beliefs, motivation, decisions, and actions.

When we tell ourselves what we aren't going to do, we make a mental image of ourselves in the behavior that we want to alter. And that mental image gives us a powerful urge to create the negative behavior. So if we want to get rid of a negative behavior, rather than tell ourselves what we will not do, we must always tell ourselves what we will do.

To break the smoking addiction say: "I can live without them."

To erase cravings for fattening food or to quit chewing tobacco say: "I can live without it."

To abort stress say: "I'm relaxed and calm, both mentally and physically."

To fall asleep more quickly say: "I fall asleep quickly, and sleep restfully throughout the entire night."