Self Hypnosis & NLP For Success 

Did you ever try to get rid of a harmful behavior, only to be unsuccessful? There is an extended list of familiar problem behaviors that people often try to alter or eradicate using self-hypnosis. 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. If you stop and think about it, all of these negative 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 stressed out, and that can result in these behaviors. And given that you think and motivate yourself into these behaviors, you can think and motivate yourself out of them. But in order to think and motivate yourself out of them, you will need to know specifically how to go about doing so.

DESIRE:

You are perhaps reading this article for the reason that you want the motivation to alter some personal behaviors. And that's fitting because the first building block 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 wants a change.

BELIEF IS REQUIRED FOR MOTIVATION:

Before anyone can eliminate a harmful behavior, that person must be motivated to do so. Merely desiring a behavior to change is insufficient. Our motivation comes from what we believe. If we believe that something very important to us will get better or "become enhanced" if we modify our behavior, then we will feel motivated. Conversely, if we believe that something very important to us will be placed at risk if we don't alter our behavior, we will also feel motivated to make a change.

Some straightforward 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 stop smoking, then I'll be healthier. If I improve my study habits, then I can graduate with honors.

TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN CREATE THE BELIEFS THAT LEAD TO MOTIVATION:

NLP - which is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, provides methods that are able to immediately produce the element of belief. You can learn 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 believe something that provides you with a powerful feeling of motivation to make a change, you will feel bound to make a decision to get rid of 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 rather than just daydreaming about making personal changes, you will actually take action and bring about your desired changes.

SELF-TALK:

One of the many reasons that most individuals fail to change or eliminate a negative behavior is because of their self-talk. Self-talk is vital because repeatedly it is part of what caused the negative behavior to begin with. I'd like you to think about this for a moment: Let us say that you want to stop smoking. Possibly the first thing that you may well say or think to yourself is: "I'm not going to smoke cigarettes any longer." It is universal for people to tell themselves what they are not going to do. Unfortunately, when we tell ourselves what we are not 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 are not going to do, in order to make sense of it our mind must make a movie of us doing what it is that we wish to stop doing. And when we see ourselves participating in a behavior, our mind compels us to create that behavior.

SUMMARY:

In order to modify a negative behavior, we must want or DESIRE to get rid of it. BELIEF is the factor that creates MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION is the drive that compels us to DECISION. DECISION is the means to ACTION. NLP is a method that we can use to facilitate beliefs, motivation, decisions, and actions. When we tell ourselves what we are not going to do, we make a mental image of ourselves engaging in the behavior that we want to modify. And that mental movie gives us an urge to participate in the unwanted behavior.

So if we want to eliminate a negative behavior, instead of telling ourselves what we will not do, we must always tell ourselves what we will do. To stop smoking say: "I can live without them." To abort cravings for food that will make you fat or to quit smokeless chewing tobacco say: "I can live without it." To abort stress say: "I'm relaxed and calm, both mentally and physically." To sleep better say: "I fall asleep quickly, and sleep soundly throughout the entire night."

Alan B. Densky, CH is certified by the NGH. He runs the Neuro-VISION Self Hypnosis website and the Self-hypnosis Video Blog. He offers hypnosis & NLP CDs for motivation. Visit his website for his free MP3 downloads, newsletters, and his hypnosis research library.