NLP & Hypnosis Formula For Success

Have you ever tried to do away with an unconstructive behavior, only to fail? There is an extended list of widespread problem behaviors that people often try to change or eliminate using hypnosis. 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 harmful behaviors are the consequence 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 be the origin of these behaviors. And because you think and motivate yourself into these behaviors, you can think and motivate yourself out of them. In order to think and motivate yourself out of these negative behaviors, you will need to know specifically how to go about doing so.

DESIRE:
You are possibly reading this editorial because you want the motivation to alter some personal behaviors. And that's convenient for the reason that the first factor 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.

Our motivation comes from what we believe. If we believe that something very important to us will get better or "become enhanced" if we alter our behavior, then we will become 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 experience motivation to alter our behavior.

Some simple 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 quit smoking cigarettes, then I'll be healthier.

If I stop biting my nails, then my hands will look a lot more attractive.

TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN CREATE THE BELIEFS THAT LEAD TO MOTIVATION:
NLP - which is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, provides methods that can instantly produce the element of belief. You can find out 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 a thought that gives you a powerful feeling of motivation to make a change, you will feel a powerful urge to make a decision to alter a negative behavior. Decision is the key that unlocks the door to compelling action.

ACTION:
The dictionary definition of the word "Action" is an act or deed / to do or perform. Taking action means that instead of just thinking about making personal changes, you will actually take action and bring about your desired changes.

SELF-TALK:
One of the many reasons that people are unsuccessful at altering a negative behavior is because of how they talk to themselves. Self-talk is vital because very often it is an important part of what caused the negative behavior to begin with.

I'd like you to think about this for a moment: Let's say that you want to stop smoking. The first thing that you are likely to say or think to yourself is: "I'm not going to smoke anymore."

It is universal for people to tell themselves what they aren't going to do. Unfortunately, when we tell ourselves what we are not going to do, we are actually programming 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 wish to stop doing. And when we see ourselves in a behavior, our mind gives us a compulsion to generate that behavior.

SUMMARY:
In order to alter a negative behavior, we must want or DESIRE to eliminate it. BELIEF is the component that leads us to MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION is the drive that pushes us to DECISION. DECISION is the trigger to ACTION. Neuro-Linguistic Programming 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 movie of ourselves engaging in the behavior that we want to modify. And that mental image gives us a compulsion to participate in the negative behavior. So if we want to eliminate a negative behavior, rather than tell ourselves what we won't do, we must always tell ourselves what we will do.

To stop smoking say: "I can live without them."

To erase cravings for food that will make you fat or to give up smokeless chewing tobacco say: "I can live without it."

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

To sleep better say: "I fall asleep promptly, and sleep restfully throughout the night."

Alan B. Densky, CH is an NLP Practitioner and certified hypnotherapist. He operates the Neuro-VISION Self Hypnosis website and the Video Self-Hypnosis Blog. He offers Hypnosis CDs for motivation. Visit the site for his free MP3 downloads, his research library and newsletters.