NLP & Hypnosis Formula For Success

Have you ever tried to eliminate a negative behavior, only to not succeed? There is list of widespread problem behaviors that people often try to alter or get rid of using hypnotherapy. Perhaps 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 mull it over, all of these unhelpful 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, and that can be the origin of these behaviors. And since 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 them, you will need to know the "Motivation Formula For Success."

DESIRE:
You're perhaps reading this article because you want the motivation to make some personal changes. And that's fitting for the reason that the first element in the Motivation Formula For Your Success is that you must want or desire to change. If you have read this far, at least a little part of you wishes a change.

BELIEF IS REQUIRED FOR MOTIVATION:
Before anyone can eliminate an unconstructive behavior, that person must be motivated to do so. Merely desiring a behavior to change is not adequate.

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 feel a high level of motivation. Conversely, if we believe that something very important to us will be placed at risk if we don't make a change in our behavior, we will also experience motivation to change.

Some straightforward examples of these motivational beliefs could 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 quit biting my nails, then my hands will be a lot prettier.

TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN CREATE THE BELIEFS THAT LEAD TO MOTIVATION:
NLP - which is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, offers methods that are able to instantaneously produce 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 believe a thought that gives you a powerful feeling of motivation to alter 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 thinking 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 the way that they talk to themselves. Self-talk is significant because often it is part of what caused the negative behavior in the first place.

I'd like you to consider this for a moment: Let's say that you want to break a cigarette habit. Probably the first thing that you are likely to say or think to yourself is: "I'm not going to smoke 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 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 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 would like to stop doing. And when we see ourselves participating in a behavior, our mind gives us a compulsion to generate that behavior.

SUMMARY:
In order to get rid of a negative behavior, we must first want or DESIRE to get rid of it. BELIEF is the element that creates MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION is the drive that pushes us to DECISION. DECISION is the impetus to ACTION. NLP is a modality 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 using the behavior that we want to modify. And that mental image gives us a powerful urge to participate in the negative behavior. So if we want to get rid of a negative behavior, rather than tell ourselves what we won't do, we must always tell ourselves what we will do.

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

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

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

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

Did you ever try to eliminate a harmful behavior, only to fail? It is immaterial whether it was losing weight; an attempt to quit smoking; trying to break a nail biting habit; or just what it was. You just couldn't motivate yourself to do it. Luckily there is hope if you know what to do when your self-improvement program fails.

Alan B. Densky, CH is an NLP Practitioner and certified hypnotherapist. He runs the Neuro-VISION self-hypnosis CDs website and the Video Self-Hypnosis Blog. He offers NLP CDs for motivation. Visit the website for his free downloads of hypnosis & NLP MP3's, newsletters, and his hypnosis research library.

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