Do often feel that you sabotage your best efforts to loose
weight, get fit, stop smoking, work smarter and the like? Is it
a bit like having a gremlin on your shoulder giggling at you, or
a little voice blowing raspberries? This is your inner-mind,
(your subconscious), at work. What you want to do and what your
subconscious wants are in conflict.
What to do The solution is to tap into the power of your
mind and get it working in the direction you want to go. You can
do it right now - here's how, by creating a vivid picture in
your mind of how you want to be. So often we stay stuck with
being overweight, un-fit or smokers because we don't really have
any idea what it will be like for us to be that way. So our
brain continues in the same old habit patterns.
Try this exercise for yourself now and start the process of
making real change in your life: Take a deep breath, relax, and
take another relaxing deep breath in and let it out. Now close
your eyes, see yourself exactly how you want to be. Now when
you've got the picture exactly how you want it, using your
imagination climb into that picture, so that you really get feel
what it's like to be how you want to be . . . . really savour
that feeling and lock it into your mind, imagine how you'll
talk, what people are saying, what you can see . . . . . When
you're ready, open your eyes and come back to now.
Training yourself for Success What you've just done is
started to programme your subconscious to achieve what you want.
Do this every day on a regular basis, and you really will see
results. You will be following one of the basic laws of the mind
- what you focus on is what you get. Think about it. Have you
ever succeeded relaxing by telling yourself to relax, or fell
asleep by telling yourself to sleep? No? That's because you are
actually focussing your subconscious on your current state of
stress or sleeplessness, you are picturing how you are stressed,
or awake, so that's what you get. Get the picture?
Your most powerful resource The mind is a very powerful
resource - make it your ally. Get to know your inner-self - stop
and listen to what's going on in your head. You will start to
get clues as to what stops you breaking old habits or not
getting what you want. And if you want to really make changes do
it with hypnotherapy - you owe to yourself. Be the best you can
be.
By Liz Labrum: Master NLP Practitioner and
Hypnotherapist. Helping people make the right changes in their
lives www.lizlabrum.co.uk
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