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What Makes Self-Help Programs Fail?

Have you ever tried to eliminate a harmful behavior, only to fail? It is irrelevant whether it was losing weight; trying to give up cigarettes; an effort to stop biting your nails; or just what it was. You just couldn't make yourself do it. Fortunately there is hope if you know what to do.

Author: Alan B. Densky Ch

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Have you ever tried to eliminate a harmful behavior, only to fail? There is a long list of ordinary problem behaviors that people often try to change or eliminate 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 end result 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 trigger these behaviors. And because you think and motivate yourself into these behaviors, you can think and motivate yourself out of them as well. In order to successfully think and motivate yourself out of these negative behaviors, you will need to know the "Motivation Formula For Success."

DESIRE:
You are probably reading this article because you want the motivation to make some personal changes. And that is opportune because 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 desires a change.

BELIEF IS REQUIRED FOR MOTIVATION:
Before anyone can change a harmful behavior, that person must be motivated to do so. Merely wanting 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 make a change in our behavior, then we will feel motivated. Conversely, if we believe that something very important to us will be in jeopardy if we don't make a change in our behavior, we will also experience motivation to alter our behavior.

Some plain examples of these motivational beliefs might 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 my nail biting, then my hands will look a lot more attractive.

TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN CREATE THE BELIEFS THAT LEAD TO MOTIVATION:
Neuro-Linguistic Programming - which is commonly known as NLP, provides methods that can immediately create the element of belief. You can study more on this topic 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 defines the word "Decision" as making up one's mind / a verdict or judgment. When you believe a concept that provides you with a powerful feeling of motivation to make a change, you will feel a compulsion to make a decision to eliminate a negative behavior. Decision is the key that unlocks the door to taking action.

ACTION:
The dictionary defines the word "Action" as an act or deed / to do or perform. When you take action it means that rather than just thinking about making personal changes, you will actually take action and create your desired changes.

SELF-TALK:
One of the many reasons that individuals fail to change or eliminate a negative behavior is because of the way that they talk to themselves. Self-talk is significant because time and again 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 quit smoking. Possibly the first thing that you might say or think to yourself is: "I'm not going to smoke any longer."

It's universal for people to tell themselves what they are not 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 are not going to do, in order to make sense of it our mind must show us doing whatever it is that we wish to stop doing. And when we imagine ourselves participating in a behavior, our mind compels us to create that behavior.

SUMMARY:
In order to alter a negative behavior, we must first want or DESIRE to get rid of it. BELIEF is the facet that leads us to MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION is the drive that leads us to DECISION. DECISION is the trigger to ACTION. Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a technology 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 movie of ourselves engaging in the behavior that we want to modify. And that mental image gives us an 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 quit smokeless chewing tobacco say: "I can live without it."

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

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

About Author

Alan B. Densky, CH is a certified hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner. He operates the Neuro-VISION Self Hypnosis website and the Video Self-Hypnosis Blog. He offers NLP CDs for motivation. Visit the site for his free Hypnosis MP3 downloads, newsletters, and his hypnosis research library. http://www.neuro-vision.us/Products/ExerciseMotivationHypnosisCD.htm

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