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Did you ever try to do away with a negative behavior, only to be unsuccessful? There is an extensive list of widespread problem behaviors that people often try to alter or get rid of 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. If you stop and think about it, all of these harmful 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 frazzled, and that can cause these behaviors. And given that you think and motivate yourself into these behaviors, you can think and motivate yourself out of them as well. In order to think and motivate yourself out of these behaviors, you will need to know the "Motivation Formula For Success."

DESIRE: You are probably reading this commentary because you want the motivation to make some personal changes. And that is fitting because 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 some part of you wishes a change.

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

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 in jeopardy if we don't make a change in our behavior, we will also feel highly motivated 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 stop smoking, 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, offers strategies that can immediately generate the element of belief. You can learn more concerning 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 defines the word "Decision" as making up one's mind / a verdict or judgment. When you believe a concept that gives you a powerful feeling of motivation to alter your behavior, you will feel bound to make a decision to get rid of a negative behavior. Decision is the key that unlocks the door to compelling action.

ACTION: The dictionary defines the word "Action" as an act or deed / to do or perform. Taking action means that instead of just daydreaming about making personal changes, you will actually take steps to create your desired changes.

SELF-TALK: One of the reasons that people fail to change or eliminate a negative behavior is because of the way that they talk to themselves. Self-talk is vital because frequently it is an important part of what caused the negative behavior in the first place.

I'd like you to consider this for a moment: Let us say that you want to break a cigarette addiction. The first thing that you may well say or think to yourself is: "I'm not going to smoke cigarettes anymore."

It is common 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 show us doing what it is that we want to stop doing. And when we see ourselves engaging in a behavior, our mind compels us to generate that behavior.

SUMMARY: In order to eliminate a negative behavior, we must first want or DESIRE to get rid of it. BELIEF is the ingredient that leads us to MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION is the drive that leads us to DECISION. DECISION is the trigger 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 picture of ourselves 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 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 high calorie foods or to give up chewing tobacco say: "I can live without it."

To eliminate 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 entire night."