Have you ever tried to eliminate a negative behavior, only to not succeed? There is list of ordinary problem behaviors that people often try to alter or eradicate using hypnosis. 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 stop and think about it, all of these negative behaviors are the 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 worried, and that can result in these behaviors. And in view of the fact that you think and motivate yourself into these behaviors, you can think and motivate yourself out of them as well. But in order to think and motivate yourself out of these behaviors, you will need to know specifically how to go about accomplishing it.

DESIRE: You’re almost certainly reading this commentary for the reason that you want the motivation to alter some personal behaviors. And that is fitting because the first ingredient 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 wants a change.

BELIEF IS REQUIRED FOR MOTIVATION: Before anyone can eliminate an unconstructive behavior, that person must be motivated to do so. Merely wanting a change is insufficient.

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 a high level of motivation. 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 alter our behavior.

Some simple examples of these motivational beliefs would be:

If I take some weight off, then I’ll be able to find a companion.

If I kick my smoking habit, then I will not have to worry about cancer.

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: NLP – which is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, offers strategies that are able to immediately produce the element of belief. You can learn 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 definition of the word “Decision” is making up one’s mind / a verdict or judgment. When you believe an idea that provides you with a powerful feeling of motivation to modify your behavior, you will feel a compulsion to make a decision to get rid of a negative behavior. Decision is the key that unlocks the door to taking action.

ACTION: The dictionary definition of the word “Action” is an act or deed / to do or perform. Taking action means that rather than just thinking about making personal changes, you will actually take steps to create your desired changes.

SELF-TALK: One of the reasons that individuals are unsuccessful at modifying a negative behavior is because of how they talk to themselves. Self-talk is important because time and again it is part of what caused the negative behavior to begin with.

I’d like you to consider this for a moment: Let us say that you want to kick a cigarette addiction. Probably the first thing that you might say or think to yourself is: “I’m not going to smoke anymore.”

It’s common 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 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 do not want to do, or what we won’t 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 engaging in a behavior, our mind compels us to generate that behavior.

SUMMARY: In order to modify 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 compels us to DECISION. DECISION is the means to ACTION. Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a modality 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 in the behavior that we want to get rid of. And that mental picture gives us a powerful urge to create the unwanted 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 food that will make you fat or to stop chewing smokeless tobacco 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 throughout the entire night.”

Research at Tufts-New England Medical Center has provided proof that all popular diets work when dieters stick to them. Atkins – low carb; The Zone – low glycemic index; Ornish – low fat; Weight Watchers – low calorie.

But researchers have also proven beyond a doubt that almost no one can stick to any diet because of their appetite.

So to be successful with a diet, weight loss hypnosis can be very effective.

Webster’s Dictionary defines “Appetite” as: “The desire for gratification of some want, craving, or passion.” So “appetite” is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure.

It’s a mistake to confuse appetite with hunger. Hunger is defined as “The body’s call for nourishment.” In other words, when the body needs food, that’s when you feel true on hunger. By that description, it is impossible for anyone to actually be hungry if they are overweight.

However, it is possible for you to have feelings that you interpret as “hunger.” And the stomach contracting in expectation of being fed causes those feelings.

When you were a child and you got upset, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become peaceful, and often fall asleep. That scenario was repeated dozens of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are fully grown, if you feel upset, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure – food!

People Also Get Cravings and Urges Because Of Classic Conditioning.

When you connect eating with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for food and a feeling of urgency to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you eat when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to eat each time you drive your car.

What About Compulsive Overeaters Who Eat Because Of Emotional Reasons?

A compulsion is defined as an “irresistible impulse.” One of the presuppositions of NLP is: There is a positive intention behind all behaviors. In other words, our unconscious mind only motivates behaviors that benefit or protect us in some way. In NLP terms, we say that being fat is a behavior when it provides a positive outcome or intention.

You may be wondering what the possible positive outcomes of being fat could possibly be. The list of possibilities is as long as the list of people who eat compulsively. But I’ll give you a classic example: A person gets their heart broken in a relationship. So to protect the self from getting the heart broken again, the unconscious motivates the self to become overweight to keep the self out of relationships and prevent another broken heart.

A big secret to eliminating your appetite and losing your weight is called reframing. With an NLP six-step Reframe, we respect the fact that the mind is compelling us to consume our food for relaxation and pleasure. And if we are eating compulsively because being fat is protecting us, we respect that also.

In a Neuro-Linguistic Programming six-step reframe, we negotiate with our unconscious mind. In the case of eating for relaxation and pleasure, we ask our subconscious to assume the responsibility for making us automatically substitute alternate behaviors. The substituted behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same relaxation and pleasure. But they must also be more acceptable to us on a conscious level. When the unconscious is motivating us into alternate behaviors that provide the relaxation and pleasure that we require – we lose our appetite on this score.

If you are an emotional eater, we do an additional reframe. We ask your subconscious to accept responsibility for making us substitute new behaviors in place of being overweight. These new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same benefits and protections. But they must be substitutions that are more consciously acceptable to you. When your unconscious is motivating you into alternate behaviors that provide the same benefits that you require, you lose the urges to overeat.

As far as feeling cravings because of conditioning (conditioned responses), we utilize various hypnotic and NLP techniques that erase or “extinguish” those conditioned responses. That breaks the connection between the behaviors, and eliminates the cravings and urges.

As soon as your appetite has been eliminated, and any compulsion to overeat has been overcome, you can stick to any diet of your choosing indefinitely so that it becomes a permanent lifestyle change.

A number of individuals are tired of weighing more than they would like. Many have trouble with losing weight or motivating themselves to alter their daily habits to steer clear of the long-term effects of obesity. These misfortunate people must learn to lose the extra pounds or suffer disastrous medical consequences.

Individuals who are overweight have the opportunity to choose from different strategies for weight loss and find their way on the road to self-improvement. In the most severe cases, doctors may find themselves order medications to help people lose weight. However, these prescriptions have the potential to cause severe or even deadly outcomes.

Medications used for weight loss programs can damage a person’s heart or lungs. Certain drugs have been declared dangerous, and some individuals have needed organ transplants because they took these drugs. Another way people often try to lose weight is by fad dieting. These methods say they help people to shed the extra pounds rapidly. People who do lose their extra pounds by these methods usually put it back on quickly. Furthermore, some people may can acquire nutritional conditions as a result of these diets.

Some individuals attempt strenuous exercise as a method of losing weight. Unfortunately, heavy exercise may be dangerous to the body. Individuals who engage in strenuous physical exercise typically do so to endurance instead of for fitness reasons, and cause their body metabolism to go into a mode known as anaerobic metabolism.

These words are a scientific way to explain that one’s no longer burns fat normally when going into this state. Alternatively, an individual’s metabolism decreases to hold back as much energy and fat as it can. Instead of permitting an individual’s body to take off the weight, this person actually encourages his or her body to retain those extra calories. Most weight loss experts have agreed that the most effective way of losing weight is lessening the number of calories that an individual takes in each day. Most individuals who are obese actually do desire to shed those pounds, and these people do work consciously to lose weight.

Most treatment approaches for suppressing people’s appetites and losing weight help persons to list their reasons for overeating. Clients try hard to suppress their urges to eat by journaling, identifying healthy food choices, and discussing their conscious motivations for overeating.

Usually, people who are overweight battle with subconscious problems centered on eating and appetite control. Hypnotherapy for weight loss is a perfect strategy for teaching an obese person to combat appetite control issues. Skilled hypnotherapists assist clients to utilize hypnotherapy weight control approaches to manage subconscious issues that cause overeating. Losing weight through hypnosis is a very useful method that permits clients to experience weight loss without using their will – and to maintain this loss!

Conventional hypnotists frequently utilize post-hypnotic suggestions that healthy foods taste better, or that one is full after eating smaller meals or portions. They sometimes offer people the suggestion that high-calorie, high-carbohydrate foods are less appetizing or that they do not taste as good.

Whether they want to be or not, many people are resistant to this type of direct hypnotic suggestion. For persons such as this, Ericksonian hypnotism usually results in an alternative strategy and a better outcome. It eradicates the individual’s propensity for resistance by camouflaging suggestions inside conversation or stories known as metaphors.

The optimal hypnotherapy weight loss approaches assist persons to conquer their appetites by dealing with the actual causes for the desires and needs that they struggle with. Guided imagery may also be used to encourage the essential required to change one’s lifestyle and experience long-term weight loss.

As opposed to other approaches designed to suppress the appetite, hypnotism for losing weight is relatively inexpensive. One of the least costly ways to reap the benefits of this method is to invest in a weight loss hypnosis CD.

People who opt for weight loss hypnosis CDs are able to utilize them without leaving their homes, where inclinations to eat excessively are the strongest. They create powerful mental links between their home environment and the best strategies for losing weight. This optimizes the effectiveness of hypnosis-based weight loss methods.

Summary: Ericksonian hypnosis for weight reduction is one of the most useful methods of losing and controlling one’s weight through appetite control. This allows people to address subconscious issues at the center of their rationales for overeating and weight gain. This approach is perfect for home use by means of the purchase of CDs and DVDs designed to help people lose weight through self-hypnosis.

Have you had it with dieting? Do you lose two pounds and gain back five? Do you get your hopes up each time a new “miracle” diet arrives on the scene, only to find out that you still can’t beat your compulsions?

What you really need is a diet that lets you lose weight by sitting and watching the TV. Think it’s a dream? Keep reading.

You have probably read and heard the statistics: We are getting fatter than ever. From young child to old adult, the stats tell the tale: Obesity is epidemic. Why?

There are plenty of explanations, but here is one that I do not think you’ve heard: We have been programmed, hypnotized–if you will–to pay for and consume more and larger portions of everything, above all junk food, sugary soft drinks and fast food.

How did this happen? What could possibly have such a powerful, insidious effect on so many millions of people? The answer is sitting in your living room. It is your TV.

Yes, advertisers have slowly and purposely hypnotized you. They sell their empty calories using the most potent and effective marketing medium ever created: television commercials.

Commercials are carefully crafted to entice and motivate. They can literally make your mouth water as you watch a sizzling steak being delivered to a table or a delectable candy bar being devoured by an overly happy, and shapely actor.

What is happening during these commercials? You are being hypnotized! Your mind is being programmed to want…even NEED…a candy bar of your own, right NOW!

The commercial is zoomed in on the candy bar so it covers the entire television screen. You see practically every grain of processed sugar, they get so close!

And guess what? You are probably salivating right now, at this very moment, just from this description? Your mind has conjured up images that were stored deep in your unconscious from when you watched TV commercials long ago. Can you see how controlling the video images on television can be? Yes, they can control even your physical reactions!

If you’re familiar with hypnosis, then you know that it’s the alpha level of consciousness. You pass through this daydream like state as you fall asleep at night. And you pass through this daydream like state again as you awaken in the morning. Research has verified that if you watch much TV, you are in this alpha state for two-thirds of your viewing time. What can you do to overcome this programming?

First, of course, you can stop watching TV commercials. But what about the programming that advertisers have already embedded in your subconscious? How do you eradicate it and reprogram your thoughts? Video hypnosis made you put pounds on, and video weight loss hypnosis will provide the solution to your problem.

If you have read this far and you still think that I am jesting, I promise you that I am not joking! Video lose weight hypnosis is for real and a US Patent was even granted on the methodology! Here is a semi-technical explanation of why and how it works:

The average person experiences oral cravings and oral urges for two main reasons:
A. When a woman feels tense, she feels compelled to put something into her mouth because it provides relaxation and pleasure.

B. When you pair eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings and a compulsion to eat.

Let us talk about Part “B” first. Over seventy percent of our population learns much more quickly and easily by seeing, rather then by what they hear. Think about it for a moment: If you experience an urge to eat or smoke as you watch TV, it’s because your unconscious recorded the video image of either food in your hand, or a cigarette in your hand, and then associated that mental image, with the mental image of the television. From that point on, every time that you watch TV, your subconscious flashes the image of the food or cigarette in your hand, and you get cravings and urges.

So you have actually “programmed” your unconscious mind to make you feel cravings and urges as a “conditioned response” to watching TV. The same thing happens when you eat while working on your computer, etc.

Video weight loss hypnosis will extinguish the conditioned responses. It will program your mind to have the television (or whatever) trigger unconscious images of you watching the television without eating.

When the video weight loss hypnosis makes you lose your subconscious image of food, then you will lose your appetite. When you see yourself in a behavior, you get a compulsion to generate that behavior. So after watching video lose weight hypnosis, you actually get a compulsion to NOT eat when you watch TV.

But what about Part “A”? Our feelings of tension are created by our thoughts. If you think offensive thoughts, you feel stressed and upset. If you think cheerful thoughts, you feel happy and blissful.

If you think an upsetting thought while you are sitting at your computer, your mind can associate that thought with the computer. And thereafter, when you are working on your computer, you have a conditioned response, your mind flashes to that unpleasant thought and you experience the feeling of tension.

The methodologies used in video weight loss hypnotherapy are based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This technology works based on the utilization of a person’s existing thought processes instead of post-hypnotic suggestion. With Neuro-Linguistic Programming, we use the thought processes that are creating your problems, to eliminate your problems.

Video lose weight hypnosis can program your unconscious to use negative thoughts as a trigger for joyful thoughts. So if you start to think about somethinga thought) that is disturbing, your unconscious will automatically change to a blissful thought in a millisecond. You become relaxed, so there are no feelings of tension to cause you to feel oral urges and cravings. And without an appetite to overeat, it is much easier for you to lose weight and keep it off permanently. Medical research has proven that all of the popular diets work well. But it has also proven that most people fail with those diets because they can’t stick to them because their appetite is out of control!