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.”

There are two psychological states that have to be fulfilled before a tobacco smoker will willingly quit smoking. These fundamentals are called “Desire,” and “Decision.”

DESIRE: A want, crave or a wish for

DECISION: Making up of one’s mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to quit smoking, you must have a DESIRE to quit. You most likely would like to to stop smoking, at least some part of you wants to, or you wouldn’t be reading this article.

In addition, in order to stop smoking, a person must DECIDE to break the addiction. Since you haven’t quit smoking, it simply means that you have not DECIDED to stop smoking cigarettes yet.

So what you need is to feel a strong compulsion to make a “DECISION” to quit smoking.

MOTIVATION, we all would like to have it. The source of our motivation is what we believe. Give it some thought; if you didn’t have the belief that you might be injured if you walked in front of moving traffic, then you would not have the motivation to be cautious. If you did not believe that the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you wouldn’t feel motivated to put food in your mouth.

When it comes to breaking the cigarette addiction, those who are addicted to smoking cigarettes need to feel a strong compulsion to make the DECISION to break the smoking addiction. Motivation is based on the thoughts that we believe. So you’ll will need to DECIDE which ideas would compel you, if you believed them. Because when you feel compelled, you will quit smoking.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and self-hypnosis for motivation, it is much easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you might think. However, you do not believe the ideas that will motivate you to stop smoking at this point in time, or you would have already quit smoking.

For the purpose of this discussion, we need to define a few words.

DOUBT: Uncertain/distrustful/dubious – “maybe it’s this way, and maybe it is not.”

BELIEF: Trust/faith/tenet – A state of mind free of all doubt. In other words, belief means, “this is the way that it is.”

HIGHLY VALUED CRITERIA: What is most important to you, as an individual human being.

When you believe that if you continue to smoke cigarettes your highly valued criterion will be in danger, you will feel the motivation that you require to kick your smoking habit. We call this a negative motivator, due to the fact that it is a belief that motivates you by giving you dire feelings. Negative motivators are great for getting you to make decisions and changes in your life.

When you believe that if you do quit smoking cigarettes, that which is most important to you will become enhanced, then you will also feel the motivation that you require to stop smoking. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by creating pleasant feelings if you stop smoking.

The first mission is for you to DECIDE what the most important aspects of your existance are. Your most highly valued criteria are usually intangibles. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the fun, security, or freedom that money can purchase would be highly valued criteria. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to DECIDE what you will require yourself to believe to feel motivated to give up cigarettes. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with what you believe. Things do not have to be logical for you to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So don’t worry about logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, something very bad will happen to my most highly valued criteria.”

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you will happen or what you want. Never state what won’t happen. Eliminate the “not” word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children’s welfare is your most highly valued criteria.

WRONG: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won’t be doing my kid’s health any good.”

CORRECT: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children’s health.”

Next, create a list of positive motivators. “I believe that if I quit smoking: (something very important will be enhanced).”

WRONG: “I believe that if I stop smoking, I won’t give my kids cancer.”

CORRECT: “I believe that if I quit smoking, my children will be safe because I will eliminate their exposure to the dangers of my secondhand smoke.”

The next process is to make changes to the computer codes Stored in your brain to make yourself believe these new ideas. Now for a revelation: Your beliefs have nothing to do with your reality. Instead, your beliefs have everything to do with what your perception of reality is. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that you see things.

Our belief systems are based in our unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is like a computer. Computers don’t reason. What goes in controls what comes out. To demonstrate, I want you to think of anythingsomething that you actually believe right now without the slightest bit of doubt. Make it a belief that makes you feel great.

For instance, it’s easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental picture that makes you experience that feeling of love.

I’m going to ask some questions, and there aren’t any right or wrong answers.

Is your mental image a moving picture, or a still?

Is it in color, or in black and white?

Is it close or far?

Is it focused or fuzzy?

Is it normally bright, overly bright, or dim?

Is there a border on it?

Is it borderless?

Is it a panorama?

It doesn’t matter what your answers are just write them down. These are the computer codes that your unconscious mind uses to display your feelings of belief. In this case they are the codes for positive belief, because you have chosen a belief that gives you a good feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief.

Every positive belief picture is bright and focused. If yours aren’t, then you probably don’t really have total belief. An element of doubt is most likely present. So find another belief to calibrate.

If you think of something that you doubt, and you make a mental picture of it, one or more of these computer codes will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a bad feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes will be different.

In NLP we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need to calibrate a negative belief. So repeat the same exact process, but do so using an idea that you already believe, that makes you feel terrible.

Once you have calibrated both your positive and your negative beliefs, it is a very easy matter to manipulate your beliefs so you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to quit smoking.

So, to summarize, using the above example: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will make my kids ill.”

1. Sense how motivated you feel to quit smoking.

2. Make a mental picture that illustrates the above belief.

3. Adjust the codes (visual submodalities) of the image to force them to match the mental codes from your calibrated negative belief.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your mental image) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, go up to the right. This will help you to quickly memorize the belief.

5. Now sense how well motivated you feel to stop smoking cigarettes. Do you feel more motivated? Do you feel less motivated? Or are your feelings the same?

By using this procedure you can make yourself believe almost anything by making an image in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental image so that it matches your calibrated belief images.

And if you have a belief that is retarding your progress, you can use the same method to change that belief to doubt, by changing one or two of the submodalities and memorizing it that way.

Now that you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to stop smoking, you will stop smoking cigarettes. A DECISION to quit means: I’m quitting no matter what I have to go through. If you are similar to most people, you won’t want it to feel bad and you do not have to. Because there are several hypnotic and NLP methods that can drastically reduce, or even completely eliminate the discomforts of withdrawal from the cigarette smoking addiction. And you can read about them in this library of unique hypnosis articles.

I also host a free entertaining video filled with quit smoking tips. It is titled “How To Stop Smoking The Easy Way” It is available both on my site as well as most of the Web 2.0 video sites.

The Best Life Diet is a well-known lifestyle program for losing weight. It is best known as one of the diet programs endorsed by Oprah Winfrey. Dedicated users of this plan may expect gradual weight loss and better health over time. It is fairly simple to follow, with only three phases, few limitations, and steady lifestyle changes that promote natural weight loss.

The initial phase of the diet is called Phase One, and lasts up to four weeks. During this stage, dieters gradually begin to get physically active and change their dietary habits. Dieters are supposed to eat one snack and three meals each day, avoid eating two hours before bed, and take vitamin supplements every day. Unlike some other diet plans, the first phase of the Best Life diet program is more followable and gives dieters a greater chance at succeeding with this plan.

Phase Two of the program lasts approximately one month or longer, depending on your progress. During this stage, dieters continue a healthy approach to dieting and increased physical activity. Dieters also work on fighting some of the underlying issues that prevent weight loss, such as emotional eating and appetite control issues. Dieters track their weight loss with weekly weigh-ins and develop healthy diet and exercise strategies that let them reach their desired weight.

Phase Three is the maintenance stage, a stage found in many lifestyle diet programs. During phase three, dieters cut more unhealthy foods from their diets and consume healthier, unprocessed foods. Dieters can still eat a wide variety of foods, even the ones that are not considered “healthy,” in moderation. This balanced approach to eating allows dieters to eat the foods they love without guilt or deprivation. Dieters also stick to an exercise plan in order to stay at a healthy weight.

One of the best parts about the Best Life diet program is the number of foods that you are allowed to eat. During Phases One and Two, relatively few foods are actually prohibited, but there are six categories of foods that you must avoid eating. These foods are white bread, fried foods, soft drinks, foods with trans-fats, regular pasta made with white flour (whole grain pasta is allowed), and high-fat dairy products. Dieters can eat these foods again during Phase Three, but for at least two months during the first two phases, these foods are all restricted.

Overall, the Best Life diet program offers a good plan for weight loss, but even the best diet plans will not work if dieters can’t stick to them. The most challenging aspect of this and other weight loss programs is staying committed and being able to successfully beat the psychological obstacles that prevent people from losing weight. This is why weight loss hypnotherapy is an ideal complement to any diet. Hypnosis is perfect as a weight loss aid because it treats the underlying issues that prevent dieters from losing weight.

One issue hypnosis therapy successfully treats is emotional eating. Men and women develop the habit of emotional eating when they eat in response to their feelings, such as when they feel worried or bored. This creates a “conditioned response” mechanism so people tend to overeat when they experience certain feelings, even when they aren’t truly hungry. Hypnosis therapy works by helping the unconscious mind break the association between food and our feelings. When we no longer feel an unnecessary urge to eat, we experience natural appetite control and can lose weight effectively.

Motivation is another area in which hypnosis can help a failing dieter. Hypnosis therapy prevents dieters from forgetting their desire to lose weight and keeps them dedicated. Some of the questions people on the Best Life program are directed to ask themselves are how they became overweight, what is their motivation for losing weight, and what has prevented them from losing weight in the past. A well designed hypnotherapy program will also address these questions to make people unconsciously and consciously feel a duty to lose weight. Hypnotherapy helps people build a positive attitude and stay on track with weight reduction goals.

According to the Best Life diet, the keys to success for taking off weight are in portion size control, selecting nutritious and satisfying foods, and getting regular exercise. These things help men and women naturally lose weight. You can get this natural weight loss through hypnosis by teaching yourself techniques from a good diet hypnotherapy CD program. Combined with the Best Life plan, hypnosis therapy is powerful tool for weight loss that can help many dieters become permanently fit and slim.

How many inner arguments have you had with yourself about your smoking addiction? How many times have you complained to family and friends that you want to end the habit but seem to go on smoking despite the dangers and the expense? And how many programs have you tried that just didn’t succeed? If you are like most people struggling with smoking, you will remember such shattered hopes and may have felt nothing will really work for you. Unless you tried stop smoking hypnosis, you may have been on target.

If you fervently want to cease smoking, neurolinguistic therapy with hypnosis is the reasonable choice for reliable cures. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can zone in on the most significant reasons that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and support to be successful once and for all. This is not smoke and mirrors, but a proven treatment approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with recognized certification and a strong code of ethics.

Hypnotherapy doesn’t override values and a reliable hypnotist will protect your rights and privacy just the same as any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is verified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who adheres to their stringent ethical and professional standards. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also protect clients from mental, physical or verbal abuse, and make outside referrals as needed.

A well trained hypnotherapist has the experience and training to address problem behavior, and stop smoking hypnosis is the second most regular type they practice. Using methods that are considered state of the art which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing support of stop smoking self hypnosis CD’s as well as any pharmacological modalities a primary care physician might also prescribe for a patient. Using medical hypnosis does not mean other measures are prohibited, but they may not be needed at all.

The reason that professionally used smoke cessation hypnotherapy is the most effective method to attain success is that it addresses the three basic concerns in smoking. No method can truly work that does not address each issue completely and correct the problems each causes. Most people believe that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important factor and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not true. If the addiction to the compound called nicotine were the only reason for failure, most smokers would not fail multiple times in their efforts to stop smoking for good.

Yes, nicotine is a terribly addictive substance and for most smokers the physical need is very real and there are withdrawal symptoms that are also real. But did you realize these last only a short time? In fact, every bit of nicotine is eliminated out of the system in just 72 hours or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal discomforts and not the reality that causes the most distress and which may prevent even trying to quit at all. Yet quitting without therapy has an average 5% rate of success! Stop smoking hypnotherapy reduces fear of withdrawal symptoms and greatly reduces the effect of any that do result.

Another component of smoking cigarettes is that it provides relaxation, just as sucking on a pacifier soothes and calms a baby. Many people treat stress and anxiety with some form of oral soothing like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can replace the comfort factor obtained from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the strong cravings and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be trained to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are positive, not negative. Neurolinguistic techniques can train the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.

Lastly, part of the smoking bondage is plain old Pavlovian conditioning. Smokers learn to connect smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of the cigarette after physical relations to automatically lighting a cigarette while consuming alcohol or viewing TV or chatting on the phone. Here quit smoking hypnotherapy can permanently eliminate the association, and when the link is no longer there, there will be no stimulus to have a smoke when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is trained to associate beneficial things with the former triggers, or to recall the advantages of quitting or the negatives of the smoke.

A certified clinical practitioner will use both positive and negative associations to replace programmed associations with smoking, selecting those most meaningful for an individual patient. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only method that can fine tune the treatment to each of the three factors in smoking and root them out. Anyone knows quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation hypnosis effectively make you equipped to support yourself at any time.

For many people, the road to individual change and self-improvement is a long and winding path filled with difficult barriers. Pharmaceutical companies in particular have capitalized on and created gigantic fortunes because of the elusive search for the “Magic Pill” that will answer all of your prayers. As it turns out, there is a secret formula for success, and it begins in the human mind.

One of the laws of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is that “there is a positive intention behind all behaviors.” And based on that law, when it comes to eliminating negative behaviors, there is a formula that we must always keep in mind. I’ll let you in on the secret formula in a minute. But I have a riddle for you to solve first.

Riddle: A preacher made his son drink lye, which burned out the child’s voice box. What was the positive intent behind his behavior?

If you are like 99.9% of the clients who have visited my office since 1978, you’ll indignantly say something like: “There isn’t any.” But you would be completely mistaken. To answer this riddle, you must detach the behavior from the positive objective of the behavior.

The minister’s child was cursing. And the minister believes that if a person curses, his soul will be condemned to Hell. So the answer is that the preacher was burning out his son’s voice box so that he couldn’t curse. By doing so, he was saving his child’s soul from being predestined to Hell.

The secret formula for successful personal change works as follows:

We should always respect the positive intent behind each behavior. If we have a compulsion to exercise a behavior that we do not like, we can easily get rid of the impulse to use that behavior. What we must do is to find a different behavior to substitute in its place. To be successful, the new behavior must be as available and effective at accomplishing the same outcome, but be more consciously acceptable. We call this a REFRAME.

When clients come into my practice, the first thing I do is to take a careful case history. In this instance, let’s pretend that they come to me and ask me to help them lose weight. Conventional wisdom tells us that the two main reasons that people eat too much are: (1) to reduce stress; (2) because eating can be a conditioned response. For instance, if a person eats while they are talk on the phone, they will develop a conditioned response, and thereafter, every time they talk on the phone they will get cravings for food.

However, the above answer only takes into consideration the possible positive intention behind the behavior of eating. What if they also have another behavior that is concerned in the equation? For example: What if being obease is also a behavior for this person? I can hear your mind grinding right now as you think, “Being overweight isn’t a behavior, what are you talking about?”

Sorry but you could be 100% off the mark. Here is one classic textbook example that will clearly demonstrate the fact that being fat can be a behavior. It can be a behavior because it can supply secondary gains.

Example: A woman is in love. Her partner leaves her, and her heart is broken. Her unconscious wants to protect her emotionally and prevent her from ever having her heart broken again. So it motivates her to get chubby to keep her out of relationships. By doing that she won’t get her heart broken again.

Everyone is totally different. And sometimes there are unconscious elements at work that cause neurotic behaviors. These are elements that are different for each person.

Here’s another case in point: A woman comes into my practice complaining of an unmanageable compulsion to eat too much at mealtime. During my case history, upon questioning, the woman explains how she was never able to please her dad.

During an age regression, we learned that one of her earliest memories was of having dinner with her family. And her father was insisting in an authoritive voice that she clean her plate, even though she was bursting at the seams. So she finished the food left on her plate out of fear, and dad commended her for eating everything. It was one of the only times in her life that she could recall her father telling her that he was happy with her.

Shoot forward to the present. Dad’s been dead for many years, but the unconscious program he created is still operational. She still has a powerful urge to clean her plate, even if she is feeling stuffed to the gills, because by cleaning the plate, in her subconscious mind she is getting dad’s approval, and eliminating her fear!

So if you find it difficult to make personal changes, remember that there is a positive intention that causes all behaviors. And the formula for successful change is to alternate another behavior that will accomplish the same secondary gains, but in a way that is more consciously suitable to you, as an individual. The most effective way to get your subconscious to assume the responsibility for making this kind of alteration for you is through an NLP 6-Step Reframe.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a long-term illness that occurs because of injury to the lungs. This term is used to identify three lung problems categorized as COPD. These include emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis.

Asthma starts when a person’s body views part of the environment, such as chemicals, tobacco smoke, or foods, as hazardous. The body activates the immune system to release biochemicals called histamines. These proteins produce inflammation in the lungs so the body can ward off invaders. This stiffens the lungs and impairs breathing.

People can be diagnosed with asthma at any stage of life. A key way family members and friends can assist people with asthma is to quit smoking cigarettes, since secondhand smoke is deadly. If someone just diagnosed with asthma smokes, he or she should stop smoking immediately.

Physicians also classify chronic bronchitis as a type of COPD. This health problem develops when a person has smoked for a number of years. Tobacco smoke causes tar and bacteria to become trapped in the lungs. The bacteria result in recurrent inflammation of the bronchi, or airway tubes, of the lungs.

This disease scars and damages the lungs. Persons who have this condition have difficulty exercising or taking deep breaths. Because their airways are stiff and irritated, they develop shortness of breath with just a little activity. Often, if these people stop smoking, many of their breathing difficulties will lessen.

The third lung disease classified as COPD is emphysema. A person’s lungs have air sacs at the end of the bronchi. These grape-shaped sacs, also known as alveoli, expand and contract when a person breathes in and out. Patients who have emphysema become short of breath and are unable to breathe deeply or exhale completely because air stays trapped in these sacs. If these people find ways to stop smoking, these symptoms may get better.

Medicines and breathing exercises may help some individuals who have COPD. Despite these techniques, however, these individuals continue to have significant levels of anxiety. Having COPD is like being underwater and holding your breath. Even though you try to stay underwater longer, you need to breathe – now! Therefore, you rise to the surface and breathe deeply. Unfortunately, people with COPD cannot swim to the surface and take a deep breath.

Some stop smoking programs assist patients who have COPD. Most COPD patients understand that smoking worsens their breathing difficulties. Most have smoked for decades, however, which often makes trying to quit very hard.

Many stop smoking programs are available. Most coach clients to utilize the conscious mind to stop smoking. Because the dependency on smoking is deeply ingrained in a person’s unconscious, rarely do those who quit smoking with the help of programs stay quit without making changes at the unconscious level. Moreover, the majority of these techniques center on a smoker’s physical dependency on smoking, which comprises only about 10 percent of the addictive behavior.

Many stop smoking programs claim to help persons to learn to relax. The most effective ones employ Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. Polarity responses often occur with traditional hypnosis and straightforward post-hypnotic suggestions.

Ericksonian hypnosis employs metaphors, which communicate suggested thoughts that promote tranquility to the unconscious to help clients to overcome the propensity to do the opposite of what is suggested. Often, people who learn to relax through the use of the NLP Flash tool can manage stress and anxiety attacks more effectively. Therefore, they breathe better.

Ericksonian Hypnosis offers an innovative alternative way for helping people learn how to quit smoking. Professionals who practice this understand that the problem is rooted in the unconscious. Therefore, they aid clients in the subconscious, through stop smoking hypnosis. Contrary to the techniques used by traditional programs, hypnosis to quit smoking focuses on decreasing stress, psychological addiction, and habituation, which together make up nine-tenths of one’s smoking habit.

With Ericksonian hypnotherapy and NLP, these patients can have a better life. These techniques teach people with breathing problems to reduce anxiety. They also help eliminate subconscious associations between cigarettes and environmental factors. This extinguishes nicotine cravings. These methods provide hope to people with COPD.

Summary: Three chronic lung problems are classified as COPD. These are asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. Minimizing anxiety related to breathing and helping people find ways to stop smoking are two of the best ways to help people who have COPD live better lives. Ericksonian hypnosis and NLP techniques help people to control anxiety and stop smoking.

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!

Perhaps you have made a resolution to stop smoking? Good for you! Stopping smoking will be the smartest decision you possibly can make for yourself. Should you try to quit smoking cold turkey? Well, that may not be a sensible way to go about it. Do not get me wrong; every attempt you’re making to stop smoking is a good one. I simply want to help you identify the lowdown about giving up smoking cold turkey.

First of all you should know what your likelihood is of being successful once you attempt to give up smoking cigarettes without any form of help. Why don’t we just say your odds are not so hot. What studies show about quitting smoking cold turkey may vary but in general you only have about a 20% possibility of successfully giving up smoking cold turkey.

People who successfully quit smoking cold turkey often require numerous attempts to finally succeed. Once again, study results vary, but on average it takes approximately five tries to give up smoking cigarettes cold turkey before you’ll be able to expect to realize success and actually stop smoking.

Now, it’s true your level of willpower can improve your chances of achieving your goal, but determination just isn’t enough. Just about everybody who makes a decision to give up smoking cigarettes feels quite determined to start off. But as the cravings to smoke cigarettes start creeping in that dedication and “will power” start fading and before they know it they’re lighting up a smoke. They are left scratching their heads, feeling distressed, and questioning “what the heck just happened, I thought I was so determined.”

If you are intent on giving up smoking you might want to give some thought to getting some help. It is going to improve your odds of achieving your goal, and you will not need to have as many attempts to actually succeed, possibly only one attempt if you choose the best smoking cessation method.

Exactly what type of help is best? There are several options but there is one smoking cessation approach that has proven through test results to be highly successful at helping people break their cigarette smoking habit. I am referring to NLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming. It’s a form of hypnotherapy that mixes traditional smoking cessation hypnosis with better technology.

NLP is a kind of self-applied hypnotherapy, which means you do not have to see a hypnotherapist or to be put in a hypnotic trance. With NLP you just listen to a specifically formatted recording which is designed to put the listener in a highly peaceful and relaxed state. Once in this peaceful state the NLP recording works its magic targeting and taking out the subconscious cravings to smoke.

NLP has a different approach from the majority of quitting smoking products. Instead of trying to reduce the physical addiction to nicotine, NLP goes to the source of your smoking addiction and takes away the cravings to smoke from your subconscious. Once the cravings to light up are taken out it is quite easy to quit smoking. NLP is much more successful and much easier than attempting to quit smoking cold turkey.