Regaining Self-Control

How do we start to adjust that Habit that bothers us so much?

A habitual behaviour is one we do subconsciously which requires little to no effort. They can be very useful to us like driving a car without needing to concentrate or think of turning it on, placing on the blinker, looking into the mirror before slowly pressing the accelerator and so on. We do it all automatically after driving for just a few weeks. Same for a young child learning to use a toothbrush. At first they must concentrate on moving the brush up and down, round and round yet after a short while they can simply brush without thinking.

If you think of all the things you needed to learn that are now so automatic like getting dressed, tying your shoelaces, driving, reading a book, learning letters and numbers – all the things we needed to learn it is amazing how we learn to do it all. It happens every time we start a new job as well, learning people’s names, their roles, our role and job, when after a short while it is so automatic.

If you have been eating poorly, smoking, drinking excessively, gambling, any of these bad habitual activities we feel is so difficult to stop or break this pattern, is it really?

Many of you may have had a pacifying dummy or blanket you relied on as a child but guess what, you haven’t needed that for years, you either outgrew it, mum removed it or you developed a new activity to replace it. This is exactly the same we do when we wish to adjust a habit that no longer serves us well. When we become adults, the behaviors, which may have served us well in the past, may no longer be appropriate. Many times, the behaviors we learned at an early age, if carried into adulthood, would result in negative consequences.

We can feel many of these behaviours and habits are needed by us to cope with living pressures however we do not need them at all in fact hundreds of thousands of people cope well without these debilitating habits. You hopefully never used them as a child and often childhood can present great pressures and stress up on us. You managed then and you can certainly manage now as a more intelligent and experienced adult.

How do we do this then? We find something else to assist up to manage, cope or use. With a smoker I embed the use of breathing fresh clean air instead of smoking up your lungs, instead of eating dreadful fatty foods that clog us up and weigh us down I embed small light and healthy yummy tasting foods, instead of gambling or excess drinking I embed a variety of different strategies that you chose to use for yourself.

Question is really - Are we in charge of ourselves? and Why have you became the person you are?

The subconscious mind is really the most powerful part of your brain. It is possible to change these deeply held, invisible beliefs so that you can stop fighting against yourself and bring your conscious and subconscious beliefs into alignment.

It really isn’t rocket science and using Hypnotherapy is a natural effect that occurs when the person truly wants to make the change they desire. Is there some reliance on self-control; obviously there is, yet how easy to achieve our desired outcome or goal when we can imagine the end result, know the steps to take and effortlessly move toward that outcome every day as a new  beneficial habit. With embedded commands enabling you to do the thing you desire it can easily take that negative belief away allowing you to believe this is achievable and you can in fact do it for yourself, you family and for your life.

 

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