Personal Development, Self Improvement, Motivation & Success
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Desire: A want, crave or a wish for Decision: Making up of one's mind / a verdict or judgment The motivation to exercise generally starts with a vague idea or notion that by exercising, something about one's life will improve. It may be their health, strength, endurance, appearance, love life, self-esteem, or even their safety. This vague idea or notion gives one their Desire to exercise. The source of each of our motivations is a belief. Think about it, if you did not believe that you could get burned if you touched a hot stove, you would not feel motivated to be careful. When it comes to starting a regular exercise program, you will need to feel a great deal of motivation to make that decision. And you'll need to feel a great deal more motivation to maintain a regular exercise program. Motivation is based on the ideas that we believe. So you will need to figure out what ideas will motivate you after you learn how to make yourself believe them. Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis for motivation, it's a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think it is. Right now you have a desire to exercise, but that desire by itself isn't strong enough. It hasn't motivated you to exercise regularly, because you don't really believe the ideas that are triggering those feelings of desire. Or maybe you do believe them, but they are not what you, as an individual, need to believe to feel motivated to exercise. 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 isn’t." Belief: Trust/faith/tenet - A state of mind devoid 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. When you actually believe that unless you start an exercise program, your highly valued criteria is in jeopardy, you will feel the motivation that you require to start exercising. We call this is a negative motivator, because it's a belief that motivates you by giving you bad feelings. Negative motivators are very powerful. When you believe that if you do exercise with regularity, your highly valued criteria will become enhanced, you will also feel the motivation that you require to exercise. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good feelings if you exercise. The first task is for you to figure out what your most highly valued criteria are. In other words, what are the most important things in your life? Here is a hint for you: Your most highly valued criteria are usually intangibles. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can provide would be. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper. Next you need to figure out what you need to believe to feel motivated to exercise. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don’t have to be logical for you to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So forget logic! The format for the negative motivator beliefs will be: "I believe that unless I exercise regularly, something bad will happen to my most highly valued criteria." Make sure that you state your beliefs in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. Never state what you don't want or what won't happen. Eliminate the "not" word from the beliefs. In this example we will say that feeling loved is your most highly valued criteria. Wrong: "I believe that if I remain in my current physical condition, I'm not going to be loved by anyone." Correct: "I believe that if I remain in my current physical condition, it's impossible for anyone to love me." Now take the list of your highly valued criteria, and create a list of positive motivators. "I believe that if exercise regularly: (something very important to me will be enhanced)." Again, write down the new ideas that you will need to believe. Make sure that you’ve stated them in the positive. Wrong: "I believe that if I exercise regularly, I won't be stopping anyone from loving me." Correct: "I believe that if I exercise regularly, It will be easy to find someone to love me." The next step is to modify the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these motivational ideas. Now for a shocker: Belief has nothing to do with logic or reality. But it does have everything to do with your perception of reality. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that we see things. Our belief systems are based in our unconscious mind. The unconscious is like a computer. Computers don't reason. The input controls the output. To demonstrate, I want you to think of anything that you already believe without the slightest bit of doubt. Make it a belief that makes you feel good. For instance, it's easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental image that makes you feel that 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? Whatever your answers are, write them down. These are the computer codes that your unconscious uses to indicate your feelings of belief. In this case they are the codes for positive belief because you've chosen a belief that gives you a good feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief. All positive belief pictures are bright and focused. If yours aren't, you probably don't really have total belief. You probably have an element of doubt. So find another belief to base your calibration of belief on. If you think of something that you doubt, and you make a mental image 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 probably be different. In NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) we call these computer codes Submodalities. In this case they are called Visual Submodalities. Now you will want 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 bad. Once you have calibrated your positive and your negative beliefs, it's a simple matter to manipulate what you believe to motivate yourself to exercise. So, to summarize, using the above example: "I believe that if I remain in my current physical condition, it's impossible for anyone to love me." 1. Sense how motivated you feel to exercise. 2. Make a mental image that illustrates the above belief. 3. Adjust the computer codes (visual submodalities) of the image to match the submodalities from your calibrated negative belief. 4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your image) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, to the opposite. This will help you to quickly memorize the belief. 5. Now sense how motivated to exercise you feel. Do you feel more motivated? Less motivated? Or the same? Using this technique you can make yourself believe almost anything by making a picture in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental image to match your calibrated belief pictures. And if you have a belief that is holding you back, you can use the same technique 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 exercise, or do anything else that you desire. My "Urge To Exercise!" program utilizes a combination of Traditional Hypnosis, Ericksonian Hypnosis, and NLP to create a powerful urge to start an exercise program, and then exercise consistently. [Read our review of Alan Densky's Weight Loss Hypnosis] © 2006 By Alan B. Densky. This document may be re-printed as long as it is not altered and the author's name and clickable web address are retained. Alan B. Densky, CH. Neuro-VISION, Inc. Weight Loss Hypnosis CDs, Quit Smoking Hypnosis CDs Mr. Densky is the developer of the Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis Technology, which received a US Patent because of it's uniqueness and effectiveness. Mr. Densky's latest undertaking has been to make the Neuro-VISION Appetite & Smoking Control Videos, and a long list of his other recorded hypnosis titles available to the general public thru his company's web site. |
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