Sunday, 23 September 2012

NLP in Action - How To Create Super Motivation (Part One)

In his wonderful book, Awaken the Giant Within, Anthony Robbins says: 
Every change you've ever accomplished in your life is the result of changing your neuro-associations about what means pan and what means pleasure
This means that every change we create in our behavior results from changing how we associate that behavior to either pleasure or pain. Our mind automatically creates these links, with or without our conscious awareness that an association exists.
Suppose you want to start working out more, but you find yourself putting it off, dreading it, or finding anything else to do instead of working out. Why is this? You understand all the wonderful health benefits that come from working out. You also understand that working out will make you feel and look better, yet you still can't seem to get motivated to take the first step.
In all likelihood, your subconscious mind has linked exercise to something unpleasant. Perhaps you had a high school coach (like my track coach) who liked to say "no pain, no gain." After an experience like that, it is understandable that you might link exercise to pain or something unpleasant.
So how do you create super motivation for some new action or behavior? It really is not very difficult at all. In the next few articles, we will discuss how to identify a new behavior you want to create. Then we will learn how to find something that already gives you pleasure. And then we will learn how to link the desired new behavior to the thing that you already find pleasurable.
Using a few simple techniques, you will learn how to create the same amount of pleasure in the new action you want to create, that you already receive from the thing already existing in your life.
Finally, in those cases in which you want to rid yourself of a behavior that you are already doing, you will learn how to replace that unwanted behavior with a new behavior that gives you greater pleasure.

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