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

Is it really possible to create super motivation in a half hour or less?

Think about the impact this question could have on your life if the answer is true. Any action, any behavior, any task that you now put off or hate to do, could instantly become pleasurable and you could condition yourself to do it without all the endless self reproach you probably inflict upon yourself now.

Well the truth is that the science of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) has made it possible for you to create such instant super motivation in your life. And this motivation is not created with so-called "willpower". Instead this motivation is created by linking pleasure or pain with the behavior you want to change.

In the first article in this series, I put it like this: 

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.

Now in the last article, I left you hanging (sorry) as I began to explain how to use this technique. We were using a hypothetical example that you are a college student who is having difficulty motivating yourself to study on a regular basis.

At the same time, we imagined that you also LOVE to ski. You cannot wait until winter comes and the snow starts to fall so you can head to the mountains. Absolutely nothing in your life is as much fun to you as skiing.

When I ended the last article, we were beginning to show how a link or association can be created between studying and the pleasure you derive from skiing. (By the way, if you are waiting for an apology from me for keeping you in suspense, don't hold your breath. I WANT you to read this article and the ones that follow it as well).

Step one: Visualize yourself doing the target behavior (studying). As you visualize this, create a trigger for this by doing something like pinching your right earlobe. Do this for a few minutes until pinching your right earlobe is linked in your mind with this visual image of yourself studying.

Step two: Now visualize yourself doing the thing you enjoy doing (skiing). As you visualize this, create a second trigger by doing something like pinching your left earlobe. Do this for a few moments until pinching your left earlobe causes you to feel the pleasure you normally experience when you are skiing.

Step three: Merge these two visual images together by pinching both earlobes (or whatever stimuli you gave yourself) simultaneously. For a few moments, the two images of yourself skiing and studying will flash back and forth until they create a single impression. Don't sweat this step. It will probably happen before you are aware it has been done.

Now there is still some fine tuning to do on this technique (I still want you to keep reading the articles in this series) but for now, when you want to motivate yourself to study, all you must do is pinch both earlobes simultaneously until you feel the same pleasurable sensations of skiing when you imagine yourself studying.

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