Using NLP and Self-Hypnosis for Habit Change (Part 2)

Welcombe to Part 2 of Using NLP and Self-Hypnosis for Habit Change. I hope you enjoyed part 1.

Having decided you really want change you have taken the essential step towards it.
What attitude and behaviour would you like instead of the old habit?

It is not enough just to not want the habit; you need to develop a new positive way of behaving that meets all the needs of the old habit.

Would the ability to simply relax and smile at the old behaviour be a good thing? Would the ability to notice its pull and be able to laugh and dismiss it be a good as well?

I will assume it as a good outcome to find yourself disinterested and bored by the old habit so that eventually you forget about it completely.

This is the part where change occurs. Find somewhere where you can safely relax. Close your eyes and focus on the flow of your breath letting thoughts come and go but remaining focused on you breath as you gently scan down your body relaxing all your muscles from your head to your toes. While you are very relaxed and comfortable you are going to use your memory and imagination to change your habit.

Make a living picture in your mind of all the negative things you feel about the habit, its unattractiveness, its unnecessary risks, its silliness and its waist of time and money and all the times of acute embarrassment you might have felt about it. Make the picture/feeling as strong and as uncomfortable as possible. Now say something to yourself like" no more" "enough" never again" some expression that lets you know with certainty that you are about to change that old redundant habit for a better way of behaving not because you feel guilty in some way but because you want the freedom to choose. You choose to be free.

Relax inside with your focus on your breath and begin to build a better picture in your mind. How you want to be, how you want to behave and all the associated feelings of freedom and achievement you feel by being free of that old limiting behaviour.

Begin to smile inside and out as you push the old picture and habit away while you step inside the new picture of you freedom with all its associated good feelings, really live it through your own eyes and ears experience the freedom fully and with pleasure allowing yourself the chance to step into freedom. Set a word, a picture or a physical feeling to the picture/idea and use its power whenever that old pattern shows up keep practising this simple skill and very soon you will be completely free of that old habit.