The Challenge in Changing Habits

Habits conducive to success set a person apart from those who have failure reflexes. Both tendencies act on pre-set mental routine based on a trigger. Neither cycle can be totally discarded. But each can be replaced by a newly ingrained pattern.

You may become aware of your auto reflex that keeps you from getting ahead. Next, you contemplate on overriding the undesirable routine. Let’s say that you have a habit of eating sweets which cause weight gain.?

Any attempt to fully dispose of this embedded practice will prove futile. The reason is that your subconscious is not convinced that you want to stop, solely on your word. But you can sway your controlling mind to accept a better tendency with action.

The process for rewriting the embedded mental script is to upload new instructions. Think about what made you develop a liking for sugary foods and drinks in the first place. Chances are that you kept telling yourself that sweets are delicious and satisfying over an extended period.?

Subsequently, the urge for this enjoyment would be prompted by either your imagination or your senses of smell, taste and sight. Mouthwatering delicacies become irresistible, and you succumb to sudden appetite for desserts and sugared beverages.

You can come to terms with yourself. Your resolve is to lose weight by cutting sweets out of your diet. Telling yourself that you are going to stop giving in to the cravings is not sufficient to convince your unconscious mind. This approach can incite concern within habitual realm of the mind.?

Deprivation can result in a more acute hunger for the things you expect to put aside. In this denial contest, guess who is going to win? The victor is not going to be the conscious person, but the subconscious one.

A practical approach is to change the sweets habit through thought inversion.? First, simply adopt a new personal policy. Set different instructions in self-talk. Consciously, invoke your revised preference. That is, “I am resolved to enjoy unsweetened foods and drinks.”?

Next, visualize the reverse thought in favor of sugarless intake. You now deem desserts and beverages having unpleasant taste, smell and sight. In the face of subconscious temptation, proclaim, “I relish unsweetened treats more.”

Now follows the most challenging part of the new policy application. For nineteen to thirty days, you must abstain during enticing moments and routinely affirm your pleasure in sweet-free goodies. Once past the abstinence period of up to a month, your unconscious can become indoctrinated. At that point, the belief that sweets are undesirable is internalized. Going forward, you continue to steer away from the former addiction with little or no compunction. Frank Fracasso's Blogs are also posted here.