Walking is well known to help one lose weight, improve cardiovascular fitness, and feel more energetic. It’s also relaxing, but it may actually become boring and routine in time. One way to keep your walks enjoyable is to listen to walking audio tapes.

There are many different types of walking audio tapes available. The most obvious of these would be tapes of music, whether taped ourselves onto blank audio cassette tapes or pre-recorded sets of music. Either way, these tapes have the same purpose- to get the walker energized and ready to move.

Walking audio tapes featuring motivational speakers are great for people who walk as a form of exercise. Many tapes have been recorded by self help professionals to help keep people motivated and to help them overcome obstacles that prevent them from reaching their goals.

When one is walking for exercise, it is the perfect time to take a quiet moment to listen to a self improvement professional. Time spent walking affords the body valuable exercise while also providing the mind with a good setting to absorb new ideas. Walking in a beautiful area further enhances the experience.

Another valuable option for a person who walks for exercise is to use a blank audio cassette to enhance their walking experience by recording self affirmations on to the tape and listen as they exercise. Self affirmations, otherwise known as intentions, are spoken statements of what a person wants in their life. A sample intention is, “I am healthy, energized and in love with the shape of my body because of walking.” It is important to keep affirmations in the present tense.

Many self-improvement professional suffer from pre-recorded affirmations. It is commonly accepted that recording your own results in the success of the process. One will benefit better if he spends time listening to walking audio tapes which is the perfect environment to listen to self affirmations.

Listening to tapes while walking can serve a number of purposes, from entertainment to motivation to self improvement, but most importantly they should help the walker pass the time in a more enjoyable manner and ensure the person sticks with the walking workout schedule.

Benefits of walking are weight-loss/cardiovascular fitness/increased energy/relaxation. To make walking enjoyable one has to listen to walking audio tapes. The walkers can either record songs/self-affirmations onto a branded blank audio cassette tape such as tdk audio cassette or purchase pre-recorded tapes from the market. A tape recorded by self-help professional helps in motivating walkers. Alternately, one can listen to recorded self-affirmations for motivation. Self-recorded affirmation is better than professional recorded affirmation. Walking for exercise in a beautiful environment allows time to listen to the advice of a professional and space for the mind to absorb new ideas. Tapes give entertainment, motivation for walking with enjoyment.

- Menachem Green

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When you hear the word ‘hypnosis’, you typically think of a doctor dangling a swinging watch in front of a patient or a comedian on stage ‘hypnotizing’ people to do funny things. While this type of hypnosis is useful, there are many other uses of hypnosis, including one that you can use to persuade people without them even realizing you are doing it. It’s called conversational hypnosis, and even you can use it to convince people of anything you want!

Man has actually used this type of hypnosis for quite some time, you may have even had it happen to you and were unaware because it is so subtle. That’s because you won’t have someone asking you to count backwards or swinging a watch in your face, you can actually put people into a state of hypnosis or autosuggestion simply with the words you use and they way you use them in normal every day conversation.

Conversational hypnosis is an interesting means of ’selling’ or swaying someone to your side, It simply uses conversational techniques to magnify the art of persuasion and lower the defenses of your subjects conscious or critical mind and get right into the subconscious which will be more open to your suggestions. This is much like what we do every day - try to persuade your co-workers to go with your idea, try to get someone to do you a favor or to get agreement on something. The difference is that if you knew the techniques of conversational hypnosis you would get them to agree a lot more often!

You can use conversational or, as it is sometimes called, covert hypnosis on one person or on a whole crowd of people. It uses intonations, language patterns and vocal timing to influence others. It can be learned easily by anyone and can be used in most situations. People that use it are able to engross their subjects in what they have to say, hypnotizing them into empathy and respect and changing their minds easily and readily into agreement.

In fact, perhaps the most interesting use was by Dr. Milton Erikson who used conversational hypnosis to help his patients in the 1940’s and 1950’s because hypnosis itself was banned. However, someone let the cat out of the bag and Dr Erikson was called to a disciplinary hearing by the American Medical Association. Ironically, he was able to emply these techniques on the doctors of the AMA and instead of taking away his license, the charges were dropped and the next year the AMA dropped the ban on hypnosis allowing it to be used by any doctor who wanted to!

While some may see conversational hypnosis as a way of manipulating people, it can also be seen as simply a more persuasive use of conversation. While some will try to use it for bad purposes, there is no need to be afraid of it since your subconscious will never allow you to be forced into anything that would bring you harm. You can use it effectively to get what you want - be it getting someone to agree with your opinion, implement one of your ideas or even buy one of your products. It is a tool that can allow you to enjoy life and get everything you ever wanted, while also making the lives of those you care about better too!

If you are interested in learning more about conversational hypnosis, please visit www.hypnosislearningguide.com where you will get the latest on how you can better your life through these interesting conversational techniques.

- Lee Dobbins

Weight loss is the decrease of fat, bodily fluids, adipose tissues and lean mass leading to a decrease of body weight. Appetite is an urge to drink and eat for pleasure. It is significantly different from hunger, because you only feel hungry when your body doesn’t have sufficient reserves to sustain itself and consequently signals its need for nourishment.

Appetite is usually mistaken for hunger, but they are two different feelings with different causes. Hunger is a physical alert that your body needs nourishment and it would be unhealthy if you tried to fight it. Appetite, though, is mainly caused by psychological factors and does not answer a physiological need.

Indeed, when stimulated, the mouth is a source of pleasure and comfort, which explains why some people enjoy chewing gum for instance. It is the same reason that might explain why people enjoy having a cigarette in their mouths, or why they can have the impression of being hungry without actually needing food.

This pleasure and comfort may be unconsciously sought after by the mind when facing a stressful situation, which is why anxiety and stress can often cause the desire to eat. Our mind also usually unconsciously associates two actions together, so that each time you do one of those actions your mind creates the desire to do the other at the same time. This is why you might feel the desire to eat when around friends, sitting at a table or when watching television. Weight gain is also a common side effect of several medications.

Even a little appetite issue may be seriously disabling and a possible risk for you health. It cannot only make you gradually more anxious about your physical appearance, but it may also threaten your health in the long run. Excessive appetite can be responsible for obesity, respiratory difficulties, high blood pressure, musculoskeletal problems, and cholesterol as well as potentially lethal conditions such as cancer, diabetes and gallbladder disease.

Having control over your appetite would allow you to easily get significantly healthier and get back in shape. You would not have to constantly worry about keeping a diet anymore, nor about the nutritional properties of your food. You will be able to eat what you want, when you want to.

Several different drugs claiming to help control appetite or lose weight have been sold on the market over the last few years. A lot of those miracle drugs will at best solely have a placebo effect. Others have had better results but sometimes were banned from the market because of their dangerous side effects. Most of those pills have a chemical structure similar to that of amphetamines and present analogous adverse effects. There are nonetheless natural ways of achieving weight loss which, do not present any adverse effects, such as weight loss through hypnotherapy.

Many people will tell you that solely diet or exercise are effective ways of losing weight. This is true to a certain extent, nonetheless it is hardly possible for an active individual to keep a diet or find the time to exercise and it is even harder to find the necessary motivation. Furthermore, neither dieting nor exercise will fight the psychological factors that increase appetite. This means they won’t reduce your appetite, and that you will have to endure this desire to eat all the time, without being able to satisfy it.

This is why weight loss hypnosis has seduced a lot of people trying to lose weight. Weight loss through hypnosis works on the unconscious level of your mind and will help you greatly reduce your appetite. But hypnotherapy weight loss can also give you the motivation you need to go out and exercise. Through suggestion, weight loss hypnosis will help you find this motivation quickly and simply!

Weight loss hypnosis allows you to diminish your appetite in order to lose weight. This means it will be much simpler to lose weight because weight loss through hypnosis will help you to eliminate the unnecessary cravings for nourishment. With hypnotism for weight loss, your unconscious mind will be reprogrammed to follow the eating habits of a naturally thin person. In other words, weight loss hypnosis will use the power of your unconscious to change your eating habits.

Weight loss hypnosis sessions can eliminate the unconscious associations, which can trigger the urge to eat, and will induce appetite reduction. Self hypnosis weight loss, like all methods using hypnosis, will also allow you to become much more relaxed. Weight loss through hypnosis can thus readily relieve you from any urge to eat that might be triggered by anxiety.

To summarize: Even if appetite is often confused with hunger, it does not respond to a physiological need for nourishment but is strongly influenced by our psychological state. As such, weight loss hypnosis is much more effective than diets that only focus on physiological factors. And unlike drugs, it is free of adverse effects. Weight loss through hypnosis is a safe, efficient and effortless method to gain control over your appetite and lose weight.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping clients with appetite suppression and weight loss since 1978. Visit his self hypnosis website to view his Free hypnosis videos, or learn about his effective self hypnosis weight loss programs or his Patented video weight loss through hypnosis programs.

- Alan B. Densky, CH

Do you recall the commercial that was run by Timex when we were younger, it takes a lickin’ and keep on tickin’. Well, Timex has updated that recently. The new sales slogan is Keep On. Keep on Moving, Keep on Pushing, Keep on Daring, Keep on Stretching, Keep on Growing. These are not your fathers or mothers Timex anymore, although you can still get some of the traditional styles and looks, todays Timex Watches are as sleek and functional as any other watch brand out there on the market. We will take a look at what Timex has to offer and some of the categories and lines of Timex Watches available on the market.

Timex has a complete line of Men’s Watches. The Health and Fitness line has the Speed and Distance GPS watch that utilizes the renowned GPS technology, the Speed Distance System utilizes a network of global positioning satellites to precisely track how far and how fast you are running, biking, rowing or skiing. Anytime. Anywhere in the world. The Timex Men’s Watches Health and Fitness line also has a complete selection of Heart Rate monitors.

The Timex Ladies line of watches runs the full gamet from Dress & Fashion to Sports & Outdoors along with the Women’s Iroman Line. Some of the best-sellers include the Cavatina watches that are Sleek Fashion Watches that are perfect for Day or Evening Wear or the Easy Readers with Large, Easy to read numbers and faces with classic designs. One of the favorite, classics is the Timex Womens Red Indiglo Night Light T2G101 womens watch. This particular watch has a red leather band, a small dressy dial that shows all 12 numbers large enough for you to see without swinting, and a special feature that just makes the entire package come together. When you press the button to activate the Indiglo night-lite, the watch face illuminates in a beautiful red color, tying in perfectly with the band. Other color indiglo timex women’s watches are Green, Burnt Orange and Purple.

Whether you are talking about the Traditional Timex Ironman 30-Lap Watch or the updated Combo Dress Ironman Watches, the constant that describes exactly the dependability that you know you are getting is the Ironman name. Most Timex Ironman Watches feature Water Resistancy. Indiglo night-light. How could a watch be called a Timex without it featuring the Trademark Timex INDIGLO night-light feature. This feature has been gracing Timex Watches since 1992 and has helped many a jogger to track their time on those late night or early morning training sessions.

So whether you are a man or a women, Timex has a watch for you.

Robert Earl is the head timekeeper of LotsofWatches.com. LotsofWatches.com showcases the line of MP3 Watches, featuring the MP3 Watch - Men’s 1 GB of Music Wristwatch at LoW Prices.

- Robert Earl

For many people, the road to personal transformation and self-improvement is a long and winding road filled with tricky barriers. Drug companies in particular have capitalized on and created gigantic fortunes based on the elusive search for the "Magic Pill" that will make all of your dreams come true. As it turns out, there is a secret formula for success, and it begins in the human mind. One of the laws of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is that "there is a positive intention behind all behaviors." And based on that law, when it comes to getting rid of negative behaviors, there is an equation that we must always keep in mind. I’ll let you in on the secret equation in a minute. But first, I have a riddle for you to solve.

Riddle: A preacher made his child drink lye, which burned out his vocal chords. What was the positive intention behind this behavior?

If you are like almost all of the clients who have come into my office since 1978, you’ll indignantly say something like: "There isn’t any positive intent behind that behavior." But you would be 100% incorrect. To answer this riddle, first you have to detach the behavior from the positive intent of the deed.

The minister’s child was cursing. And the preacher believes that if his son curses, his soul will be condemned to Hell. So the answer is that the preacher was burning out his child’s vocal cords so that he couldn’t curse. By doing so, he was saving his child’s soul from being fated to Hell.

The secret formula for successful change works as follows:

We must value the positive intention behind each behavior. If we have a compulsion to use a behavior that we do not like, we can easily get rid of the urge to use that behavior. What we need to do is to find another behavior and substitute it in it’s place. To be successful, the new conduct must be as available and effective at accomplishing the same secondary gain, but be more consciously tolerable. This is called a REFRAME.

When clients come into my practice, one of the first things that I do is to take a careful case history. Let’s imagine that they come in and ask me to help them eliminate their appetite. Conventional wisdom tells us that the two main reasons that people eat too much are: (1) for relaxation and pleasure; (2) because eating can be a behavior triggered by other behaviors that it has been associated with (a conditioned response). For instance, if a person eats while they are watching TV, they will develop a conditioned response, and thereafter, every time they sit down to watch TV, they’ll get cravings and an urge to eat.

However, the above answer only takes into consideration the possible positive intention behind the eating behavior. What if they also have another behavior that is concerned in the equation? For instance: What if being tubby is also a behavior for this person? I can hear your mind spinning right now as you think, "Being fat isn’t a behavior, what are you talking about?"

Sorry but you could be completely wrong. Here is one classic textbook example that will demonstrate the fact that being fat can be a behavior. It can be a behavior because it can accomplish positive outcomes.

Example: A woman is in love. Her boyfriend breaks up with her, and breaks her heart. Her unconscious wants to shield her emotionally and keep her from ever having her heart broken again. So it motivates her to get fat to keep her out of relationships. Because if she isn’t in a relationship she won’t get her heart broken again.

The point is that everyone is totally different. And sometimes there are unconsious elements at work causing uncontrollable behaviors. These are elements that are different for each person.

Here’s another case in point: A woman comes into my practice complaining of an uncontrollable compulsion to eat way too much at dinnertime. During my case history, upon questioning, the woman explains to me how she has never been able to satisfy her father.

During an age regression, we learned that one of her earliest memories was of having dinner with her family. And dad was insisting in an authoritive voice that she eat everything on her plate, even though she was stuffed. So she finished the food on her plate out of fear, and dad praised her for finishing all of the food. It was one of the only times in her life that she could recall her dad telling her that he was happy with her.

Shoot forward to the present. Her father has been dead for years, but the unconscious program he installed is still operational. She still has an urge to clean her plate, even if she is feeling full, because by cleaning the plate, in her unconscious she is getting her dad’s approval, and eliminating her fear!

So if you find it it difficult to make personal changes, you should remember that there is a positive intention causing all behaviors. And the formula for success is to alternate a different behavior that will realize the same positive intention, but in a way that is more consciously acceptable to you, as an individual. The most effective way to get your unconscious to assume the responsibility for making this kind of change for you is through an NLP Six-Step Reframe.

Alan B. Densky, CH is an NLP Practitioner. He began his practice of hypnosis & NLP in 1978. He offers an interactive NLP 6-Step Reframing CD on his Neuro-VISION NLP website. Also available are his Free hypnosis article library, MP3 downloads, and hypnosis & NLP newsletters.

- Alan B. Densky, CH

Human resource management or HRM provides a very important function for business’s of all sizes. They can manage a wide array of activities such as hiring new employees, training, recruiting, and handling performance issues among many other things. These functions are necessary to the success of any business.

A company’s success is dependent on its employees. A good human resource manager can be discerning enough to ensure that a business employs only those people who will help the company go forward and thrive. They will look for the best and the brightest employees. It will not be difficult for them to find the employees who would conform to the company culture and be amicable with the other employees in the company.

Human resource management controls many important functions. Managing employee perks is one of them. A lot of paperwork and methodology is necessary for managing employee perks which in most cases include benefits like health insurance, dental insurance, accident insurance, etc. As these are dictated by private companies, it is important that your company seeks one of the best benefit packages available in the market. It should provide employees all the perks necessary while ensuring that they are not paying for anything that they don’t require.

Employee’s morale is another important unseen attitude that can be assessed and withheld by proper human resource management. Through creative programming a HRM team can improve employee’s morale for improvement, without any cost at all. Programs such as company Christman parties, company softball teams, and company picnics can have good effects in terms of improving employees relationship and team building

As we know good comes the bad .Sometimes a company will suffer due to bad performance of the employee.In that cases HR has to intervene. Another step can be taken by the handling performance team that can take disciplinary action against the employee ,recommend counselling ,or make the decision to let an employee go.So there are number of ways to handle the poorly performing employee and its really good to have experts to handle these typical sitution

A good human resource management team provides many valuable services and functions. All business operates as a team. You have you’re employees, your clients, your management, your engineers, and then you have your human resources. All these groups come together to make a successful business.

Human resource management (HRM) is pivotal for the success of all businesses, regardless of size. Management of performance, hiring, training, and recruitment are all categorized under the human resource umbrella. A good Human Resource Manager is critical to employee performance, which directly correlates to company performance. The manager also handles employee benefits, ensuring employees have the benefits they need without having to pay for those they don’t require. Morale boosting is another item handled by the manager, including company sports teams and picnics. The manager also handles the negative, such as discipline and employee discharge from the company. Human Resource is a key part of any company’s team of employees.

- George H. Purdy

Employee benefits is one of the more complicated areas of federal law. It gained popularity in 1974 with the passage of ERISA. Group Benefits Advisors is an Employee benefits broker Dallas, Texas. We play an important role in helping companies design cost-effective benefits for their employees. As employee benefit consultants, we are sensitive to changing economic trends and corporate financial matters, new developments in legislation, regulation, and litigation.

Located in Dallas, Texas, GroupBenefitsAdvisors.com is a recognized employee benefits broker. Their clients find that, as an employee benefits consultant, they cover a wide range of important benefit options: group health and dental insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plans including 401K. Some pension and employee stock ownership plans cover thousands of employees, while smaller businesses may opt for profit sharing or deferred compensation plans.

Benefits lawyers’ experience on benefits issues relating to corporate spin-offs is extensive with experience in employee benefits issues in international transactions. Employee-choice benefit programs have been in vogue for a number of years. Group Benefits Advisors, as employee benefits broker Dallas, helps clients determine the best resources for addressing their benefits and administrative needs.

Employee benefits form an integral of the growth of any business. GroupBenefitsAdvisors.com covers benefits such as group health insurance, pension plans, group life and disability income plans. These benefits provide employees economic security and in return a company gets continued employee satisfaction and well-being within the company. A well-designed employee benefits plan helps to recruit and retain valuable employees. Designing an employee benefit plan is complicated, technical and involves a lot of time and expertise.

Many Dallas Fort Worth area employers are looking for ways to reduce the rate of skyrocketing health care costs in the U.S. To help employers reduce this increase, Group Benefits advisors are specliasts in providing employee benefit plans. Without changing the group health insurance provider, no reduction in total benefits to employees, our approach can save employers in Dalas an average $1,000 to $2,000 per employee, per year.

A key element of any employee benefits plan is group health insurance. Employment-based health benefit programs have existed in the United States for over a century. Health insurance premiums paid by employers may be deductible for employers as a business expense under prevailing IRS Section 125 tax laws, and are excluded from workers’ taxable income.

Businesses of every size, be they small or medium are looking for the same thing. Especially businesses in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Plano, and Arlington Texas, that want to attract very good quality employees, they should want a good employee benefit plan. This will allow them to compete with the larger businesses that already offer group health insurance coverage and excellent employee benefits. It’s very important to work with an employee benefits broker dallas who will listen to the needs and design a great plan for the employees.

One of the best ways to recruit and retain good employees is with a good employee benefits plan. This should include health insurance, dental coverage, disability income, life insurance, and retirement plans. Group Benefits Advisors, a employee benefits consultant dallas, can help small and medium size companies put together a good benefits plan for their employees, including group health insurance dallas. They can help reduce the increasing costs for good health care coverage in the state of Texas. It is critical for employers to use an employee benefits broker dallas to achieve these results.

- Michael Chapman

The typical employee benefit package includes health insurance, life insurance, and retirement packages. Retirement packages may include 401ks or pensions. Some employees may want to increase their benefits with supplemental additional benefits. These additional benefits may add a level of comfort and security for some full time workers.

Voluntary benefits programs are becoming more and more prevalent as an offering for employers to supply to their employees. These programs offer a win-win situations for both employer and employee. The employee has the option of choosing which benefits are most applicable and desirous for them. The employer then doesn’t have to pay for benefits that a worker doesn’t want.

Accident insurance is a popular voluntary benefit. This insurance can help cover additional expenses beyond the typical medical expenses incurred by employees that miss work due to injury. Accident insurance has been made popular by such companies as AFLAC and Colonial Insurance.

Especially for people working in hazardous / life-risking conditions, it is good to have a supplemental insurance plan. This insurance can cover for the basic household expenses like utilities, mortgages, food, etc. in a situation when the insured is unable to work due to an accident or injury that may have occurred at the work place. Colonial Insurance and Aflac are some of those who offer this kind of insurance plan.

There are a variety of other voluntary benefits that may be available to employees at the work site. These include dental and/or vision insurance, as well as insurance to cover heart disease, stroke, or cancer, which may be particularly important in the case where the employee has a family history of such diseases. Programs such as these can be very beneficial for employers since, while administrative costs are paid by the employer, all premiums are paid for by the employee.

In the most competitive global economy - in which employers are looking to stay competitive at all costs - offering worksite marketing of voluntary benefits for employees can help the employer to give the type of coverage that is best for each worker. In fact these voluntary benefits from companies like AFLAC and Colonial Insurance are rising very fast and will continue to prove more and more polular in the next years.

An effective way for employers to remain competitive in the job market is to offer voluntary benefits to their employees, such as for dental, accidents, or cancer. The employer doesn’t waste money on benefits that some workers don’t want, and those employees that desire extra medical or accident insurance have the option to purchase it. The benefits can help pay household bills when a wage earner is injured on the job and unable to work, for example. Two companies which currently offer these extra benefit programs are AFLAC and Colonial Insurance.

- Michael Chapman

There is gold between them ears partner! That’s right-a veritable goldmine exists in your mind-and when you diligently "mine your mind" you can put that gold to work for you to achieve all you desire.

Life is a state of consciousness yet most people act like they’re in a trance, breathing and doing nothing. Don’t live on autopilot! Snap out of it and start paying attention to your direction, which is charted by your thoughts and beliefs. What are those thoughts and beliefs telling you? Are they pointing you in the direction of success? If not, think again. Mine for the gold and you can alter your course in a positive and lasting way.

"You are what you think." Everything you have and do is strictly in accordance with your consciousness - as Barbra Streisand wisely says, ‘The outside world mirrors what we think of ourselves.’ Do you think you are worthy? Do you see yourself as Smart? Successful? Sexy?

Always think of yourself in the highest possible terms. "I am success!: If you are confident in yourself you will have the courage to venture. Having ventured you will succeed. Having succeeded you will become more confident. What happens next? With your increased confidence you continue to succeed. And this delightful cycle goes on and on!

You should acknowledge what is right with you every day and the good will grow. Continue to validate your goodness knowing that with persistence more good is inevitable.

Mind-mining is an ongoing and sometimes lengthy process. Dig, Chip, Sift, Examine, Discard. Repeat. Maintaining a healthy level of confidence requires a strong underlying foundation which can mean a lot of chipping away at negative beliefs. Beliefs are the emotional offspring of our values-suggesting what we are and what we can be-and just like values, they either empower or limit us. I’m sure you’ve heard this statement: "Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you are right." Beliefs should be explored and evaluated. We must challenge the intelligence of our conscious minds to determine which beliefs are positive and empowering and which ones limit our potential for success and happiness. Mining your mind will help break the habitual cycle of limiting behaviors that are guided by any limiting beliefs. Keep mining-look deeper until you’ve removed whatever is holding you back-that’s the fool’s gold. Chuck out the junk and keep only those beliefs that serve your higher good.

Often our limiting beliefs are more difficult to address because we have accepted them as unchangeable truths-perhaps validated by negative outcomes. But always remember: it is beliefs that create outcomes, not outcomes that create beliefs. Change your beliefs, change your outcomes.

Belief A: I failed last time so I’ll probably fail again.

Belief B: The past does not equal the future.

Switch Belief A to Belief B and you change what you believe is possible for your future. Success is not a secret; it is a system-a positive belief system.

You already have all the resources you need to be a superstar. Mine your mind. Do it with diligence. Sift through your beliefs and discard everything but those precious nuggets of self-worthiness that will drive you to be all you can be-then you’ll have hit the mother lode!

Turn your cache into cash. Be BOP!

About Thom McFadden

- Thom McFadden

There are two psychological states that must be contented before a person will willingly break the smoking habit. These elements are called "Desire," and "Decision."

DESIRE: A want, crave or a wish for

DECISION: Making up of one’s mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to break the smoking habit, you have to DESIRE to kick the habit. You probably want to break the smoking habit, at least some part of you does, or you wouldn’t be reading this article.

In addition, in order to break the smoking habit, a smoker must DECIDE to quit. Since you haven’t stopped smoking, it simply means that you have not DECIDED to quit smoking yet.

So what you need is to feel a compulsion to make a "DECISION" to quit smoking.

MOTIVATION, we all require it. The foundation of each of our motivations is a belief. Think about it, if you did not think it was true that you would get hurt if you drank poison, you would not feel motivated to be wary. If you did not believe that the gnawing feeling in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you wouldn’t feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to giving up an addiction to cigarettes, people need to feel a lot of of motivation to make the DECISION to stop. Motivation is based on the thoughts that we believe. So you will need to figure out exactly what thoughts will motivate you (when you start to believe them). Because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will break the smoking habit.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and self-hypnosis for motivation, it is much easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you think it is. However, you don’t believe the ideas that will motivate you to break the smoking habit at this point in time, or you would have already quit smoking.

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 is not."

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 humanbeing.

When you totally believe that if you continue to smoke your highly valued criterion is in jeopardy, you will feel the motivation that you need to stop smoking cigarettes. We call this is a negative motivator, because it is a belief that motivates by giving you dreadful feelings. Negative motivators are great for getting you to make changes.

When you believe that if you do quit smoking, that which is most important to you will become enhanced, you will also feel the motivation that you require to break the smoking habit. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good sensations if you quit smoking.

The first chore is for you to figure out what the most vital things in your life are. 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 could be. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to DECIDE what you would need to believe to feel motivated to give up cigarettes. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don’t have to be logical for anyone to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So don’t worry about logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, something shocking will happen to my most highly valued criteria."

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. You should never state what will not happen. Eliminate the "not" word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children’s health is your most highly valued criteria.

WRONG: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won’t be doing my kid’s health any good."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will give my children cancer."

Next, create a list of positive motivators. "I believe that if I break the smoking habit: (something very important will be enhanced)."

WRONG: "I believe that if I stop smoking, I won’t make my kids sick."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I break the smoking habit, my children will be safer because I’ll eliminate their exposure to the dangers of my secondhand smoke."

The next step is to make changes to the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these new ideas. Now for a revelation: Belief has nothing to do with or what is real. Instead, your beliefs have everything to do with what your perception of reality is. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that you see things.

Our belief systems are located in our subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is like a computer. Computers don’t reason. The input to a computer controls the output from a computer. To demonstrate, I want you to think of something 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 picture that makes you feel that love.

I’m going to ask some questions, and there aren’t any correct or incorrect 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?

It doesn’t matter what your answers are, write them down on a piece of paper. These are the computer codes that your unconscious mind uses to make you experience your feelings of belief. In this case they are the mental codes for positive belief, because you have chosen a belief that gives you a positive feeling. You’ve just calibrated your positive belief.

Every positive belief picture is bright and focused. If yours aren’t, you probably don’t really have total belief. An element of doubt is probably present. So find another belief from which to calibrate.

If you think of something that you are unsure of, and you make a mental picture of it, one or more of these computer codes will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a negative feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes will be different.

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need 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 awful.

Once you have calibrated your positive and negative beliefs, it is a simple matter to control what you believe so you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to stop smoking.

So, to summarize, using the above example: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will make my kids ill."

1. Become aware of how motivated you feel to break the smoking habit.

2. Make a mental picture that illustrates the above belief.

3. Adjust the computer codes (visual submodalities) of the picture so that they match the codes from your calibrated negative belief picture.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your mental image) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, go up to the right. This will make you quickly memorize the belief.

5. Now sense how well motivated you feel to break the smoking habit. Do you feel more motivated? Do you feel less motivated? Or are your feelings the same?

By utilizing this proceedure you can make yourself believe almost anything by making a picture in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental picture to make it match your calibrated belief images.

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 DECIDE to quit, you will break the smoking habit. A DECISION to quit means: I’m quitting no matter what I have to do. If you are similar to most people, you will not want it to feel the pain and you don’t have to. Because there are several hypnotic techniques that can greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate the discomforts of withdrawal from the cigarette addiction. And you can read about them in my library of unique and original hypnosis articles.

(c) 2007 By Alan B. Densky, CH. 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. offers NLP CD’s for breaking the smoking addiction. He developed the Neuro-VISION(r) Video break the smoking habit hypnotic technology. It received a US Patent due to its uniqueness and effectiveness. Mr. Densky can be reached through the Neuro-VISION web site.

- Alan B. Densky, CH