Did you know?
70% of smokers say they would like to quit but can’t.
92% of people fail at their New Year’s resolution within the first month.
85% of drug and alcohol addicts relapse after recovery.
95% of people who lose weight fail to keep it off long term.
98% of people die without fulfilling their dreams.
People want to progress; they want to be and feel better.
The problem is they have developed characteristic patterns of thinking and behavior; they focus on the same images and ideas, and they keep asking themselves the same questions. They do want a new result, but they continue to act in the same way.
You have inside the necessary resources to change anything in your life. It’s just that you have a series of associations that usually prevent you from utilizing your full potential. These associations have their pathways already linked in your nervous system, making you react to situations in a certain way, which, in most cases, has nothing to do with the event itself.
If you want to get new results in your life, knowing your outcome and getting some leverage will not be enough. You can be motivated to change, but if you keep doing the same things and repeating the wrong patterns, your life will not change; all you’re going to get is more pain and frustration.
You need to change your approach.
Remember the old record albums? Those discs (we called them LPs back then) can consistently reproduce the same sounds because of the groove in which the sound is encoded. But what would if happen if you picked the record, took a needle, and scratched it back and forth several times?
The pattern encoded in the groove will indeed be deeply interrupted, and the record will never play the same way again.
Likewise, interrupting your limiting patterns of behavior or emotions can change your life.
Just like Marianne Williamson said, “you must learn a new way to think before you can learn a new way to be.”
Three things must be in place for you to make these changes and make them last. They are the three fundamental steps of Neuro-Associative Conditioning:
1. Get leverage on yourself. You need to make a decision and acknowledge that:
Something MUST change.
You MUST change it.
You CAN change it.
2. Interrupt your current pattern of association. You have to scratch the olf pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving by doing something weird, out of the ordinary in the way you talk or move your body (use ludicrous words instead of the harsh ones you say when you’re angry, for instance).
3. Condition a new, empowering association. Install a new alternative, and work on its reinforcement until it’s conditioned. Like an out of tune piano, human behavior needs to be continuously reinforced until it becomes a habit. Piano tuners have to keep checking and adjusting the strings until they stay in tune –notice that we call the process ‘conditioning,’ which means that you’ll have to regularly check and reinforce the changes, so you don’t allow the option of getting back to the old way.
Always remember to link pleasure to your new alternative. Reward yourself emotionally each step of the way to accelerate the development of the new pattern.
Let’s continue this topic next week.
Until then, stay strong!
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