Get the Life You Want by Richard Bandler

Author:Richard Bandler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Health Communications Inc
Published: 2020-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

The next thing to do is to build desire. Desire works in a specific way. If a person smokes and they think about cigarettes, their body would often say, I want them! So if you finish a meal, if you look down at a pack of cigarettes, if you see somebody else lighting a cigarette, something inside you creates desire.

In order to quit any habit, there is a way to change this desire. Let’s stick with the smoking example. Stop now and make a picture of your brand of cigarettes—or what you would see if you were in a situation where you saw somebody else light up, or where you put down your fork at the dinner table and lit up—whatever it is that would trigger your wanting to smoke a cigarette.

When you look at that image and you feel that you want a cigarette, stop and make a picture of yourself not smoking. See everybody else lighting up and you’re not lighting up. When you see that image, adjust it, so that you look at it and you desire that. The trouble is most people don’t realize when they look at themselves going to where they want to be, they need to see themselves inside the image. They’re not there yet. When you look at the things that trigger bad habits, you need to see what you’d see if you were actually there. So, instead of seeing yourself smoke, you want to see the things that make you feel like you want to smoke.

Then the trick is to swap them, because what you need to do is change them around, whether you do it with size or you do it with distance. I like to do it with size to start with and make a small picture where you see yourself the way you’d like to be. Make a big picture of what triggers your wanting to smoke.

Then you take the big picture of your own pack of cigarettes, or seeing other people smoke, and you simply turn it so that it turns completely and totally white, and then take the little picture and pop it up all at once so you tell your mind not this… this! Not cigarettes… being a nonsmoker. You keep doing this, so you take that little picture and pop it up into a big picture and replace the desire for cigarettes with the desire to be a nonsmoker. This builds the foundation.

The truth is that if you just don’t smoke for three weeks, and if every time that craving comes up you put it out of your mind, it will make everything easier. It will work when you do the things that it takes to remain determined and you do the things that it takes to get through it. Getting through something isn’t a one-time deal, it means that for a couple of weeks, you work to build a new habit.

The habit you have to build is saying to yourself powerfully, Not cigarettes. No.

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