Most people are full of good intentions when it’s a new year. They may want to lose weight, quit smoking, or earn more money. But when it comes to action, this enthusiasm often fizzles out. Why is it so hard to stick to your new years resolutions, even when you want this change?

You haven’t told your subconscious mind

We basically have 2 sides to our mind we use to make decisions. It’s your conscious and subconscious minds. Before I move on, I’ll give you a brief explanation of them both.

Conscious mind – Is the part responsible for your logical thinking. It’s also the voice in your head when you speak to yourself. Your conscious mind is the part of your mind that you use for doing maths and solving logical problems.

Subconscious mind – Is the part responsible for your automatic flowing thoughts. It’s what lets you catch a ball without thinking. Or breathe with no conscious thought. Your subconscious mind also controls your automatic fears, habits and urges. Your subconscious mind might trigger an automatic fear response when you see a spider, even though your conscious mind knows its not dangerous.

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Caught in two minds

The problem when someone wants to make a change is that usually only their conscious mind knows this. This catches them literally in two minds. Their conscious mind wants to quit smoking, eat less or exercise more, but their subconscious mind wants to continue. Your subconscious mind likes pleasure, and often doesn’t understand why you’d want to deny yourself.

When caught in two minds, there’s only one winner. Your subconscious mind keeps sending automatic urges, over and over again, nagging away at you. Irresistible cravings take over almost every thought. Eventually most people crack and succumb to these urges. And the new year’s resolution goes out the window.

Hypnotherapy can help!

A big part of a hypnotherapist’s work is telling someone’s subconscious mind what they consciously want. A patient may wish to quit smoking (on a conscious level). I tell their subconscious mind of their conscious desire to quit smoking.

Once your subconscious mind is on board, it’s much easier to stick to your resolutions. Your conscious and subconscious minds are in harmony. So there’s no more subconscious nagging.

How to help yourself

A great way to tell your subconscious mind what you want is by visualisation. Visualise the positive end of what you want. For instance if you want to lose weight, don’t visualise yourself starving and doing gruelling exercises. This won’t entice your subconscious mind to cooperate. Instead visualise yourself at your ideal weight, as clearly as you can, feeling all the nice benefits of this. Looking great, attracting others etc. It’s not essential, but if you learn self hypnosis, this helps make the visualisation brighter and bolder. The message is more likely to be understood by your subconscious mind.

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It’s a great idea to leave yourself reminders of your goals. You may have a goal that you want to make more money to buy a luxury house. First visualise the house of your dreams as if you already own it. It’s a good idea to do this every day for the first week, then about once a week after that. (This is just a general rule of thumb. You may want to do more.)

Once you have visualised this, get pictures of what you want your house to look like and leave them in prominent places. If you work at your computer, then it is great place to leave a picture. This will inspire you when you work.

Many experts agree that if you consciously force yourself to change a habit for 28 days, this new habit ingrains itself into your subconscious mind and becomes automatic. So if you have the willpower, force yourself into this change for 28 days. After this, things should be much easier.

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Final thoughts

In order to stick to your new years resolutions, you must have both your conscious and subconscious minds working towards the same goal. Any conflict between the two is likely to see your subconscious win in the end. And you return to your old behaviours.

Find a way to get your subconscious mind to want the same thing as your conscious mind, and it’s far easier to make a permanent change.

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