Mental techniques for achieving goals

[Teacher]

The following visualization techniques, or mental techniques, can be applied to reinforce the result you desire using affirmations. They have proven to be highly effective for those who work with them, and can be used to achieve any desired result, in particular to change your behavior.

People, in their struggle with a specific problem, often think that they are alone. However, the truth is that among the entire population of our planet there are those people who have long coped or are already coping with this particular problem. Remember, you are not alone. There are millions of people who want to quit smoking, stop biting their nails, hating their bosses, passing on, solving relationship problems, fighting depression, and so on.

Mental techniques have been developed to address the most common human problems, but even if your problem is unique, you shouldn't have much difficulty adapting these techniques to solve your problem. As with affirmations, these techniques are best used when your brain is in alpha state.

The "whistle" technique.

This mental technique was developed by Richard Bandler, one of the founders of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

First, select the behavior or mental state that you want to change. Now try to imagine what you want to change your behavior or state into as clearly and as clearly as you can. The more detailed your presentation, the more effective the technique will be.

Focus on all the sensory cues this state brings you:

See this.

Smell.

Hear the associated sounds.

Feel it.

Try it.

Your goal is to keep two mental visual images in your head - the one you want to change and the one that makes you happy. Every picture needs a frame, so put your mental pictures in frames.

For now, scale down the nice picture and put it aside or in the corner of your mental wall. Enlarge the picture you want to change to a large, bright frame. Next comes the "whistle" stage.

Imagine how both pictures change their size and start swapping. Make a nice picture big and bright, and an unpleasant picture dim and small. Try to hear the sound effect as you resize and move pictures, let it whistle. Whistle yourself, or say the word "whistle", as they change places.

Repeat the "whistle" technique as many times as you can and remember that this technique works best when you do it at high speed and intensity. The whistle should instantly initiate moving and resizing of pictures. The more and more often you repeat the "whistle" technique, the faster you will program your mind. And then, as soon as you start behaving incorrectly, your mind will automatically switch you to a happy picture.

Anchor and trigger technique.

Anchoring is a mental designed technique to create a specific response to a specific stimulus (trigger). The stimulus can be anything you choose: pressing your fingers on your earlobe, clicking your fingers, tapping your foot, anything you can think of, but only specific things that you would not do in everyday life.

The answer can also be anything. You can put yourself in a state of attention, or leave cravings for cigarettes or alcohol. The key to this psychic technique is intensity and repetition - the desired psychic or physical state should be as intense as possible during anchoring.

The best time to create an anchor is when you are deeply, deeply relaxed, or in a solid "Tetta" state. When you are relaxed, you can create any state or circumstance you want. Imagine being where you want to be - happy, smoke-free, confident, and so on.

The state or situation you are imagining should be as realistic as if you were dreaming. Create a mental movie that is very, very intense. Make your mental film as clear as it should be in reality.

Next, launch your incentive. If you choose to stimulate a pinched earlobe, you need to pinch it while you are at the peak of the desired state. This process will create the perfect mental anchor, but only if your mental image or state is intense enough and the stimulus is repeated often enough for a response to be programmed in your mind.

Programming circumstances.

This mental technique works well for affirmations. The essence of her work lies in the representation of a circumstance or a statement that an event will occur. The limit of this technique can only be the sky.

Any situation you can imagine or want to be can be programmed into this mental technique. If you do it right, your subconscious mind will work for you and construct things in the background in order to make this a reality.

Programming the circumstance is a fairly simple technique, you just need to imagine yourself on the stage of the desired reality, the main thing is that the picture is intense enough. In reality, this technique is similar to the anchoring technique, only here you are not trying to create a mental state. All you do is create instructions for your subconscious mind to follow.

As with other techniques, repetition is important here. Review your mental movie in your head as often as you can. This will reinforce your instructions in the subconscious mind and help it continue to work on the task. As you play your mental movies, repeat the affirmations to speed up the result.

Modeling.

This mental technique is based on the success of successful people. The human brain was designed in such a way that it can not only recognize patterns, but also copy models. This is very noticeable in children, they copy the behavior of adults, like monkeys who, observing people, begin to repeat their actions.

Through copying models, we learned to walk, talk, write and much more. You become an adult and you may have forgotten that your brain is usually prone to copying things, but it continues to do so anyway. Think of the people you hang out with a lot, have you ever caught yourself using the same expressions, saying the same jokes, or wearing similar clothes?

The basis of modeling is copying the behavior of a person who is very good at what you also want to be good at. First, pick a personality trait or habit that is holding you back from your success. For example, if you think you're not good at tennis, imagine yourself on the tennis court. Or, if you are having difficulty communicating with the opposite sex, imagine a situation where there are girls you could meet. Now, pick someone who is good at tennis or is fluent with the opposite sex.

Imagine the situation brightly and intensely enough. See how the person is doing the task, exactly the way you would like to do it. Now imagine yourself as if you are inside this person - see what he sees, think and feel the same way. Watch as your limiting thoughts and beliefs disappear. Feel relaxed and confident, feel how great it is to do what you want as well.

Repeat this exercise as often as possible, but only change the circumstances, change the weather, place, people, and so on. Continue doing this until the traits of your model merge with your own behavior, beliefs, and attitudes.

Disgust technique.

Have you ever watched a child who was told not to do something, but he went ahead and did it, did it for evil. Usually, if the experience is unpleasant enough, the child will not repeat these actions. This is disgust.

The aversion technique can be used to free oneself from the chains of a destructive habit. The technique is very simple - you associate unwanted behavior with something particularly disgusting, nauseous, or painful. For example, if you want to stop smoking, first you have to imagine a lit cigarette, its appearance, smell, taste as if you actually smoke.

Now turn your cigarette into something very nasty. The more disturbing and repulsive the image is, the better the technique will work. Imagine that from the smoke of your cigarette you begin to cough violently, feel weak and confused, feel like you have just vomited, but make sure that along with the unpleasant sensations you smell tobacco smoke.

If you apply this method correctly, your cravings for cigarettes should be largely replaced by feelings of disgust and nausea.

Any of these techniques are powerful on their own. They can be used together or separately, or in combination with statements. Remember that persistence, desire, and faith will take you where you want to be.