Overcome Addictions with Subliminal Messaging

The internet has become a great resource for self-help. We can learn about — and often solve — problems or concerns in our lives without ever having to share or discuss them with family or friends.

Some people have turned to subliminal messaging for the very same reason. This type of ‘self-help’ takes confidentiality to a new level because even if someone ‘catches’ you listening, there are no audible words or phrases. As far as others are concerned, you’re just listening to music — or perhaps nature sounds — to relax.

How It Works

Subliminal messaging is basically a soft form of hypnosis. Both accomplish the same results — a positive outcome and a change within the mind. Hypnosis works by bypassing your conscious mind, as does subliminal messaging. The primary difference is that rather than going into a trance-like state for 30 minutes, you listen to a subliminal message while remaining active and alert. You are easily able to carry on with all your regular activities. You can exercise, garden, wash dishes … even sleep … while listening.

Consciously, you won’t hear anything. However, the subliminal statements are still making their way into your subconscious mind. Eventually, as they build up to a certain level, they start to flood your mind and create changes in your thinking patterns. In turn, you begin to notice external (and lasting) changes.

Some people experience very quick changes, but generally it takes a couple of months before you begin to see changes and improvements in your thoughts, beliefs, and physical behavior.

Subliminal messages have proven to be very effective in overcoming addictions and bad habits, such as smoking, gambling, alcohol, nail biting, drugs, etc. They have also been shown to help in other areas, such as:

• Boosting self-confidence
• Increasing self-motivation
• Overcoming self sabotage
• Conquering panic attacks and anxiety
• Losing weight

Subliminal audio isn’t right for everyone, but if you’re serious about making a change in your life — and are willing to put forth the required effort — subliminal messaging could very well give you the boost you need.

Want to try it out? Click here to download three FREE subliminal MP3 audios!

Break Your Bad Habit in 21 Days or Less

Let me ask you something. Do you have one of these bad habits?

• Smoking
• Overeating
• Procrastination
• Drinking
• Drugs
• Wasting time
• Not taking care of your body
• Biting your nails

Whether you suffer from one of these bad habits or something else, you know it’s something you shouldn’t be doing, right?

And yet you continue.

And continue.

And try to quit … then continue again.

You’ know what I’m talking about. Everytime you try to get rid of a bad habit, you fail. Why? Because the pull is just too great.

Maybe you’re in a similar situation right now? If so, I’d like to suggest you try something that may very well help you break that bad habit now and forever.

It’s a system developed by Lee Milteer. She’s a best-selling author and Fortune 100 coach who has trained CEOs from across the globe to drop bad habits within just MINUTES. She’s worked with top dogs at Disney, AT&T, IBM, Xerox, the US Navy, and many more. She’s also been featured on several national TV and radio shows.

Her “Habit Busting Secrets: How to Break Any Habit in 21 Days” system is revolutionary! It shows you how to take control of your life and put an end to the cycle you’ve been on for so long.

In her four audio CDs and workbook, you’ll learn why willpower isn’t enough to break bad habits, how to replace bad habits with good ones, how to change your thinking to overcome the pull of bad habits, and so much more.

It won’t take but a few minutes to investigate what Lee is offering, so why not click here to get all the details. You never know. It may be the best thing you’ve done all day!

Replace Bad Habits with Positive Habits

A bad habit is hard to break because even though you know what you need to do, you just can’t get yourself to do it.

Do you know why? It’s because the thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and emotional habits you’ve developed over a lifetime are in control. No matter how much willpower you think you have or how persistent you are, that bad habit is embedded deep within you.

So how do you get rid of it? You replace the bad habit with a POSITIVE habit!

What is a positive habit? A positive habit is simply a habit that produces positive benefits, actions, and attitudes in your life.

Positive habits are formed the same way as bad habits — by repetition, until they become permanent. Or as they say in the scientific world, by a process called cognitive restructuring.

Without getting too complicated, cognitive restructuring is learning to identify your own cycle of negative thoughts, habits, and routines and replacing them with positive thoughts, habits, and routines.

In other words, it’s a way of creating a NEW YOU!

If you’re tired of dealing with your bad habit (nail biting, overeating, smoking, drinking, whatever …), then I know you’ll want to check out this fantastic program called The Power of Positive Habits.

People like Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield, and John Gray, Ph.D., all testify that this program can transform your life.

Why struggle with your bad habit one more day? Even one more minute? Go now and read about this amazing process and get started TODAY in replacing your bad habits with positive habits.

Break Bad Habits with Hypnosis

The difficulty most people encounter when they first try to break a bad habit is that habits  just don’t respond to orders. You summon your willpower, you tell yourself firmly not to do it, and even feel sure you won’t do it … and then you find you’ve done it anyway. <sigh>

It seems you just can’t win a straight out battle with habits. And many people give up at that point and say “I just can’t help it!”

But there is an easier way.

Hypnosis.

How Hypnosis Can Help You Beat the Habits You Hate

Break Bad Habits is an audio hypnosis session which lets you get right to the root of automatic negative patterns – which are in your unconscious mind. Although you do need willpower to start dealing effectively with unwanted behaviors, you need a ‘change of mind’ to finish with them.

In this audio download, you learn exactly what conscious steps to take. More importantly, you will actually take the all-important unconscious steps.

This hypnosis audio (MP3) is an excellent way to get started on your path towards breaking those bad habits — whatever they are (smoking, drinking, gambling, porn, even the internet).

You can find more information here.

Breaking Bad Habits Is A Process, Not An Event

Is it possible to free yourself from bad habits? Can people really change in any meaningful and long-lasting way? The answer is a resounding “Yes!” But you need a compelling reason to change, and you need to recognize that it won’t happen in 24 hours, as some programs and self-help books promise.

Change is not an event; it’s a process. Change happens through a series of stages, and most successful self-changers fail at least once before they succeed. Willpower alone won’t do it.

Researchers have identified six clear stages in the process of successful self-change:

1. Denial
2. Awareness
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
6. Termination

For most people, the process of breaking a bad habit is not a straight path that takes them from one stage to the next. Successful self-changers usually follow a path where they move forward, go back to a previous stage, and then move on to the next level of commitment. They may do this several times before breaking the habit for good.

Quitting a habit cold turkey usually doesn’t work. If you haven’t prepared yourself, pushing yourself into the action stage will cause you to feel like a failure the first time you slip up. You could end up more addicted to your habit than you were before you tried to quit. If you feel guilty and blame yourself for failing to break the habit, you will find it even harder to make a commitment to quit the next time.

Whatever your bad habit is, even if you have tried to break it many times, tell yourself this time will be different. And it will be because you will understand that breaking your bad habit is a process, not an event. You will have the knowledge and the confidence to succeed this time.

Are You Stuck in a Bad Habit?

Many people who are suffering from bad habits know they have a problem, but they don’t know what to do about it — or they feel powerless to change. They may spend years telling themselves they are going to change “one day.”

Fear of failure keeps many people stuck in their bad habits. They hide from the truth by telling themselves that they’re waiting for the “perfect” weight-loss program, the perfect smoking-cessation program, or the perfect time to stop drinking.

“I’ll change when the time is right,” is a common phrase. Of course there will never be a “right time,” but they haven’t been able to break out of their verbal cage.

What is sad is that some people simply are unable to make a serious commitment to change — even when their life depends on it. For example, a person may have a struggle with emphysema. They may sleep every night with an oxygen tank next to their bed. But they never quit smoking. They may cut down, but they never quit, even though they know it is killing them.

A number of years ago, there was an article about a woman in New Jersey who had a tracheotomy as a result of cancer. She was no longer able to breathe through her mouth, so she placed lighted cigarettes into the hole in her throat and inhaled the smoke that way. She was still smoking when she died.

Change is often very threatening. Even good change may threaten our security. When we’re accustomed to something, the thought of losing it can cause us to panic and freeze where we are, no matter how much we stand to gain by changing.

“John” knows the health risks that smokers face, but he doesn’t want to give up all the little satisfactions that smoking gives him — the pleasant anticipation he experiences after a meal when he is about to light a cigarette, the satisfaction of feeling the cigarette between his fingers, the nicotine rush that goes straight to his brain every time he takes a puff, the security of knowing he has an extra carton of his favorite brand stashed away in the closet.

The only part of smoking that John wants to give up is the part that threatens to give him lung cancer. He wishes he could somehow eliminate that part and hang onto all the other little perks that hooked him in the first place.

John may say he wants to quit smoking — and he isn’t lying when he says this. He sincerely thinks he wants to quit. His problem is that he hasn’t come to grips with the real reason he smokes. As soon as he is able to do so, he will be in a position to move forward. When he is able to admit that he likes lots of little things about his habit, he will be in a position to substitute healthy new habits for the old destructive ones.

However, as long as he hides from the truth—from the real reasons why he smokes—he will conveniently shift responsibility from himself to a “force” that’s stronger than he is. When a smoker says, “I really want to quit, but I just can’t,” what he really means is that he doesn’t want to be held accountable for his bad choices.

For many people, there is a certain comfort in believing that they can’t avoid the destructive path they’re following, even though they know where it leads in the end. They are locked into a self-defeating mindset that says, “I know I’m doomed, but what can I do about it?” The answer is that they can do a great deal about it, but not until they are able to see through the mind games they play.

Why do we play these games, even when we know our habits are destroying us? I think the answer goes something like this: As soon as we break out of the cage we’ve been hiding in, we will have to admit that we had the power to do it all along.

That can be a scary thing. A person who frees himself from a bad habit that has dominated his life for years or decades can be terrified of the prospect of having to admit that he wasted a large part of his life by failing to take responsibility for his own behavior.

“Jane” knows she may be drinking herself to death, but subconsciously she tells herself that it would be far worse to be free of her habit. If she were free, she would have to spend the rest of her life wondering what she might have made of her life if she had realized sooner that she was free to make better choices.

This is the danger of focusing on the past. When all you can see is what lies behind, you aren’t able to understand that new opportunities present themselves as soon as you make the decision to walk in a different direction.

As you learn to shift your thoughts from the past to the present, you will be taking a giant step towards freeing yourself from your bad habit.

Breaking Bad Habits and Addictions

A Story About David Lucero

David Lucero knows where he wants to go: He wants to go to El Paso, Texas.

David is about sixty years old and for the last three months, he has been living on a sidewalk across the street from a Greyhound bus station.

No one knows how long David has been homeless. He is one of America’s walking wounded—mentally ill, unable to take care of himself, unable to cope with the business of life. He is always happy to talk, although you have to repeat yourself a few times before he can understand you because David is losing his hearing.

One day someone tried to take him to a shelter for the homeless. All he had to do was get into the pickup truck. He had to make a decision — get in or stay on the street. The right decision could have started the cycle of healing and change, but it was more than David was capable of doing that morning. He decided to stay on the street, waiting for his imaginary ride to El Paso.

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We come into contact every day with people whose lives and families have been torn apart by bad habits: people addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs; over-spenders, overeaters, and chronic worriers; negative thinkers, procrastinators, and people who won’t forgive themselves for something that happened long ago.

We have all seen firsthand how bad habits keep ordinary people from living happier and healthier lives. Everywhere you look, people want to know why they are unhappy. And they want to know what they can do about it.

The talk shows offer a constant menu of miracle cures for every type of bad habit imaginable—everything from quick weight-loss programs to 20-minute lessons in positive thinking that promise to cure depression. We are constantly bombarded by programs that promise effortless and immediate results: Lose weight fast while eating as much as you want! Guaranteed to work! Sure.

We are overwhelmed with solutions today. And the more solutions there are, the harder it is to find one that works. Many people have failed so many times that they’ve almost given up the battle. Others gave up a long time ago.

Establishing New Priorities

Can you change yourself? Is it possible to free yourself from bad habits? Can you really change in a meaningful and long-lasting way?  The answer to each of these questions is “yes.” But you can’t change in 24 hours, as some programs and self-help books promise.

What does it mean to change? To change means to establish new priorities—to choose a behavior that’s different from the one you’re using now. David Lucero is stuck on the street, waiting for a solution that doesn’t exist. When a real solution is right in front of his nose, he can’t see it.

David’s story is one of bad habits and bad decisions, and it’s probably filled with bad people and bad situations as well.

But at some point, we have to discard the factors, the people, and the situations that shaped us. Focusing on the past won’t help us solve today. At some point we have to take responsibility for our own lives.

It was most likely bad habits and bad choices that brought David to this point—day after day and year after year—until he hit rock bottom. That’s always the way it is.

Learning how to free ourselves from bad habits starts with the realization that we cause our own feelings. We are the major cause of our own problems. The moment we grasp that simple fact, that’s when we’re ready to step into the process of self-change that will lead to freedom from the habits that keep us from living a more satisfying life. And when we’re free from our bad habits, the people around us will be free from the person we used to be.

All people can bring about superficial changes in themselves. But freeing yourself from a self-destructive habit like smoking or overeating requires a deep, long-lasting change. A bad habit is like an iceberg. You can’t beat the habit if you approach it as if it were only as large as what you can see on the surface.

Franz Kafka said, “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Any book or program that aims to help people break bad habits must reveal the whole iceberg that lies below the surface.

You can’t eliminate the whole thing in one day, but if you take a step-by-step approach, you can eliminate the bad habit sooner than you thought possible. It is going to take effort on your part.

You can’t eat whatever you want and lose weight, no matter how many times you hear it on the talk shows. But you can learn to eat more healthy foods and stop eating the unhealthy stuff that’s part of your life now.

To free yourself from bad habits, you must stop hiding the truth from yourself.

Overeaters, smokers, and chronic procrastinators have more in common with people like David than meets the eye. They all go to great lengths to hide the truth from themselves about the destructive nature of their bad habits, and too often lives and families are destroyed before they become aware of the fact they are trapped in a cage of self-destructive behavior.

Does professional therapy work? Can it help people break bad habits before the habit destroys their lives? The dropout rate is astonishing: 45% of clients who seek a professional therapist drop out of therapy after two or three sessions.

Do programs help? Millions of smokers have quit forever without following a treatment program. On the other hand, many people who try a smoking-cessation program are not able to quit, no matter how many different programs they try. In fact, some research suggests that for every person who quits smoking by following a treatment program, there are almost twenty persons who quit on their own.

What conclusion should we draw from all of this? It’s pretty clear, I think. You have a better chance of freeing yourself from a bad habit by becoming your own coach — by taking responsibility for your own program. And by facing the truth about yourself.