Success with New Year’s Resolutions

Success with New Year's Resolutions

It’s 2011 and time for a new start! Time to make those positive changes you’ve been putting off for a while. A New Year is like a blank slate – wiped clean of the past, full of optimism and ready for success with New Year’s resolutions.

However, maybe you have heard that little negative voice that lives inside your head telling you that you’ve tried and failed before. You know, that inner critic that loves to remind you of past mistakes and attacks your self confidence when you try something new? We all have one of these. The voice that uses nasty tactics to avoid change in an attempt to keep you safe. It throws self-doubt at you all the time and would like to see you safely wrapped up in cotton wool. How can you expect to make changes, to have success with New Year’s resolutions, if you listen to that?

There is a way to bypass that inner voice and approach your New Year’s resolution with energy and optimism. It’s by communicating directly with your subconscious mind, which is open to new ideas and is uncritical. Your subconscious mind is infinitely more powerful than your conscious mind and it can be accessed through hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy can help you to achieve success with your New Year’s resolutions easily. How would it feel to completely lose the desire for cigarettes ? Or to lose your fear of flying, or to develop strong self confidence? To start living a healthy, happy, full life?

” I have seen big improvements almost straight away.”  Sarah G – Focus Hypnosis client

How to achieve success with New Year’s Resolutions

If you are all fired up with enthusiasm and want to get started now, follow these simple tips:

1. Identify your goal eg: give up smoking, lose weight
2. Write down what you will do to achieve this. It’s pointless to have a goal without formulating how you can get there. Try breaking your goal into small steps if appropriate. Attach these specific goals to a time frame. If it’s weight loss you are aiming for, make sure you set manageable specific goals.
3. Avoid environments where you might be tempted. If you can’t avoid them, plan how to handle them ahead of time.

Try this now for success with New Year’s Resolutions

Here is a simple strategy, using the power of your subconscious mind, that you can try NOW. Do this daily for at least three weeks and you can override that inner critic. By instilling this vision of yourself over time, it becomes a habit – you truly believe that it is possible.

Find a quiet and comfortable place to sit where you won’t be disturbed for 15 minutes or so. You will need to be relaxed so that your subconscious mind can be engaged. This is similar to, but not as deep as the state you enter during hypnosis.

Close your eyes and take in a deep breath. As you exhale, allow your body to relax comfortably. Do this twice more. Now breathe naturally, noticing the very instant that air enters your mouth or nostrils and the very moment that the last bit of air is expelled. Keep this intense focus on nothing but your breathing for 10 breaths.

Now use your imagination. Picture your future self before you. This is you after you have achieved total success with your New Year’s resolution. It doesn’t matter if your visualisation is sketchy, it doesn’t have to be photo quality to be effective.

Your future self is the best you can be, your most magnificent self. Imagine this future self doing familiar actions. See how he/she stands, walks, talks to others. Notice how capable and confident your future self is. Spend a few moments observing your future self.

Now, using your imagination, step into the body of your future self. Feel yourself wearing that body like a warm outer layer of clothing. Now see through the eyes of your new self. Hear with the eyes of your new self. Does it feel different? Enjoy the confident, self-assured feeling that you have, now that you’ve achieved success with your New Year’s resolution.

Allow yourself a few minutes to daydream about how your life will be and then, when you are ready, take a deep breath and open your eyes.

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Hypnotherapy can make achieving your goals so much easier. Through hypnosis, Hilary can help you to change your thinking and change your life. For success with New Year’s resolutions, contact Hilary at Focus Hypnosis now.

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