| I was reading an article the other day entitled "the | | | | such simple strategies can be taught and learned by all. |
| secret of self-control" in "The New Yorker" and was | | | | You may wonder if you can learn new strategies as |
| reminded of some experiments which were executed | | | | easily as an adult as you might have as a child. And |
| at Stanford University several years ago. Walter | | | | the answer is yes, with the help of hypnosis. |
| Mischel was the professor in charge and his research | | | | The first step to anything is being aware of what your |
| involved young children and tested their ability to delay | | | | thought processes and strategies are. Most of us, |
| gratification. | | | | however, tend to just react to circumstances in our |
| These experiments were basically quite simple and | | | | usual way without thinking about the thought |
| involved offering each child one sweet immediately, but | | | | processes which trigger our reactions. Whatever our |
| if they waited a little while to eat it they could have | | | | learned methods of thinking and coping may be, we |
| two sweets. Each child was shown into a room | | | | tend to replicate in later life. Mischel observed this in his |
| where the sweets were and observed for a short | | | | children when they later reached teenage and adult |
| period of time. Some children gave in immediately and | | | | years. Their ability to distract themselves from |
| the sweet was popped into their mouth and that was | | | | temptations as a young toddler were predictive of |
| that, others tried different tactics - some stared at the | | | | their success in school and then also in their careers. If |
| sweet in their attempt to not eat it, others turned their | | | | only all of us were shown the techniques involved in |
| back on the sweet so as to try to put it out of their | | | | successfully delaying gratification at an early age! |
| mind, and so on. I'm really only providing the briefest of | | | | But, as I said before, you can learn these mental skills |
| overview's here, so as to show, from these simple | | | | now, and embed them in your subconscious mind so |
| experiments, how you can learn to easily train your | | | | that they become as automatic as your old thought |
| mind to beat those cravings. | | | | processes, with a little bit of help from hypnosis. |
| The researchers found that those who tried the tactic | | | | Hypnosis is a state of relaxation and it allows access |
| of staring at the sweet soon gave in and ate it, whilst | | | | to your subconscious mind. As a young child your |
| those who distracted themselves by thinking of other | | | | subconscious mind is open to experience and |
| things, or doing other things, successfully beat their | | | | suggestion and absorbs new information easily, without |
| desire to eat the sweet. The same holds true in | | | | the restriction of preconceived ideas or expectations. |
| adulthood - the more time you spend time focusing | | | | But once you reach the age of 10 or 12 your basic |
| upon something the more you will desire it. The only | | | | attitude and coping strategies are formed and you |
| way to effectively put something out of your mind is | | | | tend to act within this structure of attitudes, patterns |
| to distract yourself by focusing on something quite | | | | and beliefs. Your subconscious mind is more difficult to |
| different. This is why most people have difficulty in | | | | access and this is why hypnosis is so important. |
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| from it. | | | | dissociate from your previous cravings in the same |
| The key to beating cravings and thus successful | | | | way as the child who was taught to imagine the |
| weight loss can be found in studying further the | | | | sweet was in a picture as opposed to just sitting there |
| research findings from these Stanford experiments. | | | | upon the table. You can learn to distract yourself and |
| Mischel also found that simply by suggesting a | | | | dissociate in many different ways and overcome your |
| strategy to the children which should assist did indeed | | | | cravings quickly and easily with the use of hypnosis |
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