Change The Meaning

Neuro-associations are quite a powerful thing.

As discussed previously we link things together whether it be positively or negatively and these neuro-associations shape our life and destiny.

The good thing is that we can actually change them.

How?

Anthony Robbins says there are three steps you have to take toward changing the meaning and making it last.

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1. Get Leverage on yourself.

In other words, you must get to the point where you feel that NOT changing would be massively painful. Your inner feelings should say, I MUST do this, not I should or might change this or that. You must hit your absolute bottom.

I know that is how I felt before I embarked on this journey of change. I decided that I MUST change my life. I could no longer go on the way I was.

2. Interrupt your present limiting associations.

Do something unexpected during the negative reaction, interrupt the pattern.

Anthony Robbins gave a good story as an example.

A woman came up to him at a seminar and she started telling him about her current problems in her marriage. She was very upset and crying. She obviously linked pain to her marriage. Anthony proceeded to take the glass of water in his hand and splashed some water on her in the midst of her crying. Not surprisingly, she was shocked and couldn't understand what he was doing. He of course was interrupting her pattern of negative thinking about her marriage.

He also mentioned another way to interrupt a pattern could be to make an unexpected noise during the association. Whatever it takes to take your main off of the focus of the negative association.

3. Condition yourself to have a new and empowering association

For example recently I found myself putting off writing certain parts of my business plan. I was delaying it because I was linking that part of the plan to pain-it seemed overwhelming to me. So I started thinking of my end goal and what I really want out of life which is to someday live at the beach. I started linking beach with business plan and repeating this in my head, actually visualizing it. I realized how it changed my whole entire feeling about it. I have since been able to tackle that part of it.

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Think of at least one thing you want to change in your life but have been putting off.

What will it cost you if you continue to put it off?

What will you gain if you make it happen?

What are some ways you could interrupt the pattern?

What is a new association you could have for it?