Smoking is a nasty habit. Not only does your mate kiss an ashtray, your insides start to turn black gradually and the arteries will harden. Smoking is something we want to avoid at all costs. Therefore, we have to learn how to set up our stop smoking program through self-talk and positive reflections.

Self-talk is an effective self-therapy strategy that trains the conscious and unconscious mind to either cease or start doing something. Self-talk enables you to adjust your behaviors for the better.

Self-talk involves cognitions, which you will learn to endorse and identify your maladaptive and to challenge your illogical thinking. In addition, you learn to challenge irrational emotions and thoughts. You learn to challenge your attitudes. This will help you to readapt your lifestyle so that you can succeed.

Self-talk allows you to readapt your behaviors. You learn to identify with you by relying on feedback.

Your maladaptive manners you will learn to identify by recognizing consequences that emerge from your decisions.

Self-talk guides you to self-control. Self-talk will encourage to master your senses and take control of your life by saying, I feel better when I do not smoke and tobacco is not my commander, rather I am the master of my will to do or not to do something that could cause me harm.

Self-talk involves positive use of feelings. When you learn to identify your feelings it intensifies you will to accept these feelings. You have a deeper awareness and learn to take responsibility of your actions.

Self-talk gives you new insight. You gain encouragement by understanding the underneath reasons behind your actions. The dynamics and assumptions you gain insight of will help you explore your subconscious mind by finding new cognitions and motivation. Your behaviors you will review, as well as you attitudes, beliefs, feelings, etc.

As you move along likely, you will find causes behind why you smoke. This will help you by allowing you to accept. Once you accept you will find willpower to stop.

Using affirmatives, self-talk and at times role-play you can adjust your life by making new changes. Changes you will see in a new light. Rather than think of changes as a burden you will feel a boost in development to new adaptive abilities, skills, cognitions, behaviors, etc. you will find it easier to deal with friends, family or other folks around you.

Once you see ways to make changes. Start reinforcing these changes by self-talking your way through the processes. Use positive underpinning choices regarding your behavioral patterns. You will see your cognitions in view.

Using rein forcers move to challenge resistance. Use resistance in a way that you can conquer the impediments to improve and change effectively.

Now start to resolve the problems within your relationships. Start building a level functioning coalition and move to reconcile the ruptures. Contend with your dependency to rely on tobacco and then discover and determine these disturbances.

You will not find it easy at first to stop smoking. Yet if you work at it and continue positive self-talk in time you will find it easier to stop. The first step is discovering the cause, move to effect and challenge the obstacles so that you can remove them.

Once you complete your therapy start moving along with your objectives, and begin implementing new ideas so that you can find ways to remove these nasty habits. Take time to gain structure in your life and then remove any inconsistencies when they come along. Challenge your issues and set goals. Set goals to stop smoking. Give yourself a timeline to stop. Creating a plan to make it happen

mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
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All of us need to feel healthy and happy in our daily lives in order to feel content with our selves. Positive thinking and self-talk will help us become content and help keep us in a better and healthy future.

If you like your intimate self, then odds will be that you do not need to work to impenetrable lengths at becoming a more appealing and choice personality. People who are well off in their own skin are not the clan who seek to develop or adjust their personalities.

We need to exercise each and every day in order to stay healthy.  By exercising we can improve your self-esteem, confidence, help prevent diseases, and it helps to keep our weight in control as well.

I know you’ve probably been on a million diets and nothing works or tried every exercise program that comes out. You are still 10 pounds over weight and you have no energy to do anything. The cloths you grew out of are still hanging in the closet that hasn’t been worn all winter because they are too small.  Start now and think positive telling yourself that we can get back into those cloths or you will succeed at this new exercise program you want to get started with.

Make some goals like how much weight you want and will lose in the next 6 months.  Tell yourself that in six months you’ll drop a size in cloths.  Don’t think negative and say you’ll never see the day come.

By positive thinking and self-talk, you can do anything you want to do with a little hard work and changes in your life style. Create a list of goals is the first step and don’t look back once you’ve started working on them.  Keep pushing yourself to reach the end of the rainbow.

Start an exercise program today and set a certain time aside just for you. Don’t let yourself tell you that you don’t have time this is negative thinking. Tell yourself that you can find time to do for yourself.

Watch what you’re eating. For sure, don’t let your inner self say that it isn’t possible you already failed twice or more times.  You can do it just watch how much and what you eat.  Be sure to get all the vitamins in that you need in order to exercise and stay healthy.

Think positive and tell yourself that you’re going to eat right so you can do your exercise program. Staying healthy is a way of life and gives you the happiness you deserve.

Stay healthy by stop smoking. Tell yourself that you don’t need cigarettes to be happy and content.  I know your inner feeling are thinking positive because it wants a cigarette but don’t listen stop smoking to be healthier and it will save you money for that new outfit you’ve been wanting.
Positive thinking and self-talk can do a lot for you and your health.  It can help prevent many diseases like cancer, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and help to prevent many other thinks as well.

Depression can be caused from not thinking positive. Your mind will tell you that you have no energy, to stay in bed all day or the house cleaning can wait until tomorrow.  Don’t let depression take over your life.  Stay in touch with yourself and use your self-power in thinking positive. It is much the same effect as is had when a bosom buddy* gives us a sincere compliment about some manner of our character; not fastidious are we content to hear this, but we become more responsive of this gratifying eminence and it helps us to make an unconscious completion to put it forward more.

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Michael Holt, Ph.D.
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Maybe we don’t come to know about that subliminal parts of learning just then, but the thing we have embedded in the mind this way will remain with us. Our witty minds are actively working to methodize all these perceptions in a way, which makes us more knowledgeable and well rounded due to our letters. Thus, every item that is learned by our brain at a subliminal self or positive self-talk is recorded by it and all this recording and activity of our brain develops our personality.

Those who believe in learning also believe that the Self Talk can have lots and many effects on us. Self-Talk has a power of changing and enhancing our personalities. Personality of a person is a mix of his or her emotions, beliefs, views and perceptions. All these factors collectively generate the attitude of that person as well as the behavior. Now as the perceptions are an important part of making up our personality, the subliminal perceptions can also be as effective in shaping our personality as the subconscious or conscious ones.

A person who watches a movie for example will learn something at the subconscious level. The movie’s message will be understood by the person in a known manner. But the colors used in the movie, the sound tracks, the graphics used as well as the cinematography may have some subliminal effect on that person.

There may be a huge part of the learning from that movie which may be subliminal in nature. The people who believe and advocate the Self Talk concept believe that many changes that occur in a person after viewing any such movie or viewing a natural scene or some thing of the sort are due to the subliminally learned perceptions. If done by proper planning, the Self Talk practices can help people improve themselves as a person.
In the current era, the advertisers have used more than one option to promote the products, which help you in subliminal learning. The advocates of Self Talk believe that people can improve their personalities by listening to some special sequences of sounds and music as well as many such techniques. The advertisers are making all the efforts they can to make the public believe that the stuff, which is said to improve your personality by Self Talk, is a good one. Although the other school of thought does not believe in it, still, the sales of the products related to Self Talk and improvement in your personality by using them are great.

Whether these instruments are actually impressive enough to be able to improve our personality or not is a debatable question. Some people think that their experience with the related stuff was not worth it and they have just lost money to the deceptive advertisers. The others think that the CDs and the Soft wares they have bought and used for Self Talk purpose are very effective. They are good to listen to and are effective enough to bring a positive change in the personality of the user in very few days. Some people claim that the Self Talk aids have helped them control their mood swings.

Whenever we talk about any thing there always are good or bad things attached to it. There may not be as much advantages of Self Talk as the advertisers claim. Nevertheless, there may be few good effects this type of learning can create in a personality.
What suits us the best is to make best use of what learning aids are available. This you can do only by following all the instructions closely which have been given to you for using that particular Self Talk equipment. By doing so, your chances of getting the best out of this experience will be more.

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Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine
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We all want to succeed in the world whether it is in health or life in general. Without positive thinking and self-talk, we won’t be able to get ahead and succeed in anything.

Negative thinking will get us nowhere in life. We need to learn to stop listening to our subconscious before it has a chance to take over and rule us.

Our subconscious picks up negative thoughts from things it has heard and embeds it into our brain.  If someone has told you that you can’t do something, or you fail once why try again. These are just a couple of things that we have all heard one time or another.

Changing our way of thinking isn’t easy to do; so we have to think positive and tell yourself with self-talk that we can change. Keep repeating it so you can overpower the negative thoughts and change them.

Changing your thinking to be positive will take a while because our subconscious is always in the way with negative thoughts that no way are going to help us change how we think if we let them. Telling yourself that you’re going to change on how you feel about yourself or your job by repeating it repeatedly will over rule and win.

Think positive and you can use self-talk to get you anywhere you want to go in the future to success. Success is a lot of work for most of us and when you keep telling yourself that you can succeed you will go ahead and meet your dream before long.

Writing will help us succeed in the future by making and setting goals. Writing will relieve stress that keeps us from doing many things in our lives.  Stress will take over and control us just as our subconscious will.

Relieve some unwanted stress with the goals you have for the future by writing them down. Thinking negative thoughts cause stress and stress runs our bodies down causing depression. Don’t let stress and negative thoughts take control.

Start today on relieving stress and thinking positive to success. There is success out there for all of us when we tell ourselves we can get to the pot of gold at the end by making changes in our lives.

To relieve the stress we have to make changes. If your goal is to lose weight, you have to relieve the stress by not think negative things and change your diet. You want to change your thinking and diet so that it harmonizes. Exercise to lose weight is making changes in our lives by telling ourselves that we will find the time to exercise three times a week to help get rid of unwanted weight. Exercise will help to relieve stress by taking time for you to reach the goal of losing weight. When you make these changes that is thinking positive that you will succeed.

Success is all in the positive thinking and self talk that we can change the way we think and do things. We can relieve stress that is cause from the changes in order to succeed.

Now work with me:
I want to lose weight. I am willing to put forth the effort to lose five pounds in the next couple of weeks. I plan to exercise, diet and use self-talk to start thinking positive and to lose the weight I desire to lose. I will not fail, since I am confident that I can lose this weight in a timely manner. I do not expect more from me than I can manage.

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Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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How to apply positive self-talk and to employ the process of suggestibility to overcome fear of flying

Why should we want to overcome fear of flying, specifically?

While there are lots of fears experienced by a wide variety of people, probably one of the most common today is the fear of flying. It may not have a debilitating effect on everybody, but for a culture that relies so much on air travel it can be especially problematic for many people.

Some people who would rely most heavily on plane travel are of course those who fly most frequently, such as people who need to travel by plane for business purposes, or those who have family spread out over a wide area and the means with which to keep in frequent touch with them.

These people, however, likely spend so much time flying that they have been able to overcome whatever timidity may have experienced. Instead, it is the people who find themselves by necessity compelled to board a plane, perhaps to visit a relative in an emergency or to travel due to a recent relocation, who are most likely to find themselves suddenly forced to confront their fear. While it may be possible to book an alternative route, this is often cost-prohibitive, especially if travel is required over water. In such cases, it becomes especially necessary to confront the fear.

All right, so how do I employ positive self-talk techniques to help me overcome my fear of flying?

Because the process of employing positive self-talk techniques is really just the process of initiating a program of self-conditioning, many of the techniques used to employ the process are very similar to those used when a subject wishes to engage in self-hypnosis.

Bearing this in mind, subjects will be able to understand why in this instance it can be very helpful to employ the use of recorded tapes or CDs to help in training the mind to overcome the fear of flying. Tapes should obviously not be purchased pre-recorded but instead should be recorded in the subject’s own voice, thereby increasing the comfort level even of those people most resistant to the idea of suggestibility, since recognizing their own voice speaking to them is likely to lower their level of mistrust significantly. If tapes are unavailable or the subject is uncomfortable when using them, start speaking to one directly – the “old-fashioned” way! – Also works.

What should these tapes say?

It is important that subjects use the tapes not to stress what is currently the case, such as their fear of flying, but instead to stress what they want to be the case in the future. For that reason, they should be certain that the statements on the tapes reflect the reality that they want to take place. Some suggestions are:

I am proud that I can now do something I used to be afraid of
I do not have to be nervous or tense about the prospect of flying. I find it easy to relax.

It is lucky that I can use air travel to get where I need to go so quickly. This excites rather than alarms me.

My ability to overcome my fear of flying will give me greater self-confidence in all areas of my life. It will give me an increased sense of self-control.

I will manifest faith and confidence when I am on the plane.

Instead of worrying about my fear, I will adopt the ability to take control of it. I am in control of my fear and I will overcome it.

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Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine
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I’m sure you have a bright idea hidden somewhere in the back of your mind that you just can’t wait to test out. Of course you’re not the only one with the bright idea. So what motivates you to churn those creative, or even inspiring juices to its utmost flavor?

It’s always best to set up a personal goal where you can accomplish the most in record time, maybe like mowing the lawn in an hour before the big game on TV. A correct and positive attitude in whatever you do will make things easier, and even enjoyable.

Here are some tips to make it through the week even if you’re just sitting in your favorite couch. An idea takes time to form in your head and is always at work while you are busy sitting.

Having a bit of positive thinking can help you realize things that are never thought possible. Thinking big is indeed the American Way and that what made our country prosperous.

1. Take passionate action towards living your life by design. Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void.

This is a perfect example where dreams are made of where you start by tinkering with your mind, then with your hands. And if the idea weakens, you can always go back to it later until you finish it.

2. Commit to yourself as well as those you love to create powerfully a life you can love. Instead of reacting, commit to creating from your heart and soul, out of love rather than fear. The American Dream will always be there, but a dream will still be a dream without motion. Be amazed as the transformation begins.

3. Recognize and embrace the thought that each moment is perfect regardless of its outcome. Every time you hit on something that may appear too extreme, why not give it a shot and see if it will work. You will be surprised to see of there are other ways to get the task done in time. If you are not pleased with the outcome, decide to use that moment to learn from and make the appropriate shift.

4. Dwell completely in a place of gratitude. Learn to utilize what you have in your hands and make use of it in the most constructive way. Slipping into neediness will become less of a habit when you repeatedly shift towards gratitude, away from poverty consciousness.

5. Use a Passion Formula of Recognize/Reevaluate/Restore in place of the Shoulda/Woulda/Coulda whirlwind. The former is based in increased knowledge and abundance while the latter focuses on scarcity and lack. As you face people or tasks that may seem harder than scaling the summit of the Himalayas, allow yourself to realize that the task is just as important as giving out orders to your subordinates. You would rather be richly passionate!

6. Keep humor at the forefront of thought, laughing at and with yourself when possible. You may find yourself quite entertaining when you loosen up! I am yet to see a comedian ever go hungry even though his jokes are as ‘old as great-grandma’. Life has so much to offer to allow you to mope around in self pity. Humor is very attractive, very passionate: life-giving.

7. Believe that you are the architect of your destiny. No one can take your passionate future from you except for you! Create your life authentically. As long as there’s still breath in your body, there is no end to how much you can accomplish in a lifetime. The concept of thinking big is all about enjoying your work, which would lead to celebrate a discovery that is born within your hands. Watch everything flow into place with perfect, passionate precision.

It’s interesting how people get wallowed up by something trivial as learning to use a computer, when nowadays that top computer companies are manufacturing software that even the kids can do it. I don’t mean to be condescending, but that’s the idea of not having any positive thinking in your life-you’ll just end up as a dim bulb in a dark corner. So instead of subjecting yourself to what you will be doomed for, make your path by taking the first step with a positive attitude.

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Michael Holt, Ph.D.

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I seem to lost count on how many times I’ve read and heard of celebrity marriages failing almost left and right. Not that I care (and personally I don’t), it seems strange that we often see movie and TV stars as flawless people, living the fairytale life of riches and glamor. I suppose we all have to stop sticking our heads in the clouds and face reality.

There are many ways to lose your sense of self-esteem despite of how trivial it could get. But whatever happens, we should all try not to lose our own sense of self.

So what does it take to be a cut above the rest? Here are some of the things you can think and improve on that should be enough for a week.

1. Know your purpose
Are you wandering through life with little direction – hoping that you’ll find happiness, health and prosperity? Identify your life purpose or mission statement and you will have your own unique compass that will lead you to your truth north every time.

This may seem tricky at first when you see yourself to be in a tight or even dead end. But there’s always that little loophole to turn things around and you can make a big difference to yourself.

2. Know your values
What do you value most? Make a list of your top 5 values. Some examples are security, freedom, family, spiritual development, learning. As you set your goals for 2005 – check your goals against your values. If the goal doesn’t align with any of your top five values – you may want to reconsider it or revise it.

The number shouldn’t discourage you, instead it should motivate you to do more than you can ever dreamed of.

3. Know your needs
Unmet needs can keep you from living authentically. Take care of yourself. Do you have a need to be acknowledged, to be right, to be in control, to be loved? There are so many people who lived their lives without realizing their dreams and most of them end up being stressed or even depressed for that matter. List your top four needs and get them met before it’s too late!

4. Know your passions
You know who you are and what you truly enjoy in life. Obstacles like doubt and lack of enthusiasm will only hinder you, but will not derail your chance to become the person you ought to be. Express yourself and honor the people who has inspired you to become the very person you wanted to be.

5. Live from the inside out
Increase your awareness of your inner wisdom by regularly reflecting in silence. Commune with nature. Breathe deeply to quiet your distracted mind. For most of us city slickers it’s hard to even find the peace and quiet we want even in our own home. In my case I often just sit in a dimly lit room and play some classical music. There’s sound, yes, but music does soothe the savage beast.

6. Honor your strengths
What are your positive traits? What special talents do you have? List three – if you get stuck, ask those closest to you to help identify these. Are you imaginative, witty, good with your hands? Find ways to express your authentic self through your strengths. You can increase your self-confidence when you can share what you know to others.

7. Serve others
When you live authentically, you may find that you develop an interconnected sense of being. When you are true to who you are, living your purpose and giving of your talents to the world around you, you give back in service what you came to share with others -your spirit – your essence. The rewards for sharing your gift with those close to you is indeed rewarding, much more if it were to be the eyes of a stranger who can appreciate what you have done to them.

Self-improvement is indeed one type of work that is worth it. It shouldn’t always be within the confines of an office building, or maybe in the four corners of your own room. The difference lies within ourselves and how much we want to change for the better.

mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.

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