But what to do when the experiences to turn back are missing? Can you then trick the limbic system? Yes, experts say, and they swear by autogenic training: first, you are put into deep relaxation; your mind lets go and your subconscious is particularly receptive. Under therapeutic guidance, you then try to visualize the result of the desired change in a positive way. Here is an example: With the sentence “I am slim and feel light and free,” one associates an image in one’s mind that reflects this situation. For example, one could imagine jumping off the starting block in a bikini. If you succeed in storing this image, the motivation for the behavior change doubles. Together with the right strategy, you can then soon better put your resolutions into practice.
What drives me?
If you set out to do something that is actually against your nature, you run the risk of failure. Often one wants to correspond with it only to a certain image. Every change costs strength and energy to be able to reach the goal. To question the motivation of the resolution is therefore always worthwhile.
Inaugurate others?
Yes, because who also has to exist in front of others, automatically makes more effort and incidentally thinks more concretely into his desired behavior. This makes it easier to implement later. But also a skeptical feedback from the environment can rather benefit than harm some, according to the motto: “I’ll show you already”.
Small steps bring a quicker sense of achievement
You should also reward yourself for small steps. Example: If I manage to exercise for half an hour twice a week, I buy myself a good book.
Dealing with setbacks
Setbacks should be taken into account from the outset and should not be understood as failure down the line. Rather as a chance to ask what the problem was. Only then can you prepare yourself better for the next time and/or seek help in good time. Emotional stress, personal crises or health disorders such as headaches or respiratory infections can always throw us back into old role patterns. They weaken the brain‘s control mechanisms and call up tried-and-tested, albeit bad, automatisms. The danger of reaching for a cigarette or chocolate is particularly high now. Once you have broken the rule, it is usually said: Now nothing matters. But that is wrong.
