How to Put Away an Old Habit and Birth a New One

Nicholas PollakOP-ED

After working many six-day weeks, my wife and I took a vacation at Universal Studios in Orlando, where we visited Disneyworld, Epcot Center and the Kennedy Space Center.

I am not bragging, but just to emphasize we did all this in five short days. So much to see. We started early every morning. We only returned at a late hour. 

We were entertained in style, rides, facts, details, amazing sights. We were way out of our comfort zone. 

In our day-to-day lives, we become jaded. Same routine every day. We lose perspective, functioning by rote, thinking little.

We have 66,000 thoughts a day and, often the same ones day after day – unless we take action to change our lives.

Here are samples to help you be less repetitious, such as changing the wrist on which you wear your watch. Change the routine when you dress. Put your socks on before your underwear. Change the leg you put in your pants first. Drive a different route to work.

How Hypnosis Works

Whether or not you realize it, many people walk around all day in a state of hypnosis, especially people driving cars.

When I hold a seminar, I ask the audience if anyone remembers seeing cars on their drive. Answers never vary: No, except for an emergency vehicle. To take that a step further, have you ever noticed how, when you are thinking of buying a new car, suddenly every car happens to be the one you are thinking of buying?

A vacation takes you out of yourself. Our senses become more open to new ideas, allowing us to view days from a different perspective. The key of course is to keep the new ideas in place. Scotch the old habits. 

Making changes on a conscious level requires constant reinforcement. I have mentioned in other essays that a great way to see how you handle change is to move your keys from wherever you normally put them, to a brand new location. For 21 days, place them there. By the end, you will consistently be putting them in the new location.

Making changes on a conscious level takes time and repetition. Hypnosis helps to significantly reduce the time. Hypnosis, rather than creating change on a conscious level, makes the changes within the subconscious. As the subconscious is 90 percent of the 5 percent of brain power we use, you can see clearly that for changes to occur they must happen within the greater percentage.

Let hypnosis help to create the changes you want for your greater success. Think of what you want and change your habit patterns. The changes can lead you to a new life.

Do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321, or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net