si dawson

So here's a quick trick I learned recently.

It's using Neuro Lin­guis­tic Pro­gram­ming. But don't worry about that, it's super simple.

I was shown this in terms of break­ing bad shop­ping habits, but I fig­ured, since I'm try­ing out a cou­ple of weeks of 100% raw, why not use it on food places around town that I've devel­oped emo­tional affec­tion for, but that aren't nec­es­sar­ily the health­i­est for me, if-you-know-what-I-mean.

So, here's the drill:

1. Think of the habit you're try­ing to kick. Get really excited about it. As you do, squeeze your left thumb & fore fin­ger together.
2. Repeat 1 with as many sim­i­lar habits as you can. Eg, I just went around all the food places I wanted to stop lust­ing after. Do this until sim­ply squeez­ing your fin­gers together brings up the desire.
3. Now, think of some­thing you would never buy, no mat­ter what. Some­thing that fills you with utter dis­gust. The more out­raged and digusted you are the better.
4. Make this dis­gust­ing image as big as pos­si­ble in your mind, so it com­pletely over­whelms you (yeah, puke! puke!). Then, as it maxes out, squeeze your left thumb & fore­fin­ger together tightly.

Do this process as many times as you like, until the very thought of the things you craved before leaves you with a feel­ing of discomfort.

Total time it took me? Oh, about 2 min­utes. So far, in the three days since I did this, I haven't had a sin­gle pos­i­tive thought towards any of these places. In fact, I find it dif­fi­cult to even think about them. My brain just isn't interested.

Nifty!