| There is a better person in all of us and they are | | | | drive us to do it more and more. It is the feeling |
| waiting to come out. This is especially true if you | | | | of comfort, ease, relaxation and loss of stress |
| are suffering from a lot of bad behavioural | | | | that we experience that is more addictive that |
| patterns or need to kick a few undesirable habits | | | | the actual substance itself. Addiction is a sensory |
| that are detrimental to your health. Being a better | | | | application that we need to recognise, and blaming |
| person doesn't always mean being better for | | | | a chemical compound will get us nowhere. Mental |
| others, but it also means changing and stopping | | | | associations are very powerful forces indeed |
| yourself from doing the things that could | | | | because they are rooted in the subconscious and |
| potentially wreck your life or hold you back from | | | | they reproduce sensory stimulants/memory that |
| experiencing the successes that you deserve. Let | | | | cause us to re enact these moments through our |
| us take ambition for an example. | | | | bad habits. It becomes so routine that the mind |
| Some of us have an immense drive and energy | | | | releases chemical reactions before, during and |
| to constantly improve ourselves and some of us | | | | even after the process so that we crave, we are |
| do not. For the latter, we are quite content to | | | | satisfied and we crave some more. |
| work on the things that life hands to us and view | | | | What do you get when you combine the two? A |
| the top of the mountain as a waste of effort and | | | | person with no ambition and one who is driven to |
| energy. We normally have low energy levels and | | | | death with his addictions. The mind is tricking you |
| often recluse ourselves, subjecting our lives to a | | | | and it is time to fight fire with fire. Science and |
| monotony of circular activities that have no | | | | the personal development industry has stepped in |
| benefit to us at all. Comfortable with the familiar | | | | and given us the tools that we need to fight the |
| and insecure with new changes. What about if we | | | | persuasions rooted in the cerebral cortex. Binaural |
| have a bad habit like smoking and drinking? There | | | | beats, subliminal messages, autogenics and |
| is no physical need for these activities but the | | | | biofeedback are just some of the technologies |
| mind often tells us that we need to perform | | | | that are available from medicine and science - for |
| them to serve a function and make us feel good. | | | | the end user to make use of. Become a better |
| The problem with the world today is that they | | | | person by attacking the root of the problem - |
| view nicotine and alcohol as drugs that are purely | | | | and soon you will see a change in yourself like |
| causing the addiction driving these two industries. I | | | | never before. Trick the mind and become a |
| would argue that they are not. | | | | better person today with brainwave entrainment |
| I would say that it is the experience of smoking | | | | technology. |
| and drinking and what we associate it with that | | | | |