Tony Robbins – Personal Power II – Day 4 – Neuroassociative Conditioning

Day 4 – Review and summary

Still working on the basics of changing one’s life. To do that, we must change our neuroassociations of how our nervous system and emotions respond to events. To do THAT, there are three things that need to be decided:

1. Get the edge on yourself. There are three levels of decision required to comply with this part. Remember that when you “decide” on something, you are about to cut off all other options. This first step is probably the one that carries the most weight. If you’re not THAT committed to the change, it probably won’t work.

A. Something MUST change.

B. I must change it.

C. I can change it.

2. Interrupt your patterns of associations that you currently have. If you use a conscious radical change with what you say or how you move, it will help to decipher the old pattern of feelings and thoughts. The example of continually scratching the surface of a record so that it no longer plays helped to add a visual touch to the process.

3 Don’t just get rid of the old, you must also put together a new empowering association. Decide on a new pattern that you would like to reinforce and condition in yourself. Any thought, behavior, or emotion that is consistently reinforced over time will become a habit. Be sure to link pleasure with your new choice. If you reward yourself for even small changes, you’ll find that new patterns develop quite quickly.

For today’s homework, build on yesterday’s list of four actions. Just look for Day 3 on this site or on my blog, link below.

1.) To gain leverage: write down ten reasons why you should change now and reasons why you know you can. Someone recently made the observation that in 5 years I will have arrived. Where that arrival will be is up to me.

Did you know that most people spend much more time planning their annual vacation than planning their life? I’m not sure why that is, but I’ve been there. Perhaps knowing that vacation time is very limited and you want to make the most of it… How does that relate to the bigger picture of our lives? I guess if I see my life as one GIANT vacation, but knowing that my time here is very limited, wouldn’t that change the way I plan? I think so!

two). If you can, design at least four or five ways to interrupt your own pattern. Try funny voice work, jumping jacks, staring at the ceiling, making faces: basically anything that changes the physiology or shifts attention in a more powerful direction.

3). Rehearse your new behavior and this will help condition you. By choosing where we are going, we are actually DECONDITIONING (already conditioned) from what we don’t want and then consciously reconditioning ourselves to create the new habits we want. How cool is that?

So what would happen if we looked at life as something very finite? Would there be any benefit in not taking our time for granted? What would that look like? Until tomorrow –

Go ahead!