Habits are just undesired learnt behaviour

NLP offers a number of techniques that can help you easily and quickly change your habits.

The mind has two parts: the conscious and the subconscious. A useful analogy is an iceberg.  The conscious mind is the bit that sticks out of the water. The subconscious mind is the bit hidden away underneath the surface.  The subconscious is where all the things that you have learnt to do without thinking are done.

For instance, when you first drove a car, you had to consciously work out where to put each foot and how to use each new control. As your driving skills developed, you handed more and more control over to your subconscious mind. Now you are so proficient that you can drive, navigate and talk to your passenger all at the same time!

Surprisingly, it is the subconscious that can be in control of our behaviour most of the time. Once you realise that, a lot of things begin to make sense. This is the reason people find it very difficult to stop smoking – they have consciously decided that smoking is bad for their health, costs a fortune, is ruining their complexion, etc. However, they have not taken into account their subconscious reasons for wanting to carry on smoking. Go back to the iceberg analogy; if the little bit at the top wants to go one way and the huge bit at the bottom wants
to go the other way, guess who’s going to win?

Consciously we know smoking is bad for you.  We know eating too much chocolate makes us put on weight; we know drinking too much alcohol isn’t good for you. So why do we do it?

Because the iceberg is still sailing away!