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The six steps of NAC



The six steps of NAC  (Neuro Associative Conditioning) can be used for anything : challenges with relationships, problems in business, being stuck in a pattern of yelling at your children. 

 Let's say you worry too much about things over which you have no control. How can you use the six steps to change this disempowering pattern?

 1) Ask yourself, "What do I want to do instead of worry?"

 2) Get leverage on yourself and realize what worry does to destroy your life. Bring it to threshold; see what it would cost you ultimately in your life so that your're not willing to  pay that price anymore. 

 3)Interrupt the pattern : Every time you worry, break the pattern by being totally outrageous. Belt out "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!" at the top of your lungs.

 4)Create an empowering alternative. What will you do instead of worry? Pull out your journal and write down a plan of what you can do immediately instead. Maybe you can go for a run, and while you're running, you can think of new solutions.

 5) Condition the new pattern: vividly imagine and rehearse this new pattern with tremendous emotional intensity and repetition until this new thought, behaviour  or emotional pattern is automatic.
Reinforce yourself by taking the first step : see yourself succeeding again and again. Seeing the results in advance can give you the pleasure you desire. Again, use repetition and emotional intensity to condition the new pattern until it's consistent. 

 6) Test it and see if it works. Think about the situation that used to worry you, and see that you no long worry in this situation.

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