Create a distant, third-person image of you feeling the desired response. This is how you want to respond when you see a hot dog stand.
You want to move towards this image, rather than experience it as if it were happening now, so view it through an outside observer's eyes (a “disassociated image”). Visualize yourself "over there," seeing the hot dog stand yet feeling strong and healthy and completely full and satisfied as if you had just eaten. Or see yourself with your perfect body, vital, full of confidence: a person who would rarely eat a hot dog. Or envision yourself doing the breath control exercises. Or visualize yourself working out at the gym
Step Three.
Now swish the two scenes in your mind. Rapidly push the first hot dog stand scene into the distance, and bring the image of the second one into direct view. For effect, you can actually make a swish sound as the images pop into place. See the hot dog stand and then pop the image of you working out in its place. Or see the hot dog stand as if through your eyes and then see yourself over there doing the breath control exercises. Replace the image of the hot dog stand with an image of you doing the breath control exercises, except see it as if you were actually doing them rather than watching yourself do them.
Step Four. Allow the images to settle for a minute in their new places.
Step Five. Clear the images from your mind.
Repeat Steps 1 through 5 over and over for at least 15 minutes or until any thought of the stimulus leads directly to the desired response.
Here’s a variation on this technique: Visualize the second image being pulled back behind the first as if it were in a slingshot. Then release the slingshot so the second image races to the forefront, smashing the first into a million pieces.
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