You mentioned in our previous exchange using side B of Automatic Pilot to wire in new habits. The last time I listened to that side, a strange thought occurred to me: the tape asks you to repeat a new behavior over and over at ever increasing speeds--to get it ingrained. Sometimes, while I'm listening to a paraliminal, my conscious mind wanders and any number of thoughts cross my awareness. When I consciously noticed the part in the tape about rehearsing a behavior, I thought "jeez, I'd better not let in any thought of any behavior or experience that I WOULDN'T want to have. Of course, at that point my mind paraded in front of my some examples of undesirable scenarios and behaviors. Kind of like the old Pink Elephant Analogy where if you're told to "not think of a pink elephant" -- and you can't get it out of your head.
Because the mental rehearsals that Paul Scheele leads you through on that tape go faster and faster -- and are repeated a number of times, I started thinking "I hope these mental rehearsals are reinforcing the behavior that I ACTUALLY INTEND and not these undesirable fleeting thoughts." This gets compounded by the fact that I start worrying that I'm reinforcing a bad habit -- rather than the one you really want. For example, I don’t smoke, but if I get a persistent picture in my mind of me smoking while listening to the mental rehearsal part of the tape, would I be rehearsing a habit that might compel me to start smoking?
Probably sounds a little silly, but it is a concern.
Thanks.