If you’re still with me on the Valentine’s Resolution, your next step is to visualize yourself successfully using your new behavior.  So, sit quietly for a few moments.  Breathe deeply and relax.  Picture yourself having successfully achieved your resolution.  You’ve fully integrated it into your way of being.  Engage all of your senses as you imagine how it looks and feels to use your new behaviors. Studies have shown that when emotions are engaged, people remember events better.  The more intense the emotion, the stronger the memory.  So, invite all of your senses and your emotions in to this visualization experience.  Think of it as a dress rehearsal.  See and feel yourself being successful using the new behaviors.  Since your body can’t distinguish between you actually experiencing something and you having an intense mental thought about it, your energy will align with you mental image and experience and when you are in the real situation, you will more easily reproduce the desired behavior you visualized.