Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Habits


I believe that when we repeat certain action enough times it becomes a habit and we start doing it subconsciously without even thinking about.

We can use this part of our mind to our advantage and make a lot of things much easier in our lives. If we want to make a change, we can keep repeating the new action enough times for it to become a habit and we will start doing it effortlessly. Subconscious actions are most efficient because we don’t use our conscious mind to do it. We can start multitasking very easily, we can concentrate on one thing while accomplishing a different thing without even knowing about it. We can set a lot of our life on auto pilot and good things will happen automatically, it might even feel like that the good things happen on their own, without us doing much.

So imagine, if we could set our happiness on auto pilot. We can be happy and even feel like we are not even working on it. This can have an amazing effect on our life.

This is why we do need to pay attention to our habits. Sometimes, even a good habit can change into a bad habit as our life change and we end up with habits that are not good for our happiness any more. Changing habits can be very hard, it depends how long we’ve had that habit for and how much we enjoyed doing it.

I believe that the only person that we can truly control is ourselves and therefore we can stop ourselves from doing something we don't want to do. I’m not saying that it is easy but it’s achievable and using our emotions will make it faster and easier.

I believe that we can’t stop a bad habit if we feel happier when we doing it or are thinking about it. It’s easier to get rid of a bad habit if we feel sad when we do it. It’s also easier to create a good habit that is positively reinforced, that is we feel happy when we do it. I mean to find thoughts that make us feel good or thoughts that bring up the bad consequences of doing the thing that we want to change. I’m not saying it will take overnight but it’s surely improving our chances of stopping our bad habits considerably. Sometimes, just patience and being happy for every little change can help too.

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