HOW TO BREAK A HABITIntroduction
Breaking a habit can be one of the most taxing and demanding of all activities. Even if there is discipline involved and resolutions put into place,breaking a habit can be challenging. It might be a diet that someone is trying to get used to,or even trying to break a habit such as smoking,but still ending up after so much effort going back to the routine. The reason is back to the fundamental structure and reason that as a human being we are quit well engineered with such exactitude. Breaking a habit becomes a conflict between the conscious and the subconscious. What happens is that the mind proposes this but the subconscious has totally a different idea and anytime this happens the subconscious always wins since it is the seat of memory,imagination and habit.
Someone can convince his or her mind and even draft down what to do and what not to,but at the same time they still imagine how that triple stuck burger smells and tastes like. Another person somewhere,who is stuck with a combination of all this habits still has an imagination of the smell of cigarettes or a habit that is well known to him and breaking the habit seems very disappointing. Knowing also that the subconscious is the seat of imagination and your mind pictures are still intact,how can we counter this?
Steps to breaking a habit
The first step of breaking a habit is to use words that suit that particular situation as counter suggestions,which are to be repeated and affirmed to be true,until they become automatic and no longer a question of judgment by the subconscious. Each time the conscious picks up something as new and true,the subconscious being the seat of habit picks it up and forms a new habit. The conscious is like a guard at the gate and controls who goes in and who goes out,the subconscious then not being in a position to argue or be counter suggestive in any way picks up the new habit.
The second step to breaking a habit is to use motivation in the words and add life to the affirmations. The subconscious being also the seat of emotions,this will help the new habit take root a bit faster. As it is a fact that at any one time,emotions are much stronger than your rational,and this gives the route of action a solid foundation.
The third part of breaking a habit is to ignore thoughts of the old habits. When a person tries to resist a thought,he is still having it in his mind and hence he is still giving it energy and quit entertaining it. By ignoring it,a person is depriving it's existence,and getting the much needed effect. Science tells as that the more a person entertains a thought,the more they concentrate energy on it and the more they give life to it,and thus has to manifest in their character which is the backbone of habit. So the more it comes to mind and it is ignored,it slowly fades away. It is like when the roots of a plant are cut,the first day the plant will be normal,but on consequent days it will wither and finally die. Make that thought die by simply ignoring it.
Conclusion
In conclusion,try is to pick up a new habit and visualize on it,because when a person see's in the form of imagination,and the more they do it,they start to feel it and when they feel they are simply giving the thought life through emotions. So anytime an old habit tries to kick in,integrate that new thought and the affirmation with desire and motivation and this will help the new idea sink in the subconscious thus breaking a habit from its origin and establishing a new habit in the process.
