15 Ways to Hack Your Brain to Break Bad Habits
Summary
TLDRThe script offers 15 strategies to break bad habits by rewiring the brain. It emphasizes hacking the subconscious mind during suggestible states like early morning or before sleep, embracing mistakes for neural pathway change, using emotional priming to associate good feelings with new habits, and mentally rehearsing actions. It also advises against forcing change with negative information, taking control over automatic reactions, using routines to rewire habits, identifying emotional triggers, shortening emotional reactions, reprogramming the brain's reward system, being curious, embracing fear of the unknown, starting the day in the present, not waiting for external changes, and utilizing meditation and mindfulness to enhance these techniques.
Takeaways
- 🧠 Hack your brain at the right point: Use the quiet moments just after waking up or before falling asleep to implant new ideas and scenarios that break the bad habit.
- 🚀 Make mistakes: Mistakes break old neural pathways and pave the way for new ones, use them to gather data and understand what doesn't work.
- 😌 Use emotional priming: Train your brain to associate good emotions with good habits, rehearsing the feelings you want to experience when breaking a habit.
- 🤔 Mentally rehearse specific actions: Visualize the steps to break a habit, creating new neural pathways in your brain.
- 🚫 Don't force change with negative information: Focus on the gains of letting go of a habit, not the negatives.
- 🏋️♂️ Take control from automatic reactions: Interrupt your habits at unpredictable times to assert control over your actions.
- 🔄 Use routines to rewire habits: Change the place or context where you perform a habit to break the neural connections.
- 🔍 Find the emotional triggers: Identify the emotions that lead to your bad habits and find healthier alternatives to fulfill those emotional needs.
- 🔁 Shorten emotional reactions: Control how long you dwell on an emotion to prevent it from becoming a part of your personality.
- 🏃♂️ Reprogram your brain's reward system: Give yourself healthier rewards for good habits instead of relying on the old primal rewards.
- 🤓 Be curious, not critical: Use curiosity to break autopilot mode and train your brain to be more aware and in control.
- 🌟 Embrace the unknown: Get used to the fear of change and take action anyway, your body will adapt.
- 🌞 Start your day in the present: Narrate your present actions and future plans to avoid reliving past events and emotions.
- 🏁 Don't wait for external changes: Begin breaking habits now, don't delay for external circumstances to change.
- 🧘♀️ Meditation and mindfulness: Practice these to gain control over your mind and make breaking habits easier.
Q & A
What is the main reason most people fail when they first try to break a bad habit?
-Most people fail because they try to break the habit in the wrong ways. Habits are hardwired into the brain, and to break them, one must effectively rewire the brain's 'source code' that created the habit in the first place.
Why is it suggested to target the subconscious mind when attempting to change habits?
-The subconscious mind is considered an easier entry point for rewiring habits compared to the conscious mind, which is often cluttered with noise and harder to influence. The subconscious is more suggestible during moments of quiet, such as upon waking or just before sleep.
How can making mistakes help in breaking a bad habit?
-Mistakes can break old neural pathways and create new ones. They interrupt the system, causing chaos that is beneficial for change. Each mistake provides an opportunity to gather new data and understand what doesn't work, thus helping the brain to rewire and recognize alternative behaviors.
What role do emotions play in maintaining or breaking habits?
-Emotions are key to controlling habits. Bad habits are often turned to for comfort during negative emotional states. Emotional priming, which involves rehearsing positive emotions associated with breaking a habit, can help train the brain to expect and associate good emotions with new, healthier behaviors.
Why is it important to mentally rehearse specific actions for success when trying to break a habit?
-Mental rehearsal of specific actions helps create new neural pathways in the brain, essentially 're-stacking the dominoes' to fall in a different direction. This makes the physical changes to break the habit easier to achieve.
How can focusing on the negative aspects of a habit backfire when trying to break it?
-Focusing on how bad a habit is can activate guilt, shame, and anxiety, which actually triggers more stress and reinforces the bad habit. Instead, one should focus on the benefits of letting go of the habit and frame the change as a gain rather than a loss.
What is the significance of taking control of automatic reactions in breaking habits?
-Habits often become automatic, and the body reacts to triggers before the conscious mind can intervene. Taking control of these reactions by interrupting them at unpredictable times helps assert dominance over the habit and shows the brain who is in charge.
How can changing the location of a habitual action help in rewiring the brain?
-Neuroscience suggests that 'nerve cells that fire together, wire together.' Changing the location of a habitual action disrupts the neural connections associated with that habit, making the brain 'wake up' and reconsider the action, thus helping to rewire the habit.
What is the purpose of finding the emotional triggers behind a habit?
-Identifying the emotional triggers behind a habit helps understand the emotional need that the habit is fulfilling. Once known, healthier habits can be developed to meet that emotional need, thus breaking the cycle of turning to the bad habit.
How can shortening emotional reactions help in habit formation or breaking?
-Shortening the refractory period of emotional reactions can prevent them from becoming ingrained habits or personality traits. By focusing on the lessons from an emotional event and not dwelling on it, one can control how long the reaction lasts and avoid reinforcing bad habits.
Why is it recommended to avoid starting the day with thoughts from the past?
-Starting the day with thoughts from the past can lead to reliving past events and emotions, which may not be productive for the current day. Focusing on the present and future can help in breaking this cycle and taking control of one's habits and thoughts.
How does meditation and mindfulness help in breaking bad habits?
-Meditation and mindfulness can help by providing control over the mind, allowing one to actively create new thoughts and situations. They also develop metacognition, the ability to think about one's own thinking, making it easier to break bad habits by viewing impulses objectively.
Outlines
🧠 Rewiring the Brain to Break Bad Habits
The paragraph discusses the difficulty of breaking bad habits due to their deep-rooted nature in the brain. It suggests that the key to breaking a habit is to hack the brain at the right moment, specifically targeting the subconscious mind when it's most suggestible, such as upon waking or just before sleep. The idea is to introduce new, positive scenarios that replace the bad habit, leveraging the brain's wave states to facilitate change.
🚀 Making Mistakes to Forge New Neural Pathways
This section emphasizes the importance of making mistakes as a means to disrupt old neural pathways and create new ones. It argues that mistakes should be viewed as opportunities to gather data and learn, rather than as failures. The process involves understanding what doesn't work and using that information to rewire the brain to avoid repeating the same behaviors, thus gradually breaking the bad habit.
🌟 Using Emotional Priming for Success
The paragraph explains the role of emotions in controlling habits. It suggests that bad habits are often turned to for comfort during negative emotional states. To counter this, one should use emotional priming to associate good habits with positive emotions. This involves mentally rehearsing the feeling of success after breaking a bad habit, which trains the brain to expect positive emotions and thus makes it easier to follow through with healthier actions.
🧘♂️ Mental Rehearsal for Habit Change
This section talks about the power of mental rehearsal in creating new neural pathways. It likens habits to a series of connected dominoes, suggesting that by mentally rehearsing the action of breaking a habit, one can create a new pathway that disrupts the old pattern. The process requires imagining the entire scenario of overcoming obstacles and resisting excuses, which helps in creating a blueprint for actual behavior change.
🚫 Avoiding Forceful Change Through Negative Information
The paragraph advises against using negative information about a habit's harmful effects as a motivator for change. It points out that focusing on the negative aspects of a habit can lead to feelings of guilt and shame, which may reinforce the habit rather than break it. Instead, the focus should be on the benefits of letting go of the habit, framing the change as a gain rather than a loss to reduce mental energy wasted on self-criticism.
🏋️♀️ Taking Control Over Automatic Reactions
This section discusses the importance of taking control over the body's automatic reactions to break habits. It suggests that habits become automatic to conserve energy, but when they are bad, it's necessary to assert control. Interrupting oneself at unpredictable times can help show the body who's in charge and break the cycle of automatic behavior.
🔄 Using Routines to Rewrite Neural Codes
The paragraph explains how routines can be used to rewire the neural code associated with habits. It states that performing a habit strengthens the neural connections, making the habit harder to break. To counter this, one should identify and break the strongest connection in the routine, often by changing the location where the habit is performed, which disrupts the comfort and familiarity of the habit.
🔍 Finding Emotional Triggers Behind Habits
This section emphasizes the need to identify the emotional triggers behind bad habits to address the underlying emotional needs. It suggests that by understanding the emotion that triggers the habit, one can develop healthier habits to fulfill the same emotional need. The process involves becoming aware of the emotional state before indulging in the habit and then substituting it with a healthier action.
🏃♂️ Shortening Emotional Reactions
The paragraph discusses the concept of the refractory period, which is the duration for which an emotional reaction lasts. It suggests that by shortening this period, one can control how long an emotional reaction influences behavior. The idea is to take lessons from negative experiences and focus on those lessons to reduce the impact of the emotional memory, thus breaking the link between the memory and the bad habit.
🍰 Reprogramming the Brain's Reward System
This section talks about the need to reprogram the brain's reward system to associate good habits with high rewards. It explains that the brain evolved to attach high rewards to behaviors that aid survival, such as consuming calorie-dense food. To break bad habits, one should trick the brain into attaching high rewards to good habits instead, using healthier rewards to reinforce the new behavior.
🤔 Being Curious Instead of Critical
The paragraph advises being curious as a way to break autopilot mode and activate higher thinking centers. It suggests that curiosity can train the brain to be more aware of one's actions and surroundings, which can help in taking control over one's habits. The idea is to be curious about random things, which can lead to a more mindful and aware state of being.
😱 Embracing the Fear of the Unknown
This section discusses the fear of change and how it can hinder the process of breaking habits. It points out that the body resists change because it seeks predictability and safety. To overcome this, one must get used to the feeling of fear and proceed with the change anyway, understanding that the fear is a temporary reaction to the unknown.
🌞 Starting the Day in the Present
The paragraph advises against starting the day with thoughts from the past, as this can lead to reliving past events and emotions. It suggests focusing on the present moment and narrating small, present experiences to minimize the influence of past memories. This practice can help in taking control of one's thoughts and feelings, making it easier to break habits.
🚫 Not Waiting for External Changes to Break Habits
This section warns against the belief that habits will change when external circumstances change. It emphasizes that change must start from within and cannot be deferred to future situations or events. The idea is to make small changes immediately, understanding that habits are influenced more by internal feelings than by external issues.
🧘♀️ Meditation and Mindfulness as Tools for Change
The final paragraph highlights meditation and mindfulness as tools that can facilitate the process of breaking bad habits. It suggests that these practices can help in controlling one's thoughts and impulses, making it easier to break habits. Meditation can develop metacognition, which allows for objective observation of one's thoughts, leading to greater control over one's actions and habits.
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Keywords
💡Habit
💡Rewiring
💡Subconscious Mind
💡Mistakes
💡Emotional Priming
💡Mental Rehearsal
💡Neuroscience
💡Rewire
💡Emotional Triggers
💡Meditation
💡Metacognition
Highlights
90% of people fail to break bad habits due to incorrect methods.
Habits are hardwired into the brain and need to be rewired to be broken.
The subconscious mind is the easiest entry point to hack and change habits.
The optimal time to influence the mind is just before falling asleep or upon waking up.
Mistakes are essential for breaking old neural pathways and creating new ones.
Emotional priming can set you up for success by associating good emotions with new habits.
Mental rehearsal of specific actions helps create new neural pathways.
Avoid forcing change with negative information about your behavior.
Take control over your body's automatic reactions to break bad habits.
Routines can rewire the neural code in your brain to break bad habits.
Identify the emotional triggers behind habits to tackle them effectively.
Shorten your emotional reactions to prevent them from becoming ingrained habits.
Reprogram your brain's reward system to associate high rewards with good habits.
Be curious, not critical, to break the autopilot mode and increase self-awareness.
The fear of the unknown is natural, but you must get used to it to break habits.
Don't start your day in the past; focus on the present to break habitual thought patterns.
Don't wait for external circumstances to change; start breaking habits now.
Meditation and mindfulness can fast-track the process of breaking bad habits.
Transcripts
how many times have you tried to break a
bad habit 90% of people fail when they
first start trying to break their bad
habits and it's because they're trying
to break it in all the wrong ways habits
are hardwired into your brain and they
have to be because you need the space
for learning which means that if you
have a bad habit you have to break it by
rewiring the source code you have to get
into all the little parts of your brain
that created The Habit in the first
place and keep it functioning and how on
Earth can you do all of that well here
you
go number one you actually have to hack
your brain at the right point when you
break into something you're not going to
go for the hardest point right you're
going to go for the weakest part and
then get in that way it's the same with
your mind you keep trying to hack and
trick your normal conscious mind and
it's virtually impossible okay that
shit's kept behind lock key alarms and
guards the easiest way in is through
your subconscious mind and look okay
before you dismiss this as some kind of
woo woo advice hear us out it's really
hard virtually impossible to rewire
anything with your conscious normal
everyday thinking mind there's just too
much going in and you can't get through
all of that noise but there's a moment
when the noise is quiet when it's still
picking up steam and that's when you
have to slip in quietly like a burglar
in the night breaking into your own mind
when you wake up in the morning your
brain moves through different wave
States delta waves which are deep sleep
Theta which is deep relaxation Alpha
light relaxation and then beta which is
very active you want to catch those
waves when it's not as active and more
suggestible so the moment you wake up
and just before you fall asleep sneak in
with some imaginary scenarios where
you've broken the bad habit and you feel
good about it we'll go into some more
details on how to do this in just a
moment but we wanted to get this out of
the way first to make sure you're
entering your mind at the right
Point number two make mistakes because
they break old neural Pathways and build
up new ones mistakes interrupt the
system and cause chaos and this is
exactly what you want when you're trying
to break a bad habit mistakes are your
brain's weapon for creating change if
you've been conditioned to think that
failure means means you're back to
square one well you've misunderstood how
your brain works each time when you make
a mistake as you're trying to break a
habit use that error to gather new data
understand what doesn't work for you the
mistake is fine the problem is when you
don't actually gather information from
it because look then you see the mistake
as a failure and you fall off track
since it feels like there's no coming
back from it but when you gather the
data your brain will rewire itself to
recognize other options for the Habit
you're trying to break the more mistakes
you make the better it becomes at
predicting and avoiding those behaviors
but you must gather that data just like
you would do with any work project what
caused the error what's the most
critical point of intercepting this
error and how can you make sure it
doesn't happen
again number three use emotional priming
to set yourself up for suc success your
emotions are the key to controlling your
habits you keep turning to your bad
habits because they make you feel better
when you experience negative emotions
like stress boredom or anxiety so when
you feel stressed you look for comfort
and since you find comfort in your bad
habits well you'll use that habit to
douse the feeling of stress in a way
your brain has been trained to connect
that Comfort to the habits that are
usually bad because they take less
energy to do and usually give you a
short Rush before a drop so you need to
train your brain to experience good
emotions from good habits instead of
just the bad ones and did you know that
your body and your brain don't actually
know the difference between what's real
and what's imaginary whatever is
happening in your mind it's happening to
you with some emotional priming you
rehearse the feeling you want to get
when you break a bad habit keep
rehearsing this feeling think think
about breaking that habit and think
about the good feelings that will come
with it let's say you want to stop
procrastinating and be more productive
standard goal right we'll take a few
moments each morning to sit quietly and
imagine how you'll feel when you're in
control of your time calm focused
accomplished let those emotions wash
over you as if they're already happening
this trains your brain to expect those
feelings over time it'll begin to
associate new healthier behaviors with
the Positive emotions that you've primed
so it's easier to follow through on the
actions that will get you to your
goals number four mentally rehearse
specific actions for
Success now that you've rehearsed the
emotions you have to rehearse the action
in your brain habits are just neural
Pathways that are connected to each
other it's like dominoes all falling in
the same direction each time because of
the way they've been stacked they're all
connected because they're on the same
pathway now when you mentally rehearse
the action of breaking a habit you take
a different route and that creates new
neural Pathways you're moving The
Dominoes so they all fall a different
way instead rehearsing the action takes
a little bit more practice and energy
than the emotion because well instead of
imagining a feeling you have to imagine
a whole scenario it's like you're
creating a short film in your mind
you'll have to think of all the steps
you have to do do outside obstacles
you'll have to overcome and how to play
Devil's Advocate to the excuses that
you'll inevitably come up with now we
just mentioned before that your brain
and body can't actually tell what's real
and what isn't if it's happening in your
mind it's happening to you okay cool but
what does that even mean so when you
imagine the action you want to do like
breaking a bad habit it's as if you've
already done it and now you have new
neural Pathways that are in your control
you've got a blueprint which makes the
physical changes a whole lot easier to
achieve number five Don't Force change
with information about how bad your
behavior is if the first thing you do
when you're trying to break a bad habit
is to learn everything you can about how
bad it is you're never going to succeed
you already know it's bad okay that is
why you're trying to break it in the
first place you can't think your way out
of a bad habit and you can't shame
yourself out of it either because the
the more you focus on your behavior the
more comfortable you get in that guilt
and shame that comes with it so stop
learning about how bad it is for you
okay it's not helpful you're targeting
the completely wrong thing and you're
not going to make progress that way when
you focus on how bad something is you're
activating guilt shame and anxiety which
actually triggers more stress the very
emotion that reinforces these bad habits
so shift your focus to what you gain by
letting go of the habit it frame the
change as something you are gaining not
something you are losing the less mental
energy you waste on berating yourself
the more you'll have available to build
the Habit that will actually serve you
better number six take the power back
from your body's automatic
reactions when something becomes a habit
you're no longer in charge of it but
that's kind of a good thing it's your
brain's way of saving energy it's a
great tool when you've got good habits
because you won't have to hype yourself
up for them every time you do something
but it's not so great when you've got
bad habits that's when you need to show
who's actually in charge your body
becomes conditioned to respond to
certain triggers it acts before your
conscious mind even has a chance to
catch up so you have to show him who's
boss by interrupting yourself at the
most unpredictable times when you're
sitting comfortably on the sofa watching
TV and you've got this vague thought
about getting up and doing some cleaning
and your body and brain both say no you
have to step in and say yes you are not
the voice in your head okay every time
you find yourself mindlessly doing
something you usually do driving walking
the same route ordering the same food
kick down that door take control and
make a random but powerful
change number seven use routines to
rewire the code in Neuroscience there's
a saying that goes nerve cells that fire
together
wi together so the more you perform a
habit the stronger the actual neural
Connections in your brain become it's
like a code that's written and hardwired
into you you have to go in and rewrite
that code your first step is to find the
strongest Connection in that code and
break it it's basically the middle point
where you think of doing something and
your brain goes into autopilot mode now
usually you'll wake up from that state
once you've performed your sequence but
you have to wake yourself up before that
the most effective way to do this is to
change the place where you perform that
habit it's the quickest and easiest way
to upset the balance and comfort that
you feel from your usual sequence of
actions like if you usually eat in front
of the TV you got to change where you
are and every time you eat you do it at
the dining table even if you're having a
snack if you feel like you're drinking
too much beer or wine in the evenings
when you're sitting on the porch well
take that glass to the store room or
bathroom room and drink it there it
sounds kind of funny and weird but
changing that space and taking the
Comfort away from it will make your
brain wake up and go what the F this is
weird not fun let's do less of this it
sounds stupid simple right but you'll
see just how uncomfortable and weird it
feels when you try to do it yourself and
yes that's partly because youve put
yourself in a strange place but mostly
it's because that place is uncomfortable
and the opposite of what you're looking
for in the
moment number eight find the emotional
triggers behind the habit every bad
habit is fulfilling an emotional need
that you're lacking but what are you
lacking ha that's what you have to find
out right you have to find this out by
first seeing which emotion is triggering
the Habit in the first place is it
stress loneliness boredom or just
wanting some comfort take a step back
and notice what's going on before you
indulge in that habit are you feeling
anxious over
overwhelmed when you know the trigger
you can tackle it directly then you come
up with a healthier but also easier
habit that you can do instead when you
get that feeling like if you're feeling
stressed you do five squats and then
five push-ups instead don't think too
much about the exercise or action here
your goal isn't to become a squatting
Champion it's just to break that
automatic feedback loop of feeling an
emotion and then turning to a habit to
fix it the awareness and then a
deliberate action repeated over time is
enough to karate chop that Loop in half
number nine you can and should shorten
your emotional
reactions when you've got a strong
emotional reaction to something your
entire system shouts at you to pay
attention to what caused it when you pay
attention to the cause you take a
snapshot of it and that becomes a memory
then the neurological moves into the
chemical the snapshot or memory gets
attached to an emotion and when you
remember the snapshot you feel that
emotion too you can control how long you
want that reaction to last this is
called a refractory period it can last
for minutes hours days and years and the
longer it lasts the more it becomes a
part of your personality when you
constantly think and remember this it's
not just creating a habit it's creating
your temperament now controlling the
refractory period can be hard because it
becomes addictive you get a rush of
energy with the memory and so it starts
to feel good so you shorten that
refractory period if something shitty
happens look at it take one or two
lessons away from it and only focus on
those lessons every time that memory
comes up think of the lessons right now
we can bet that you've got a memory from
years ago that you'd like to call up and
get that Rush again even if it makes you
feel bad that memory is attached to some
bad habit if you want to break that
habit you have got to get over that
memory number 10 reprogram your brain's
reward system your most basic Primal
function above all else is to survive
right if your brain sees something that
it thinks is going to help you survive
and reproduce it's going to attach a
high reward to it the higher the reward
the stronger the habit for that reward
is for most people the highest reward is
calorie dense food Foods why well
because more calories equals better
chances of survival it's an old far
outdated system that we don't need in
today's world but these Primal functions
haven't caught up yet so you have to
trick your brain with high rewards for
good habits not bad ones when you don't
perform your usual bad habit give
yourself a reward but obviously make
sure it's something healthier otherwise
it kind of defeats the purpose think
about the things that give you smaller
doses of dopamine over for a longer time
don't compare the rewards side by side
because when you weigh things up like
going for a walk reading a few pages of
your book or listening to a podcast
against scrolling social media binge
watching shows or procrastinating well
you can clearly see what's easier and
what takes less energy so don't even
think of them that way you have your
list of rewards and that's it every time
you don't do the Habit you choose a
reward from your list you don't let your
brain and body choose from whatever list
they've been leaning on because well
that is clearly not working
here number 11 be curious not critical
they say that to break the autopilot
mode you're running on you have to pay
attention but paying attention can be so
hard you have to focus on what you're
doing what you're thinking what you're
feeling all the time it's so easy to
forget to pay attention even when you're
feeling free easy and good so a little
hack for this is to be curious about
your surroundings because curiosity is
one of your brain's superpowers it
breaks autopilot mode and forces you to
activate its higher thinking centers so
get curious about the most random things
and you'll slowly train yourself to be
more aware of what you're doing like
look at a plant but really look at it go
close to it pick up a leaf look at the
lines on that leaf look at the bugs on
the plant maybe it's kind of gross but
whatever you might look silly to
everyone else but your curiosity trains
your brain to take charge of your body
instead of just allowing it to be an
autopilot you're still breaking that
autopilot mode but in a way more fun and
roundabout kind of
way number 12 the unknown will still be
scary because listen Okay your body is
deathly afraid of changing its routine
it'll fight you tooth and nail when you
try to make a change because it doesn't
know what's coming next it's like when
you have to take your pet to the vet
when they're sick you know that you're
helping them but to your pet well they
think it's more like torture they have
no idea what you're up to that's your
body and brain when you're breaking a
habit it's freaking out it's scared it
doesn't feel good even thinking about
doing it right now doesn't feel good so
your body will influence your brain to
do it tomorrow instead you have to get
used to this feeling though it's not
because Breaking the Habit is truly
uncomfortable though those emotions
you're experiencing are fake they're
produced by your body to keep you in a
more predictable and safe state to your
body the unknown is way worse than the
guilt and suffering you feel from The
Habit that's why it's so hard to just
get started and then once you do it
you're like oh that wasn't so bad and
when you try to do it again it's hard
again but not as hard as it was the
first time that's your body putting up
its defenses and slowly learning that
unpredictability isn't so terrible and
also it's not in charge anymore so it's
putting up a fight that it actually
cannot win eventually your body will get
the message that it should be sitting in
the back seat But first you have to get
used to feeling afraid of the change and
just doing it
anyway number 13 you have to stop
starting your day in the past every
morning when you wake up and you have a
thought 99% of you are starting your day
in the past that thought is connected to
a memory and that memory is connected to
a feeling and so when you think about
that and you remember and feel it you're
literally reliving that event all over
again and you're doing it the moment you
wake up it's crazy okay you can minimize
this incredibly powerful force just by
focusing on what you're doing right now
and making yourself sound like a toddler
who's just discovering the world oh hey
I'm waking up there's my feet touching
the floor and as you narrate these small
present moments in your mind you can be
begin to add some future stories in
there too like I've got a meeting today
about the state of customer service I've
prepared everything so let's just get to
it hey lxer we know this sounds childish
and at times Well way too simple but
your complicated brain is actually
controlled by pretty simple motives and
yet you know it's actually because these
motives are so simple and easy to ignore
that we even struggle to take that
control at
all number 14 don't wait for something
out there to change
Joe dispenza an author and expert in
Mind Body Connection he says that one of
the most dangerous lies that people tell
themselves is that they'll change when
something else changes so they'll break
a habit when some other situation that
is causing them to stress out ends the
end of that situation is not going to
change your habits though in fact it
makes it harder because you're delaying
that change and the more you perform the
Habit the harder it is to break you're
also still going to experience stress
even if it's in a aler form your body
isn't going through the motions because
of that external issue it's doing it
because of an internal feeling and
you're going to have that feeling for
most of your life to different degrees
you absolutely cannot wait for someone
else for another situation for another
day it has to start now okay even with
the smallest change and number 15
meditation and mindfulness will Fast
Track everything you'll notice that so
many of these hacks need you to go into
your mind and intentionally change
what's happening in there many of them
are tools in meditation and mindfulness
you don't have to practice them to use
these hacks but if you do it will help a
lot with these hacks unlike with
traditional meditation you're not
sitting in silence for ages watching
your thoughts go by you are actively
creating new thoughts and situations so
it's a little bit more entertaining for
sure but having the control over your
mind that meditation brings can make the
process easier then instead of waiting
for the morning or evening to get into
your subconscious mind you can put
yourself into that state whenever you
want add in some experiences and
thoughts and then come out of it again
meditation also helps you to develop
metacognition your ability to think
about your own thinking with
metacognition you can look at your
impulses objectively instead of
following them blindly so it becomes
much easier to break a bad habit so it
becomes much easier to break a bad habit
and the more you practice it the more
control you give yourself so your entire
personality doesn't lie in the hands of
your kind of lazy brain and body and Al
alexir that's a wrap on this one today
tell us what's your favorite Jedi mind
trick for breaking your bad habits we
always love hearing from you in the
comments we'll see you back here next
time my friend until then take care
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