Habits, we all have them.
We have good habits, and we all have bad habits.
Habits are great, but only if they are there to serve us and not us serve them.
These habits lead to us going into automatic pilot for many of our day-to-day choices. This can be very beneficial as we are able to focus on other things that require more thought. Habits are great when they are what is helpful to us now.
However, at times, these habits can be less than helpful. We become entrenched in patterns of behaviour that are no longer useful or beneficial to us.
Once something becomes an automatic habit, they become harder to change, because just like a muscle the neuro pathways that are established become stronger and faster in our brains.
They can also cause issues because when we are faced with change, our brain may see it as an attack of some kind. This means we are often afraid to do anything different or get frustrated when we do have to change. We see this all the time, teens sitting in the same seat in a classroom, choosing the same supermarket to shop at because you know where everything is (we have all had that annoyance when they change things around in the shop), driving the same route even when you know there is a quicker route home and so on. These habits can prevent us from living our best life, we subconsciously sabotage ourselves to avoid any type of change. When we can’t change it is because we are working in the original primitive part of our brains.
In order to create new habits, the old habits, or templates as we call them in SFH need to be broken down and replaced with the new patterns of behaviour we are trying to establish. Note = you can’t just get rid of templates, they have to be replaced.
We can only change these when we are working in the intellectual part of our brain (the prefrontal cortex). In SFH we give you the tools to be able to breakdown old templates and then build new ones. This leads to you feeling more in control and you can create those new habits that are beneficial for you.
Maybe it’s worth a look to see if you are in control of your habits or if your habits are in control of you.
Change your habits = change your life.