Your Habits Are Holding You Back
Life sucks. Or, it can be challenging and wonderful. Where is your spotlight? What are putting your focus and attention on? We choose our realities. What is reality to me is different from what is reality to you. Realities are subjective and we choose them. Whether we are consciously choosing them or not is the question. How then do we get started with choosing what we want?
Few things in life are as simple as some people make them out to be. Changing our mindsets and resetting how we think is one of those things. But it is more than possible. I know because I have done it.
How we think is a habit. How we frame things is a habit. Managing our perceptions and how we put things into context is a habit. Habits of thought are as real and common as all of our other habits both good and bad. Just like we have bad habits of action and behavior we wish to rid ourselves of, we have bad habits of thought which work to limit us more than to propel us.
Neural plasticity is the brain's ability to physically change in response to how we think. Athletes have been using the practice of visualization for many years, classical musicians practice playing their music in their minds away from their instruments, and meditation changes brain waves and patterns to actively change our habits of thought.
We can change our habits of thought in the all of the aforementioned ways and we can change how we think by changing our behavior. How we think impacts our behavior but our behavior also impacts how we think. Actively being kind and loving produces a feeling of wellness that helps with anxiety and depression. Over time this practice can become a new habit of not only action, but of thought. We generally avoid those things we fear unless we have been conditioned to do otherwise. Excitement and fear feel the same in the body but it is how we think that determines whether we run away from or towards something. Fear will seldom bring us what we want. Practicing to step into that tension conditions us to that fear and ultimately helps us to reframe the situation.
For most of my adult life I have let fear have more power than it should in my life in determining paths I have mindlessly taken missing out on experiences for growth and to learn from. It hasn't been an easy journey but one well worth the experience. As the saying goes, "Everything we want lays on the other side of fear." Work on your new habits of thought.
#elliotyi
#paradigmleft
#habits
#mindset
Few things in life are as simple as some people make them out to be. Changing our mindsets and resetting how we think is one of those things. But it is more than possible. I know because I have done it.
How we think is a habit. How we frame things is a habit. Managing our perceptions and how we put things into context is a habit. Habits of thought are as real and common as all of our other habits both good and bad. Just like we have bad habits of action and behavior we wish to rid ourselves of, we have bad habits of thought which work to limit us more than to propel us.
Neural plasticity is the brain's ability to physically change in response to how we think. Athletes have been using the practice of visualization for many years, classical musicians practice playing their music in their minds away from their instruments, and meditation changes brain waves and patterns to actively change our habits of thought.
We can change our habits of thought in the all of the aforementioned ways and we can change how we think by changing our behavior. How we think impacts our behavior but our behavior also impacts how we think. Actively being kind and loving produces a feeling of wellness that helps with anxiety and depression. Over time this practice can become a new habit of not only action, but of thought. We generally avoid those things we fear unless we have been conditioned to do otherwise. Excitement and fear feel the same in the body but it is how we think that determines whether we run away from or towards something. Fear will seldom bring us what we want. Practicing to step into that tension conditions us to that fear and ultimately helps us to reframe the situation.
For most of my adult life I have let fear have more power than it should in my life in determining paths I have mindlessly taken missing out on experiences for growth and to learn from. It hasn't been an easy journey but one well worth the experience. As the saying goes, "Everything we want lays on the other side of fear." Work on your new habits of thought.
#elliotyi
#paradigmleft
#habits
#mindset
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