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1.5 How do to get rid of bad habits
To start to change, we must first recognize that the pain we inflict our bad habits, much worse than the pain that inevitably accompanies the disposal of them. The next step - to understand that now is the time to start getting rid of bad habits and create good. Indecision weakens our will, there are doubts that the desired change is possible.
A few steps to get rid of bad habits:
• Self-analysis. Make a list of bad habits, you want to get rid of. Write down the habits that you want to attain. How can you write more about why you want to get rid of certain habits, and what you want to work out more. It is much easier to act when you clearly know for what these actions.
Substitute a Good Habit. Giving up a bad habit shouldn’t be unpleasant, but it is when we feel like we’re denying ourselves. We need to fill the void in our daily routine with something that isn’t as harmful, and we also need to reward ourselves to maintain our motivation.
Suppose you want to stop drinking. It’s tough because you miss the excitement of going out and interacting with other people. Fortunately, there are other ways to fulfill these desires that aren’t as destructive or expensive.
Instead of going out at night, try getting out during the day. Get up early and do something you enjoy. Take a walk around the neighborhood or hang out in a coffee shop for a couple hours. When Friday and Saturday night come around, you won’t feel as restless and the urge to go out drinking will be easier to resist.
If you can replace a bad habit with a positive, enjoyable habit, the change is much more likely to stick. Once you are able to feel satisfied without harming yourself, you’ll wonder how that old bad habit seemed so enjoyable.
• Avoid having to do with bad habits. People, places, actions, and your own thoughts can stop you to get rid of bad habits. For instance, if you want to quit, try to stay away from people with whom you used to go for a smoke and places where you like to sit with a cigarette and blow smoke into space. Constantly thinking about something else - about the project, are working on, how are sports you can enjoy now that you will not interfere with dyspnea smoker, and so on. The less attention you pay to a bad habit, the weaker it becomes.
• Affirmations and will. In your mind have the power to expel any habit. Thoughts have energy that affects our lives, so my thoughts should be handled carefully. Regularly repeat affirmations to yourself, that should make your will operate at full capacity and in your favor. "I will succeed." "Nothing can stop me." "No matter how many times I ostuplyus - I still go up, and will fight on." And so on. You are free to think for yourself affirmations. It's not just words. With constant repetition, they become part of our consciousness, our personality, and manifest in our behavior.
So, let’s try to draw conclusions:
1. You can not try to break the habit just will power. Overcoming should be gradual.
2. Determine the typical situations that trigger the habit and try to protect themselves from these situations at the time.
3. Before you deal with a bad habit, you need to figure out how you can form a good habit instead.
4. Identify the pleasure obtained from the habit and come up with activities that would be replaced by the pleasure.
5. Recall situations in which learning took place this habit, what a pleasure it was supported by then.
6. To separate from the external habit "feed" pleasant circumstances.
7. Enlist the support of friends and the time to protect themselves from contact with those who provoke habit.
This is a general guidelines that should be applied to your specific situation.
Struggle with bad habits is definitely hard, but if you are serious about the fight, examine the existing experience, expert advice, you can get rid of them by anyone. Need to develop a positive habit. It is in this way we can achieve success. Struggle with yourself is not easy. No wonder many people believe that to overcome the habit of alcohol and smoking in their life was the first and most powerful test of will. The most difficult thing is to be able to overcome the temptation alone. That's where the really man and knows himself, experiences and tempers will, develops self-discipline, improve self-organization. Only changing individual lifestyles helps get rid of many bad habits and learn new, useful, those that will help to ensure a healthy life.
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