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How to break bad habits

by Gary Zalben

Created on: July 29, 2008

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You can compare repetitious habits with the groves on a phonograph record that have recorded your habits with the needle of your subconscious mind playing them over and over. You can change your bad habits or get rid of them because they are your own thoughts being repeated by you. You brought them into existence and you can destroy them and smash them to smithereens with your will power.

In our fast paced society, the "I want it now or my money back" attitude has obsessed the consumer. Humanity nowadays reads no more than ten pages of a book mostly because they do not want to go through the necessary steps required to improve. That is plain laziness in our high speed society.

Habits shape your future success. When you make a habit you are burning a groove like on a recordable CD in the computer of your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind believes a repetitive thought is a habit that it cannot remove or get away from. If you keep repeating the same action over and over it gives power to that new habit and it will burn a habit groove in your subconscious mind. The computer of the mind will play those CD'S of habits time after time just like if you are pressing the repeat button on a CD player. And your own body acts in response to those habits with obsession and compulsion without your permission. "Habit enemies" can force you against your will to act against your right behavior.

Habits can be formed like dough in a mold. When the dough is wet and soft it is pliable like your mind. When the dough is heated in the mold, it is set and becomes solid so as with your habits being firmly set with the repetitions of your thoughts. Refuse to feed bad habits by starving them the nourishment of additional wrong actions and with the help of visualization and repeating new good habits over and over, it will add fuel to your willpower, hence your success is assured in the amount of your new found strength.

Remember environment is stronger than willpower but your will power ought to be stronger to succeed in any endeavor. If you think you lack willpower, the way to develop it is by determination. "I won't do this" or "I will do this." Focus your will power on these simple but powerful thoughts daily. Now, I will explain to you the degrees and how willpower works and why it is so important to know how to use it properly to develop good habits. The principle of polarity explains that the difference between things seemingly diametrically

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