Good Mental Habits: This Is Exactly What Happens With The Neural Pathways That Make Our Habits Well Habits

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This might mean developing a little of inner dialogue that contradicts our reflexive thinking, or falling back on the evidence gathering motif to serve as a foil for establishing whether our perceptions have any real bearing in reality.

Whenever taking us off the beaten path and into that neighboring field, that said, this essentially involves making a plan that interrupts our conventional thought process and ensuing patterns of behavior. Oftentimes we are also provided with an invitation to change, when confronted with either circumstance.

When human beings become human doings our thinking and behavior is informed more by structure and ritual than randomness, that sort of statement isn’t intended to minimize our complexity.

We are essentially a collection of habits.

At times we can find these patterns to be somewhat unproductive and, at others, wholly destructive. We can take an ideal, hard, honest look at what’s going on, rather than falling into the reflexive defensiveness that keeps us stuck, with the ego out of play. Whenever providing us with the opportunity to redirect our thinking from I will cannot I shall not fail, that transparency is transformative. Remember, whenever engaging what neuroscientists call neuroplasticity, that said, this shift in focus is central to rewiring the pathways in the brain. Accordingly the witness allows us to see that I’m bad with deadlines is really a dodge for I procrastinate being that I’m afraid I will fail. Also, witness consciousness is a means for getting us out of our own way. In essence this means making a habit out of unmaking our habits.

Whatever tactic we use, amidst the most important elements involved in changing mental habits is rehearsal. By establishing alternatives to our conventional thinking and sticking with them, that neighboring field becomes the new path by which we find our way back to ourselves and a basic nature uncluttered by false expectations and distorted selfperception. By shifting our focus and maintaining that shift, we create a tally new habit, essentially rewiring our brain and effecting change. Certainly, almost any time the cart passes over the path, the tracks get deeper and deeper. Think of our habits of thought and behavior like carts on a path. Eventually a brand new path gets established and the old one gets overgrown, if we decide to turn off the path and cross the neighboring field. So it is exactly what happens with the neural pathways that make our habits, well habits.