Breaking Bad Habits part 3

Habits and addictions can be broken it starts with awareness you have an addiction or bad habit that needs to be broken. The next step is making a decision you want to be free. Creates new healthy habit in exchange for the bad habits and creates new mindset. Begin to see yourself free. I always advises to seek your physician and medical help. Here’s some resources that may be able to help you with your life style change.

Causes of Mindset Addicted Behavior

 A mindset is engraved thoughts, ideas, belief, teachings, and traits, in the mind which you believe is truth.

Webster Dictionary defines mindset as “a particular way of thinking: a person's attitude or set of opinions about something.”

:  A mental attitude or inclination

:  A fixed state of mind

Free Dictionary defined it as “A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations.”

.  An inclination or a habit. A habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations.

Robert Sternberg, author of Successful Intelligence says a mindset is “Mindsets are beliefs—beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities. Think about your intelligence, your talents, and your personality. Are these qualities simply fixed traits, carved in stone and that’s that? Or are they things you can cultivate throughout your life?”

A mindset is a way of thinking or a set belief how you handle life, circumstance and make decisions.  You have been trained to face problems positive or negative. It’s a mindset that been established in your early childhood development from association, (people), environment (home, school, neighborhood, city and culture) and teaching (religious, racism, relationship, marriage and etc.). Your mind has been shaped and wired to make decisions based on the blue print in your mind. Learned behavior has taught you to copy and duplicate the examples that was demonstrated to you as a child. It may be in a healthy way or unhealthy. Carol Dweck, professor of Psychology at Stanford University under a subtitle What is Mindset states “A mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations.”

You can change your life by changing the blue print in your mind and it all start with words. Words create a mental picture in your mind which becomes and image. Image than rewires the brain to start working to bring that image to pass.     

  Resources for drugs and alcohol abuse:

Alcoholics Anonymous attend AA meeting you can contact them or find a local AA meeting website http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/index or by phone at (212) 870-3400.

National 1-800 Crisis Hotlines – 24 Hour Alcohol & Drug ...contact information website www.allaboutcounseling.com/crisis_hotlines.htm phone 1-877-564-7435.

Find a local detox, drugs and alcohol center there are one near you.

Support Groups

Join a local church that will support you in your change.

Surround yourself with family and friends that will support you in your change and hold you accountable.

Seek a mentor or life coach that will help you through the process.                                   

Breaking Bad Habits part 2

Addictive behaviors are habits that have become second nature. You go about your daily routine without giving these behaviors a second thought. If you have become obsessive with alcohol, sex, drugs, food, or any device you feel like you have to have every day to cope with life pressures it’s an addictive behavior.

In an article by Elizabeth Hartney, PhD The Difference Between an Addiction and a Compulsion “Addiction is a broad term, which is used to describe an entire process by which people (or animals) become dependent on a particular substance or behavior in order to cope with life. This dependence becomes so important to the individual that they will persist in using the substance, or engaging in the behavior, even when it is harmful to themself, their family, and other important areas of their life.”

Many people feed their addictions by focusing on past hurts and traumatic experiences. Experiences like; rape, a loss of a child or loved one, cheating spouse, abuse and molestation, loss of income or position, bad relationships, lack of a father or mother, all these can have a great emotional and psychological effect. Addiction has become a way to mask the pain. They have mental pictures of these terrible bad experiences in their mind. They have a mental record player playing in their mind and they keep hearing it over and over. The thoughts are as painful as the past event.

Hartney also states, “In contrast, compulsion is a quite narrow term, which is used to describe the intense urge to do something. Compulsions are a small but important part of the addictive process, and are also a major part of obsessive-compulsive disorder.”

When you are addicted to substances your body becomes depended on it. It craves for it. You are controlled by it. Addictions start by thoughts than become compulsive urges. You have a strong desire for alcohol or drugs. Many addictions start out as having fun, peer pressure or trying to cope.

Learned behaviors, generational curses and personality pathologies are terms used to define how some behaviors are passed down from generations. From Wikipedia, “Personality pathology refers to enduring patterns of cognition, emotion, and behavior that negatively affect a person's adaptation. In psychiatry and clinical psychology, it is characterized by adaptive inflexibility, vicious cycles of maladaptive behavior, and emotional instability under stress.” Generational curse is a biblical term which means behaviors and spiritual sins are passed down from one generation to the next. Learned behaviors are learning and modeling the behavior of your parents, siblings, or someone in your early childhood development. Behaviors good or bad can be learned and copied.

You can break the cycle of bad habits and addictions. In part 3 of breaking bad habits I will share with you some tips to help you get free.

Breaking Bad Habits

Good Positive Habits

Create new good positive habits to eliminate the bad habits. Habits are caused by a way of thinking which have created a pattern or blue-print in your mind. That pattern has governed the way you make decisions. A habit is a continuous act that you do over and over again. Now that habit is the driving force in your life and if you wish to break free from bad habits you have to create positive habits. For example, if you focus on eating healthy and exercising it will start a life style change and as you continue this new way of thinking it will replace the old habits. How do you break addictions? By changing the thought patterns in your mind you can change any part of your life. Retrain. Renew. Rethink. You can be transformed by changing the way you think. Change your thinking and change your life.

 

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