Understanding Habit Formation and Transformation
How do habits get formed ? It is important to understand the complete process of habit formation. It is impossible to change something that has been practiced for so long (possibly even in the previous births) without fully understanding the root cause. Thoughts are the seeds from which the habits stem out. Habit cannot change till the seed (thought) that sprouted the habit is changed. The deep habit developed because it was used many times. We are trapped in a vicious cycle of thoughts, actions, personality traits, and that drives us again to the same kind of thought. Changing only the action and not the seed (thought) Sometimes change at the action level also helps in reducing the intensity of the habit. For example if we have the habit of eating dessert after the meal and now we want to give up due to being overweight. Then thoughts to eat a dessert might keep arising in us, but we can atleast control it at the action level by not bringing dessert at home or keeping ourse