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Understanding Habit Formation and Transformation

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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
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Spiritual Bleach for Cleansing the Habit of “Procrastination”

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People who value time and spend it in a meaningful and constructive manner automatically become valuable. Indeed such folks realize that their reputation and honor is intact if their every thought, word, and act is valuable. The awareness of maintaining their pure self pride enables them to use their every second in a wise and useful manner. They realize that their net worth in the form of self esteem and regard from society increases by prioritizing tasks accurately. Why would we want to postpone a task that will benefit many, is critical because of its impact, or is self’s deep passion? Indeed it is not realizing the importance of self and time. Why do we procrastinate and how do we overcome it? Ignorance and/or carelessness: Can our net worth increase if we waste time on activities that are not helping us grow? It is understandable that sometimes breaks are needed to relax and rejuvenate. It is important to check if those breaks are really giving us momentary relaxation or
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Spiritual Bleach for Cleansing the Habit of “Holding on to Hurt”

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Wouldn’t a feeling of a slight distress arise if we had to hold a glass for a whole day? It would become a tiring ordeal and loss of power for the body if we had to hold something heavy for a whole day. Anything related to physical matters is very loud and clear to us. Hence we put down the glass or the heavy object after some time because we can clearly experience the discomfort of the action. Do we also clearly see the discomfort and loss in power we experience because of holding on to a hurt or an emotional pain? Or do we carry the burdens of past hurts for ages? Many of us egotistically say, ‘I will never see that person’s face and forgive them as they hurt me deeply’. Physically we might have moved away from this person, but have we let go of them from our mind too? Or day in and day out we are recreating the hurt and waiting for them to apologize? If we find out that today is the last day of our life, would we still not want to let go of this hurt and hold grudges against peopl
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