Now the question arises how to do so . How
to make your brain spend less energy and form a habit .
Back in the days of childhood when you were
learning from your environment everything was new to you . You learned walking
, eating , brushing the teeths , waking early and what not . All these things
took time and efforts. There is a first day of every habit like swimming,
cycling, dancing etc. , and in the initial days you want to quit these
activities because it take efforts and brain does not like to put soo much
effort. With consistency and hard work activities one day becomes your habit.
So here are the top 4 ways which will help
you to form healthy habits . And yes healthy habits do take time and efforts to
develop .
Number 1 is BABY STEPS
" Nothing is particularly hard if you
divide it into small steps. " I am sure you would have heard of this quote
somewhere and this is what exactly takes in the initial stages of forming a
habit . Lets take an example , suppose you want to wake up early . You want to
make a habit of waking up at 6 but you usually wake up at 8 or maybe 9 . So in
order to wake up at 6 do not give your body a shock treatment by waking
up at 6 directly from 9 . I am sure you will be determined on your first day
Second or maybe third also but eventually you will get back to your habit of
waking up at 9 because that's what your brain is habitual of . Take BABY STEPS
. Put your alarm for 8:50 and try to wake up everyday just 10 minutes earlier
from your usual waking time. Do this for at least 10-15 days . Then at 8:40 and
then again 10 mins earlier . This way your brain will slowly adapt itself and
it won't be that difficult .
Number 2 is CONSISTENCY
Second thing about healthy habits is
CONSISTENCY not necessarily intensity. What I mean by this is that you have to
be consistent in doing that activity to make it a habit . Be consistent not
intensive. Suppose you want to lose wait and you join gym for that so you must
go to the gym regularly. It should not be like this that on your day one
you do pushups crunches running dumbells and everything and then the next
day you take a leave. So Maintain that consistent. Do exercise just for
10 mins but do regularly .
Number 3 is MOTIVATION
Too much motivation can be poisnous . So
you must have clarity that if you are forming any habit then you have to go
through this pain . You have to put efforts. And just because you don't
feel like doing it you start motivating yourself. You force your brain to
watch such things so that you can adapt them . But the brain loves to spend
least amount of energy in doing any work . So don't rely on too much motivation
.
Number 4 is DISTRACTIONS
It is so true that when you try something
new and you put efforts in it you get distracted easily from time to time . So
in that case what you need to do is not to fight with distractions instead get
rid of them immediately . Let us suppose that you want to form a habit of
eating good & healthy food so you will be distracted by the thought of
ordering a pizza instead eating those green vegetables. So what you need to do
is kill that thought immediately by filling yourself with ghr ka khana . And
once your tummy is full that thought of ordering a pizza won't bother you
anymore . But if you try to think about pizza again and again then at the end
you will find yourself ordering it. You have to kill the first thought of pizza
that comes in.
Now doing all these things take time . So
be patient . You will see the results yourself.
Don't set goals or targets set habits !
Happy learning 😊
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