Bad Habits: How Some Routines Undermine Our Better Selves

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Here are 4 justifications that people use when they're clinging to behaviors that harm more than they help

and steps . Important also is the development of new plans for satisfying behavior and of finding supportive friends.techniques to contemplate the sensory and environmental impacts of the habit. Asking his subjects to contemplate the smells, tastes, and other sensations of cigarette smoking, he achieved some reductions in their commitment to this habit.

In this post, I advocate a related approach, which is to ask people to become mindful of both the behavior-settings in which their bad habits occur and the rationales for their behavior that these settings provide. Routines—both bad and good—are very much connected to our visions of self and the fundamental behaviors we employ to reinforce those visions. Those behaviors are ritual, work, play, and communion.

At some point, some of our preferences become idiosyncrasies, things about us we consider “signature” or even “unique” qualities. Most people I know have “quirks” that they are happy to announce. Some avoid a wide range of foods; others must sit in a certain spot when dining out. Everyone, it seems, has their favorite restaurant, clothing brand, entertainment source, and automobile.

Most of us are proud of our consumption style, but this becomes problematic when it means resisting, or denigrating, the choices of others. Pity the poor host or traveling companion who must cater to these whims. Bad rituals are those that are just empty forms, which do not promote the growth of persons but merely codify them. Being older myself, I can report that these rigidities do not soften with age. Young and old alike must guard against their self-centered habits becoming the characteristics they are known for.Because we need to provide for ourselves and the people we love, we work. Many of those tasks are arduous, time-consuming, and repetitive.

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