How Can You Get Rid Of Bad Habits? 3 Methods To Eliminate Bad Habits Easily

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get rid of bad habits

You’ve been suffering because of that one “bad” habit that keeps ruining your life and your best intentions to change!

You’ve tried breaking it many times to no avail.

You force yourself and challenge yourself, but nothing is working, you still do it

I know how frustrating that is, that’s why this article exists to help us both change and

break that stubborn habit(S) 

What’ll learn:

• 3 methods to get rid of any bad habit for each you’ll learn
•  The science behind these methods to eliminate bad habits easily, how to apply each method to get the results 

let’s get started!!

3 methods to get rid of bad habits

how can you get rid of bad habits?

1-associate pain with making the bad habit

Establish some kind of punishment when you make the habit

Here are a few ways how to do it

1-you could punish yourself with a rubber band every time you pick up your phone

2- you could Tick mark on a piece of paper based on” what gets measured is what gets managed” 

And you’re supposed to look at it at the end of the day and say

oh, my goddess !! I can’t believe I spent 3h hours or did it 46 times

Note: Notifications or REMINDERS of any TYPE aren’t good ways to stop a bad habit

it’s only effective for the immediate period of using those notifications that also go for sticky notes 

Monetary penalties are effective but they won’t work because forget to do them 

The science here:

In order to break synapses or neural connections that engage a habit that you don’t want we need them to engage in the process called 

Long-term depression which is involves firing different neurons of the circuits at different times to break the synchrony

2-align your body and mind with foundational practices

that will raise your level of awareness Of the situation and how you feel inside 

Such as: 

Stress reduction, getting good sleep, quality nutrition, and

positive routines arranged throughout the day

the science here:

you’ll know how important each one of these foundational practices is for health in general and now for breaking bad habits 

how to do it:

start optimizing them or getting them on a good level gradually

I have two articles that will help you with stress and creating routines that help you

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3–post-bad habit make a positive habit

this is About making a positive habit you want immediately after doing the bad habit

You create a double habit that starts with the bad behavior and ends up with the good habit

How to do it?

1-choose a bad habit you want to break

2-choose a positive but easy-to-execute habit

for example: If you want to break the habit of scrolling on your phone

so, everything you do and immediately as you become aware replace it with a positive habit like reading

And if that didn’t work do it right after even if you’re doing the habit for a little bit  

The science here:

in doing this will start to link in time the execution of bad behavior with the good behavior in doing that

you start to recruit other neurons/neurocircuits that can start to somewhat dismantle

The sequence of firing that is associated with the bad behavior 

That creates enough temporal mismatch so that you can recognize

when you  are heading toward a bad habit becomes more apparent to you 

Creating a temporal mismatch in the closed loop of the bad behavior will change

features in the loop and disrupt its closed loop

thus, Changing the nature of the neurocircuits that are firing

so, you can write the script for that bad habit ie. Remap the neuron circuits

That will result in the removal of  the need to have constant conscious awareness of

one’s own behavior before that behavior which is difficult 

You’ll notice that the initiation of the bad habit will take a new form or you are not even inspired to do it at all

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Now, is your time to take action and eliminate bad habits easily.

remember any effort you put in will be worth it when you finally break free from it

so, put in the effort and commit until that happens 

Comment, what habit you want to break to make it a declaration and commitment 

to your success

wafaa

reference

Huberman lab podcast episode 53