Train Your Brain

The Mind Unleashed website listed 10 ways to train your brain to let go of habits by creating new neural pathways.  Here are a few of them:

Identify the habit you’d like to transform and set the intention.  If there is this high intention, then creating new pathways in your brain is bound to happen.

Shift your focus.  To create a new neural pathway, you take the focus off the old habit, and then that old habit eventually falls away.

Use your imagination.  Just imagine the new behaviors over and over and over. Keep repeating that in your mind, so you build new pathways.

Interrupt your thoughts and patterns when they arise.  Say “no” or “cancel” when an old thought or impulse comes in, and say, “I don’t have to do that anymore.”

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