WE all have some guilty pleasures or habits in life that we really want change or delete but It doesn’t seems so easy as it sounds

It can be of eating, drinking, smoking or staying with negative people.

And There is a tomorrow that we all have that never comes when we will actually start working on changing these habits.

And I am not saying that I have always been so pro in this, I also have been through this cycle

Where I also used to think or fool myself that I can drop this habit anytime. But in reality the only things that used to get dropped is the idea to try drop my habit.

Ok I think it is a lot of criticism for now let’s jump to the topic

before I get into the process I wanna you to know we can never delete a habit just like that from our life, It took a large amount of time for your brain to build up this habit. once we learn it then it is there in our nervous system .

Now your head must be popping up with some questions

and the answer to all the questions is one that we don’t need to delete it from inside. We just need to change it .

And I haven’t discovered this solution it is from a book that was written after a careful study and research

So we just don’t directly jump into doing something

But there is a 3 step procedure we or our brain follow to complete any task.

We start from cue then routine and then reward

So to start anything activity we need a cue and then we do the routine we have set to receive the reward after completing the task

let me give you a very basic example for this let say we eating food - we start from feeling hungry which is the cue here and then we eat food the routine and satisfaction we receive after that is the reward

But how can we stop this cycle ?

Changing the routine that’s where we need to work and we call it Habit reversal therapy

We need to find the craving that is driving our behaviour and what reward we receive after the routine

And change your routine according to them

Let’s say you have a habit of smoking so

If you want to stop smoking ,ask yourself, do you do it because you love nicotine or because it provides a burst of stimulation or structure to your day or a way to socialise ?

And if because of the stimulation then replace the routine with

a quick sets of pushups or Stretch

Find another routine that can provide king of similar rewards. And replace it with the current

But remember this therapy can help you to change your habit but you have to be disciplined and consistent with the new routine.