It's a lot easier for me to start good behaviors in a new environment, f.e. starting sports on vacation, or starting good habits around the household after I moved into a new house.
Yes. Whatever old habit you are trying to break ended up being a habit for a reason, i.e. it fit well with the rest of your habits, schedules, etc. Since I moved cities for instance I have been drinking out a bit too often. The real problem however is that there is a local pub on my way home and pretty much nothing else, so when I come home tired it's the only obvious alternative to going home and sitting alone on my couch. If I wanted to meet with friends elsewhere or do something different after work, I would have to go well out of my way to do so. Environment is much more important than people realize.
Oh, I accidentally started doing this! In december I wanted to drink with family and friends with events (Christmas and such), but not too much. I decided to stop drinking during the week, and stop eating junk food (aka chips and choclates) at the same time. First step was to stop buying it. With the sweets I promised myself I first had to finish whatever I had in the house, before I bough new things. For the beer, I also bought soda instead of alcohol, because I knew I wanted to drink something during dinner. The interesting thing was that I missed it for one day, and then didn't missed it at all. Slowly I also stopped drinking soda, I now trained myself to associate tea with comfort, so whenever I want to drink or eat something to comfort myself, I make a cup of tea. Another thing was that I started doing this before new year. It's still a resolution, mostly to keep doing this. I think one of the problems is that people associate it with one time of the year, "now I have to", instead of routinely changing their habits. Also goal oriented doesn't always help, because a lot of people stop when they reached their goal. I also want to start exercising, which is harder, because I have nothing to substitute it for. I have to start, if I want to or not.
This is exactly what I did to quit my bad habits such as smoking and eating terrible food, I now have a lot of videos on my channel about this same topic surrounding fitness and healthy choices - understanding my brain was the key to my fitness journey success :)
I feel as if being away from my toxic household pushed me further in trying to develop better habits despite failing numeral times. I can now get up and exercise as if it’s nothing but still need a lot of work in terms of being social and eating healthy
So what about quitting one small habit cold turkey? Would that “starve” the neural connections and cause them to disconnect/go out of use faster? How does this work biologically? For instance, would quitting nighttime snacking cold turkey vs incrementally have a better chance at succeeding at long term habit change?
I searched for this because of feeling sad because it is my day one of skipping the sugary coffee mix that I like. I believe it is bad for my health esp if I'd have it each day.
So true. The addictive aspects add an extra element that can make it hard. My suggestion is to slowly lower the amount of nicotine in your cartridge until you get to 0%. Then you just need to replace the act of vaping with something else!
So I made it to 28 seconds of the video and noticed a single frame change. Something yellow. Is this subliminal messaging that you're incorporating into the video? Not sure if I should watch it further
You can do it! That's me too. I am starting to eat better. Have a 386 day streak on Duolingo for French (and I never thought I'd be able to do 10 days in a row...)... but I haven't been meditating like I want... still trying!
Ok but like, this channel is CRITICALLY underrated. For the editing and quality you'd think they'd have like 500,000 subs at LEAST
It's a lot easier for me to start good behaviors in a new environment, f.e. starting sports on vacation, or starting good habits around the household after I moved into a new house.
Yes. Whatever old habit you are trying to break ended up being a habit for a reason, i.e. it fit well with the rest of your habits, schedules, etc.
Since I moved cities for instance I have been drinking out a bit too often. The real problem however is that there is a local pub on my way home and pretty much nothing else, so when I come home tired it's the only obvious alternative to going home and sitting alone on my couch. If I wanted to meet with friends elsewhere or do something different after work, I would have to go well out of my way to do so.
Environment is much more important than people realize.
Oh, I accidentally started doing this!
In december I wanted to drink with family and friends with events (Christmas and such), but not too much. I decided to stop drinking during the week, and stop eating junk food (aka chips and choclates) at the same time. First step was to stop buying it. With the sweets I promised myself I first had to finish whatever I had in the house, before I bough new things. For the beer, I also bought soda instead of alcohol, because I knew I wanted to drink something during dinner.
The interesting thing was that I missed it for one day, and then didn't missed it at all.
Slowly I also stopped drinking soda, I now trained myself to associate tea with comfort, so whenever I want to drink or eat something to comfort myself, I make a cup of tea.
Another thing was that I started doing this before new year. It's still a resolution, mostly to keep doing this. I think one of the problems is that people associate it with one time of the year, "now I have to", instead of routinely changing their habits. Also goal oriented doesn't always help, because a lot of people stop when they reached their goal.
I also want to start exercising, which is harder, because I have nothing to substitute it for. I have to start, if I want to or not.
This is exactly what I did to quit my bad habits such as smoking and eating terrible food, I now have a lot of videos on my channel about this same topic surrounding fitness and healthy choices - understanding my brain was the key to my fitness journey success :)
Ally Astrocyte, this is an excellent session of explaining stuff. Thank you! I learned a lot.
I knew it! There is some reinforced cookie neural connection in my head. Thanks for the video it was cool! Hope you have a great 2020!
I feel as if being away from my toxic household pushed me further in trying to develop better habits despite failing numeral times. I can now get up and exercise as if it’s nothing but still need a lot of work in terms of being social and eating healthy
That was a wonderful video!
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Damn, that breaking bad reference
Subtle
I rest my case, having no New Years resolution still is the best thing to do.
Ya know, sometimes that’s the way to go. Different strokes!
This is extremely informative and very very interesting.
Love it!
I really want to stop procrastinating
Same
Stick around, we might have something in the works.
Informative !!
Awesome 👍👏
Did anyone else notice the 1 frame of breaking bad at 0:28? It seems to happen every time she says “breaking bad” I find this very funny
Do you guys always splice things in like that breaking bad image at 1.01
We’ll never tell...👹
Trying to break procrastination habits so I can finish my PhD on time!
So what about quitting one small habit cold turkey? Would that “starve” the neural connections and cause them to disconnect/go out of use faster? How does this work biologically?
For instance, would quitting nighttime snacking cold turkey vs incrementally have a better chance at succeeding at long term habit change?
I searched for this because of feeling sad because it is my day one of skipping the sugary coffee mix that I like. I believe it is bad for my health esp if I'd have it each day.
Now, say my name! 😎
... You're goddamn right!
Good content
I'm trying to quit vaping. it's so hard because it's super easy to do, plus it's inherently addictive with the nicotine. Sigh.
So true. The addictive aspects add an extra element that can make it hard. My suggestion is to slowly lower the amount of nicotine in your cartridge until you get to 0%. Then you just need to replace the act of vaping with something else!
@@neurotransmissions I think the biggest problem for me is finding a replacement.
@@hellmunkie get a fidgettoy. Or carry a paperclip or something.
The elastic band on the wrist is common cause pain. Lol
@@neurotransmissions I don't vape anyway
So I made it to 28 seconds of the video and noticed a single frame change. Something yellow. Is this subliminal messaging that you're incorporating into the video?
Not sure if I should watch it further
it's a breaking bad poster because she said "breaking bad habits" 1:01
Trying to get my girlfriend to stop forcing me to watch these types of videos.
Tldw; if you want to break a bad habit, do something else.
You're failing to incorporate Jesus into your habit change.
Eat better, meditate, learn French... The usual I guess 🤷♀️
You can do it! That's me too. I am starting to eat better. Have a 386 day streak on Duolingo for French (and I never thought I'd be able to do 10 days in a row...)... but I haven't been meditating like I want... still trying!
use instagram instead hahahahahahaah