Materialization for Positive Habit Formation

One of the serious barriers that hold a person from changing a habit or breaking a cycle of addictive behaviors is one bad habit. Bad habits don't allow us to progress and achieve our goals. We tend to continue the habit sacrificing our overall health. Most of the people waste their money, time and other resources in changing their lifestyle by developing new habits. The real need is to identify and modify the bad habit instead of introducing something new when the real problem is moving side by side.

No one cares about why we are keeps on doing something when we know what is wrong and focus on what can we do differently. So, the main idea to work on here is to replace the bad habits for example, cravings, smoking, emotional eating, late night sleeping, inadequate sleep and more. It differs from person to person and time to time. The dependency shifts to various issues. It is important to resist the need to find something new to depend on. Materialization of thoughts give you freedom from these.

To start with the science of habit formation, take a look at how the circle of making and breaking habit functions and how addiction cycle can be broken. In the real life, fact is that to adopt new healthy habits first the need is to remove bad habits. Learn the art of replacing habits to start the road that leads you to success. In the end, you will find yourself stick to good habits and stop procrastinating the learning process for change in habits.

Find your root causes of bad habits. They are either a reaction of your stress or boredom. This is because the addictive habits are all used as a coping strategy for stress and other unpleasant experience influenced feelings. A breakup, loss of job and money are the examples that throw people in the pool of drugs, gambling and drinking. In children, the manifestation is seen in the form of phobia, nail biting and hair pulling. In women, excessive shopping is common and among teens Internet or gaming addictions are prominent. Using thoughts materialization with some healthy coping strategies are fast solution to overcome stress and getting rid of bad habits that already exists and to prevent from developing new bad habits or addictions.

Substitute affirmations to materialize thoughts and elimination of bad habit- There are always some ways that are good for us to use when we feel vulnerable to developing bad habits for example, following weight gain, one can use the affirmation that helps him or her in developing walking schedule associated with a reward. “I am getting slimmer because I am trying to walk 20 minutes daily at 7am, seven days a week”. This thought not only triggers the mind with motivation to respond to the weight loss regimen but also to walk daily for few minutes without any forceful effort.

Identify and discard the triggers- another purpose of identifying the triggers that leads you to crave for addictive cycle repetition is to resolve them before they continues and makes it harder to break the chain. For example, events, places, people and certain situations or timings are the main triggers. For a smoker, triggers may be friends, bar, empty home etc. To prevent the smoking and replacing it with something else, spend less time in home alone, less time with the friends who ask to smoke or trigger to smoke. Avoid going to the bar and other places where smoking cannot be denied. Similarly, emotional eating triggers might be a time that someone spends alone, sleepless nights, breakup, failure in exams etc. In this case, it is better to watch TV, listen to music or watch something funny. Changing room’s ambiance and setting up a messy wardrobe are two more treatable solutions.

Take help from others- any task is difficult to follow when someone is fighting alone. Getting social support makes things easy: joining a support group voluntarily or showing some dedication towards a social cause to utilize the emotional energies. That way, you will less likely to become a victim of a bad habit. Define to you what you call a bad habit. Then, write those things down to alter them with some healthy habits. No one can quit smoking or drinking and gambling overnight. We always need someone to hold us in the time of need.

Unless you start pairing with someone you cannot set you free from addiction of a bad habit. It is not necessary that you join a large group to progress; one friend who is committed to leaving a bad habit similar to yours is enough. You both can support each other and can grow out of the loss really well. In this way, a reward would be a joint happiness and celebration.

Use identification- it is a process to identify oneself with those who you want to become. For example, if you would like to be sober then make friends who are in recovery since years, take their inspiration, tips and experiences to follow the path. Live with those who are same, as you want to become. No one can underestimate the power of getting advice and inspiration.

Visualization is not only a process to adopt in the start but also to follow till the end. After you complete your regular practice of manifesting new habits in your real life. Materializing the thoughts of success is the next step. See yourself into a new lifestyle, into a life of sobriety and healthy eating. This can be enjoyed anytime and anywhere. Build your new identity and stabilize it on daily basis to welcome success soon around you. Few examples of thoughts to materialize are-

I will be healthy and recover from xxx addiction within few months from now.

I will do better in next few days because I am working for it daily.