The Force of Habit and Using It for the Best
The force of habit is an experience that surpasses mind and emotion in its being active. It is a force like a vortex that sucks us into its power. When a habit is established, it doesn’t matter if we’re willing to perform the task or not. In fact, with this force, there is no not feeling like doing a habitual task for we just find ourselves performing it.
Habits that are established are not premeditated, that’s why they are habits. Those habits happen automatically, and truly this is the gift of a habit. However, this force of habit is a good or bad thing depending on the habit at hand. Understanding this force is crucial in this life of being a habitual mammal.
In truth, everything in the universe happens on a habitual basis. The sun and moon rise, the seasons, and the rotating planets. The force of habit is a force of the universe that neither planet nor human beings can overcome.
A habit can be changed for another habit, but the nature of habit will remain constant in your life. The force of habit can either be a blessing or a curse depending on the habit being good or bad.
We can have good habits through daily routines that nourish our body and spirit (the true self) and soul (our emotional and mental entity). And we can have bad habits that are not fruitful in all their ways and reap destruction and distraction.
This force of habit is a phenomenon to rejoice over because this means we can build our life from start to finish with only fruitful actions and states of being and live out those actions and states of being effortless without fail, eventually.
This is the gift habit gifts. However, the opposite can happen when we are effortlessly and tirelessly doing tasks that hurt our well-being. Fortunately, habits can be replaced with each other because bad habits exist.
Because there is such as evil in the world, it is important to understand that the goodness of the habits we have or can have need to be empowered by the Source of all good, God Almighty.
A habit can be changed for another habit, but the nature of habit will remain constant in your life.
Every individual’s life is susceptible to habit. Most probably or even definitely the success or lack of success of individuals is because of habit. Understanding that our day-to-day life is made up of the habits we perform is key to mastering our life.
We will be able to know exactly why our life is the way it is by realising the tasks we do every day, that is, the tasks that are established habits. It is said that a habit can be broken between 30 to 60 days.
What this means is that it will take a month or two to be closer, with one thing at a time, to establishing our dream self (through fellowship with the Spirit), and to surely be on the path of achieving our dream life, granted that we have healed from our life’s pain and traumas. What is two months compared to a lifetime of being? Or two years made up of many two months paired together for each habit, with some breaks in between. These are the possibilities that information enlightens us of.
Habits Are An Important Factor to Consider in Living Your Dream Life
Primarily, for dream goals to be achieved, the day-to-day lives of the individual must align with bringing that goal into reality.
If I want to get closer to the Lord God, but I am not meditating on His Word, how do I expect to be close to Him? He may be close to me because He knows me fully, but I need to take the action of reading the Holy Bible so I can be close to Him as well. Just because He is God does not mean He will magically make me close to Him with no effort on my side because I need to learn what it takes to walk with Him since He is a particular Being. I need to show Him my genuine interest and effort just like in any other relationship.
A wise person once said, ‘You are building your future today.’ What we are doing today is building our future. Opportunities find these individuals that are building in their present ready and set for their tomorrow.
If we are focused and working with good effort, discipline, and diligence, all of this will show in our tomorrow—the future. And if we are lazy and undisciplined with the way we spend our time and effort, this will likely show in our future as well.
We simply reap what we sow. A farmer cannot reap from seeds that were never there in the first place.
A great harvest is made through great sowing, great sowing is made through good effort and diligence. This diligence entails making sure the soil is fertile and nourished for the seeds.
Research and knowledge are practiced before we sow our seeds (efforts), like knowing what nourishes soil, so when time is due, we can reap and not have our efforts wasted because of infertile soil (lack of knowledge).
The goal is not to chase the wind, it is to keep in movement as the ever-spinning earth, its ever-rising and falling sun, and the ever-expanding universe. How bright our future is, is made by what we are doing today. For the things we do today, will be what we reap tomorrow —in the future.
A wise person once said you are building your future today.
A Blessing to the Lazy or Differentiated in Work Ethic
This is not bad news for the lazy, it is good news for all because we understand that movement is in the fabric of our being. And that as the moon moves in splendor, that is, as it functions in a specific way to itself, in a way that doesn’t look like the sun, but it is still functioning, we can function too.
The point is intentional movement, not fast or panicked movement. The sun moves so slowly that we may forget it’s moving at all, but the best is to believe it’ll not be late for its setting.
Be calm and purposeful in your doing and let not the purpose of your doing be uncalm. It does not take giant steps to get to where you are going, it just takes you actually going there. That is, it takes intention and awareness of our desired goal(s) and the steps that we are taking on our way to those goals. It does not take pressure (anxiety) and it does not take unintentional actions (that may be vain). It takes breaths, movement, and mindfulness (awareness). We are never late in our life’s journey.
All this to say, what we establish in us, how we get to where we are going is what we will be when we are there.
Who You Bring to Life Today, is Who You’ll Be Tomorrow
So, if we want to be in peace and calm when we have our dream house, we should be in peace and calm when we are getting to our dream house. We are only ever moving from one habit to another. We are made up of systems.
If you do something once, make sure it is because you want to do it twice and more. If you wouldn’t like to do a thing twice or think a thought twice, do not do that thing or do not think that thought.
“If you tell someone to not think of an elephant, they’ll think of an elephant” is a lie. You only do not have control over trains of thought because they have established neuron pathways that have been established over years, months, days, or all day.
Learn how to change the habits of your neuron paths (trains of thought). It is only a lack of practicing control over ourselves that makes us think of an elephant when we do not want to.
It is not an inability, it is truly our superpower if only we’ll believe it is just like the belief of thinking we think of an elephant because someone said “don’t” think of an elephant. Right now I just achieved “not thinking of an elephant” by staying mindful and present by placing my attention on observing what’s in front of me. I just proved the lie to be a lie.
Are you the most intelligent and powerful creation in the universe or not? Forests are one organism living with the intelligence of flourishing as one. Not the flourishing of this giant tree alone, or this plant, or this beast or crawling creature.
Trees are intertwined under the ground, communicating with one another. Yet, are you the most intelligent, most powerful creation there is or not? The answer is yes, you are, but only you can convince yourself that you are.
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