Very true, especially if your environment becomes permanent rather than a temporary "vacation" type of change. You may stop a bad habit or acquire one during a visit to a different place, but what happens when you return home. While living in Israel, I lost fifteen pounds by eating good, healthy kibbutz-grown food. I wanted to continue that Mediteranian diet back home. Uh-oh! Suddenly I was back in the land of junk food. Try as I did, I soon regained that fifteen pounds and added more over the years.
Hi Sue! That's very interesting. You're right, if you go back to your original environment, you're very likely to go back to your bad habits. It's important to find ways to adapt or else you'll end up being absorbed by the environment like you were at the beginning.
Yes! I'm a living testimony to the truth of how powerful changing your environment can be. The environment in which we form our daily habits reflects back the energy we bring to it. If that environment is mired in gossip, negativity, and stagnation, we will be caught in the negative feedback loop that keeps us trapped. Break free and you free you're heart and soul to grow again.
Hi Jim! Good reflection, that's just the key. We have to know how to choose our environment well and, as much as possible, create an environment of people and habits that empower us.
When I quite smoking 38 years ago I avoided all the “trigger” points in my life.
Instead of lighting up after a meal I went outside. Instead of a smoke with a drink I avoided those places where alcohol was present. (Never have been much of a drinker). When driving I would listen to talk radio, or take a different route to a common destination.
Hi! Your story sounds great, that's just the idea of modifying the environment. It's a very studied question in psychology and one that impresses me. Many times change doesn't start with us, but with what surrounds us.
It's great that you quit smoking, your body will thanks you for it.
Very true, especially if your environment becomes permanent rather than a temporary "vacation" type of change. You may stop a bad habit or acquire one during a visit to a different place, but what happens when you return home. While living in Israel, I lost fifteen pounds by eating good, healthy kibbutz-grown food. I wanted to continue that Mediteranian diet back home. Uh-oh! Suddenly I was back in the land of junk food. Try as I did, I soon regained that fifteen pounds and added more over the years.
Hi Sue! That's very interesting. You're right, if you go back to your original environment, you're very likely to go back to your bad habits. It's important to find ways to adapt or else you'll end up being absorbed by the environment like you were at the beginning.
Yes! I'm a living testimony to the truth of how powerful changing your environment can be. The environment in which we form our daily habits reflects back the energy we bring to it. If that environment is mired in gossip, negativity, and stagnation, we will be caught in the negative feedback loop that keeps us trapped. Break free and you free you're heart and soul to grow again.
Hi Jim! Good reflection, that's just the key. We have to know how to choose our environment well and, as much as possible, create an environment of people and habits that empower us.
I can attest this method works.
When I quite smoking 38 years ago I avoided all the “trigger” points in my life.
Instead of lighting up after a meal I went outside. Instead of a smoke with a drink I avoided those places where alcohol was present. (Never have been much of a drinker). When driving I would listen to talk radio, or take a different route to a common destination.
It was still hard, but it did help.
Bonus, got caught up on a lot of chores.
Hi! Your story sounds great, that's just the idea of modifying the environment. It's a very studied question in psychology and one that impresses me. Many times change doesn't start with us, but with what surrounds us.
It's great that you quit smoking, your body will thanks you for it.