You know how it goes when you get triggered. Something happens, and before you know it, you are hooked! Pulled into an auto-pilot repertoire of thinking and behaving, which inevitably leads to a less than ideal outcome. These traps are extraordinarily difficult for us to catch in flight precisely because they are so quick and automatic.
We are all prone to this automaticity because the mind-body system is hardwired for habit formation. Your thinking andbehavior habits get formed over time in two ways:
1.The action or mode of thinking is rewarding in that it either increases pleasure or reduces discomfort.
2. The action or mode of thinking is practiced repeatedly.
[For more of this story, written by Lara Fielding, go to http://blogs.psychcentral.com/...to-hack-your-habits/]
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