The network of habits is a trap. This means that it has very subtle mechanisms that first offer support, but then involve and then limit the terrain on which it is moving.
However, over time, you learn to balance the damage it does to you with the benefits it gives you, and then you keep it that way, forever.
- The human brain is a fabulous organ.
- Designed primarily to create.
- Creation is.
- In essence.
- The path intelligence takes to solve problems.
- Intellectual faculties and the emotional world achieve their maximum performance in the face of difficulties.
“The habit is like a rope, do we add threads every day until we can no longer break it?. – Horace Mann-
Clothing is a way of delimiting the field of experience, one of the functions of the routine is to reduce the number of difficulties we face on a daily basis, which in a way prevents us from thinking. We can move driven by inertia.
It’s good that we don’t have to think about everything we do, but when we get to the point where everything has been decided beforehand, we start to get bored and then get depressed.
The human brain is designed for change, for novelty, and avoiding them has intellectual and emotional consequences. How do we know if we are victims of the network of habits?Consider these signs.
What implies a duty, the habit leads us to do duties, but these are almost always related to others, not ourselves.
This is what normally drives us to act. There are professional, academic, family, emotional, ideological duties, etc.
However, what matters has to do with what really determines our well-being and our sense of satisfaction in life.
Quality time with the people we love, for example, or the reflection we owe ourselves on a feeling that bothers us and we don’t know why, for that we never have time.
When we are trapped in the network of habits, we perceive discomfort in ourselves, although the routine leads us to organize everything and decide in advance, we experience a kind of discomfort.
Despite this, we silence that voice that tells us something is wrong, do we often end up telling each other that?
We maintain this conformism, hiding behind ideas and premises (such as “maturity”) that are not always as reasonable as they seem.
One of the most damaging effects of this habit is that it gradually generates an excess of fear; without realizing it, we end up being afraid of everything that is unknown to us or that involves some kind of change or novelty.
A certain automation invades us. Every time we face something new, the alarms go off as if we were facing a threat. We do not see the changes with enthusiasm and curiosity, but with caution and fear. We lose the path because of the different.
In the network of habits, there are also times when we aspire to something different, we think that perhaps we could go further or be more satisfied if we did this or that, if we dared to undertake an activity or if we dared to change. .
The problem is that we almost always end up putting these dreams and projects in a drawer, there they have to wait until there are more favorable conditions, or an opportunity arises, or that certain conditions are met, etc.
In the end, these dreams and desires are more likely to stay forever in this drawer.
Boredom is one of the clear signs that we are stuck in habits and manifested by a feeling of selflessness about everything, nothing excites us enough and nothing excites us.
We don’t vibrate with life, superficial emotions dominate most things. Without being fully aware of it, we began to live as if we were “burning time”. We ended up assuming this state as if it were natural and logical. , when it’s not.
Habit is a very powerful force. It is not negative in itself, because it gives us stability, but when it takes over everything, it becomes a network that holds us and suffocates us.
We must not give in to that. Small changes, like taking an alternate route or eating something different, can be good ways to start getting out of this prison.