C5 Session 33 - Habits vs Addictions

Key Questions

WHO are you around when you are engaged in unwanted behaviors? 

WHAT is something positive you can replace your unwanted behaviors with?

WHERE are you more likely to be while engaging in unwanted behaviors?

WHY are your unwanted behaviors bad for you ethically, physically, spiritually, mentally, and maybe even financially?

WHEN you started these unwanted behaviors what was the reason you continued?

HOW do you plan to take your first step in making a change to stop these unwanted behaviors?

Steps to Breaking Unwanted Habits

1. Change your routine, when you do it, or who you do it with.

2. Replace the unwanted behavior with something else positive or healthy.  

3. Spend time with activities and with people who are not in support of this unwanted behavior.

Simple example;

Before I eat lunch with Suzy we go outside to smoke a cigarette together.

Habit behavior – eat lunch with Suzy

Addiction behavior -  smoke a cigarette

People? Suzy

Place? Outside during lunchtime

Thing? Cigarette

Trigger Point: There is nothing wrong with eating lunch with Suzy but if it triggers you to smoke a cigarette then you probably should stop eating lunch with Suzy. This will be the first step in breaking your habit/addiction. 

Habitual Behaviors - A person who has stopped the habit or addiction but still displays the behavior of such a person is more likely to relapse. 

Have you changed the way you: 

• Act like

• Look like

• Feel like

• Talk like

Self-Reflection Definitions

Trigger- Something that subconsciously or consciously causes a reaction or emotion. Triggers happen when you stimulate one of your senses; hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling energy, touching causing a memory reaction. 

Habits – The subconscious choices you make when you do something.

A habit can be given up by making changes in your routine.  Can also be changed with different people, places, and things. A psychological habit that is hard to give up can feel like an addiction.

Addiction –  What you want to stop doing and feel you can't.  To have an addiction is to have a dependency, dependence, craving, or enslavement for something.  Some addictions require professional help to break but all addictions require a change in the way you think. Thoughts will give birth to actions.

Q - In this session did you learn an in-depth knowledge of yourself and human behavior?

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