Quitting/Choosing unwanted habits
Habits are basically the activities we like to perform in our day to day life. Habits are chosen by you but it is contradictorily projected. Habits are consent for your actions. What you love doing is never a pain for someone to execute. He/She will put one’s whole body and soul into it.
Quitting is neglecting the habits that someone had adapted for a longer period of time. It takes a brave heart to accept and take this very big step to overpower your Weaknesses. A person who does that is mindful of the harm he is causing to himself and the people connected to him.
Seven ways to Quit Bad habits
- Calm your mind
- Drink plenty of water
- Control your cravings
- Take medical prescriptions (in extreme cases)
- Avoid postponing
- Counseling
- Will Power
Calm your mind
Calming and telling oneself everything is going to be alright is a precious art. Bringing your mind to zero level for your own betterment will never harm you.
This can be done daily by meditating, exercising, or even practicing writing (everyday schedule). Nothing down your entire day on a piece of paper will always remind you that you have no room for bad and negative habits in your day. Whenever you get an urge to do it just remove the checklist and you will feel better.
“Calm mind claims Kind Words.”
Drinking Plenty of water
It’s a myth a healthy mind comes from a clean stomach. On average, we are supposed to drink at least 2 Liters of water every day. It is also believed that drinking water helps in better functioning of the entire body system. It helps you to perform your everyday work efficiently. Water is like a booster to energize oneself.61% of the human body is filled with water. If you drink water every day you will not suffer from physical or mental health problems.
Control your Cravings
Craving is a desire or a temptation you cannot resist. It brings happiness to one’s life be it good/bad. It is impossible to overlook your cravings when they are right in front of you. The best way to avoid them is to divert your mind from thinking about something else or even an exercise to count numbers in reverse order would perhaps help.
For example, you are on a diet but your friends are having street food when you meet on a get-together, rather than cheating for a day its better you look for some healthy options like fruit juice, salads, etc
Take Medical Prescriptions
Medication is the final resort for removing any toxic habit from one’s life. When you feel only medicines will help you, then go ahead and do it. For example, there are some rehabilitation centers available if your problem worsens.
They will take you through a journey where it won’t be a one-day process. After understanding your Severity, they will do the needful. If you are not able to quit smoking you can also get advice from various 24*7 helpline numbers and get guidance from them.
Avoid Postponing
Postponing is delaying your work or habits to another day when the day will never come. Next-day excuses are never ending as it only eats up one’s decided Schedule. Postponing is built on the basic pillars of ‘Laziness and Fear’.
If a person is lazy to get up early in the morning to exercise, he has the ability to drag it to another day until he is determined to do so. On the other hand, fear tests a person for giving up his desires unwillingly. Like if a person has to quit eating street food, he fears that his tasting pallets won’t like the healthy food.
Counseling
Counseling is a medium where you can professionally seek guidance and help without being judged. It helps you talk your heart out unfiltered. You can undergo certain sessions where you can discuss how you are not able to quit a certain habit or even if something is bothering you.
It helps you to break the complexity of a problem part by part and tackle them in an easy way. It is a myth that people feel consulting them would associate you with some kind of mental issue.
But that’s absolutely wrong, as many people during lockdown 2020 discovered that they need counseling too. It’s very important to sit back and analyze certain disturbing thoughts and come up with some solution to them.
“Mental Health needs attention too as Physical Health”
Will Power
Will power should come from within. No one else is going to push you to quit your unwanted habits. It’s been said, “Where there is a Will, there is a Way “.Taking the first step can only be done by you or else your dream cannot be achieved by quitting an impossible habit. Quitting always comes when something is done in excess.
And if your inner heart doesn’t feel guilty about it, you can never overcome your desire to have a controlled life.
“Remember a Strong-Willed person is a King of his Own.”
Positivity lies within
Every creature that is born in this universe is meant to decay sooner or later. So why not leave all positive memories behind. Life is a beautiful journey that gives you a taste of both success and failure. Every time it teaches you something new, be it joy or some bitter experiences.
If you have ups there will be days that you do not want to get out of your bed. You will feel no motivation and always be stressed about something. It’s always necessary to forgive ourselves even if we land on the wrong helipad.
Five practices to create inner positivity
- Forgive and Forget
- Avoid overthinking
- Stop Self-Judging
- Self-Analyze
- Spending quality time with acquaintances
Forgive and Forgive
We humans have been created to make mistakes so each time we learn from them. An individual who takes a risk in doing something new can be termed a living creature. Otherwise, even trees, birds, and animals can be termed living things.
One who takes the responsibility to do differently from others; always comes with a bucket of trials and errors. Even our great scientists had come to the conclusion of proving their theories after failing more than a thousand times. But that never demotivated them but gave them the inspiration to correct their previous mistake and learn from them. Forgiving is the only way to free one’s mind from punishing more.
Avoid Overthinking
Overthinking is not only associated with bad things, but people tend to overthink it during good times too. Overthinking people have an imaginary world where they can create their own beautiful vision. People who overthink can also be termed as creative people as they always have many ideas(positive & negative)both.
It can also be called a need for mental attention as they would like to keep all thoughts to themselves. They never can spill their thoughts publically with a fear of being judged.
Overthinking can be either why life is going so smoothly and well (it pricks them) or they feel something bad is going to happen to them and this good time will end soon. On the other hand, whenever you are in a mess, an overthinking mind will think about more negative thoughts.
“Release your mind out of that cage, Let It Fly.”
Stop Self-Judging
With a great day begins a new life. Respect that thought and you will feel easier on yourself. People often judge you only when things go wrong but not when everything is smooth.
People who just pass judgment without knowing in and out are the ones who will always find pleasure in letting you down. They are most jealous of your good times, hence they never bother you. But when things go wrong they will burst your head with all negative thoughts.
“Don’t be harsh on yourself, Good time will come soon.”
Self Analyze
An Upset stomach is a result of something that didn’t suit your body well. Instead of analyzing what went wrong, we keep on loading ourselves with all the blaming fingers.
It is very important to remove that burden of negative energy as it might create a fear no more taking any further life decisions. This might give others a chance to always control your life as per them.
“Mistakes are human error, but Learning from them is a choice”
Spending time with acquaintances
People who love you will stay with you irrespective of whatever happens to you. This set of people love you unconditionally for what you are. It’s proven that your body releases a happy hormone called ‘Dopamine‘ when you are surrounded by your loved ones. They are strong pillars who play an important role in your downtimes. They will always have your back.
“Success is stardom, while Relationships will stay forever”
Self Correction
In this world, people have learned from mistakes but they fail to correct them. It is built on a delicate pillar of acceptance. People want to hide their mistakes as they feel embarrassed and low to accept them. They always feel they will lose respect in other person’s eyes if they accept it.
Correction is a value that only brave hearts can accept it. People who don’t feel they have done anything wrong are actually cowards to come forward and own it. Remember if you are in an interview and you form a wrong sentence it is obvious you excuse yourself and correct it; so why not apply it in your Real Life.
“Fools never accept but a learner is always thirsty.”
