How to change unhealthy habits?

The brain is constantly modified, neuronal plasticity is the ability to reformat itself through experience and knowledge. Therefore, a habit is perfected with repetition, while motivation and training help to consolidate it. The hard part comes when you have to change habits that are not very healthy.

To change a behavior you have to alter the mental pattern that generates it. At first you can leave a habit, but you miss it and go back to it. To think and live better it is necessary to harmonize the emotional system, according to clarin.com

Neuroplasticity is the physical resource. The brain It makes the rest work. The mind is its invisible part, it gives us thoughts, ideas and conscience.

The prefrontal area of brain it is the one that participates in the changes, when the change is automated, the basal ganglia control the execution, without requiring an explicit and conscious control.

A program is modified when the change is automated and made implicit. The activity of the basal ganglia increases and the prefrontal node decreases, according to information from ilvem.com

The habit creates fixed connections of the stimulus-response type. As in Pavlov's conditioned reflex, it provokes nontarget responses, does not need the feedback that guides instrumental learning, and is resistant to its rapid devaluation or extinction.

A major change implies effort and, therefore, resistance. Comparing the new with the old activates the prefrontal zone connected to the fear circuit and consumes a lot of energy. In order to avoid that the routine triumphs, the proposals must be suggestive, so that the brain invent the solutions.

The question is to recognize what is wrong. A bad habit, although it hurts, repeats itself. It is necessary to make explicit the change and draw a route for the biological clock to get used to.

A change requires prioritizing, planning, executing and controlling it. The attitude is worth as much as the aptitude. The habit of the skill teaches to do, the habit of the attitude the desire to do. The key is proactivity, believing that one can change.

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