>>876507People will caution that you can't do it along. That you'll hurt yourself too much when you fail and reset yourself. Then, when the progress you are making is too obvious, they'll start complimenting you. As you use that disciplined momentum to get to the last bits of your goal or you move focus after defeating a bad habit, they'll not even want to bring the subject up because they don't have any faith that they could have been as strong for as long as you had to be to get where you are. The sad part is that they are that strong but they refuse to believe it and they'll set your example aside, ignore it, as if you are just an exception to some law of the universe they are slaves to.
All habits are just behavioral patterns mortared into place. They can all be dismantled by the same process that built them. These avenues of thought helped me lose 170 lbs while getting me over my Agoraphobia. I began to work out that agoraphobia, and even the state of being a fatass, had become a behavioral habit.
>Pavlovs dogs>what are the basics to forming habits (training animals) in any creature?>Exposure therapy and how it works>the fundamental principles behind resistance training and how those principles are seen in biologic adaption throughout nature>what is the purpose of pain or discomfort when no lasting damage will come from the stimulus?>If behavior patterns are formed in creatures to benefit their survival, then, could my destructive habits actually be behavioral protective reactions that happen to be making shit worse?One of my thoughts I'd use to spur my conscious mind into the present (adapted for your situation) was
>Who controls the hand that grabs the bottle?>that uncorks or unscrews the top?>Who controls the hands that are steering into the liquor store parking lot?I shit you not, sometimes those thoughts are the only things that helped me take back control of the bad days actions.
