Know Your Habits to Change Your Habits

You can’t change habits you aren’t consciously aware of.

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When it comes to choosing any given path, the choice often requires adjusting routines.

That’s not to say that all routine is bad. Some routines are super-healthy. They may be good for you mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically — or all the above. Instituting regular exercise or writing out daily gratitude are examples of this.

Some habits are obvious to us. But others are not. And that’s because habit exists in your subconscious mind.

As I have written prior, there are three states of mind in everyone.

• Unconsciousness is that which you do purely automatically. Overall breathing, swallowing, digesting, and similar things your mind and central nervous system do unaided.
• Subconsciousness is where your habits, beliefs, values, and overall sense of self exist. It is subconscious because you CAN access it — but largely don’t. Subconscious is passive, doing things by rote and routine.
• Consciousness is here and now. It’s your inner being, specifically your mindset/headspace/psyche sense of self. Conscious is active, choosing and deciding things in the moment.