Overcome bad habits
influence of your bad habits. One of the best ways to strengthen your willpower is to follow through, irrespective of obstacles, on any decision you make to do something.
To overcome bad habits, be especially aware of the kind of people with whom you associate. Watch how family, close friends, or others you regularly spend time with influence you. Also, watch how books, movies and other leisure time pursuits influence your thoughts. Distance yourself from anyone or anything that reinforces your bad habits.
Good habits are your best helpers. Reinforce their strength by using good actions to crowd out all bad habits. If, for example, you have a bad habit of telling lies, cultivate the opposite good habit of telling the truth.
If a person carries over from past lives the seeds of bad habits, his efforts to create good habits will bring only limited results unless, through meditation, he cauterises the pre-natal seeds lodged in the brain.
Meditation is the best way of uprooting habits from the mind. During meditation, the life force relaxes away from the body and sensory motor nerves and accumulates in the brain. The superconscious uses the relaxed energy in the brain to go deep into brain grooves, seeking out bad habits.
You can install new habits in the brain almost instantaneously through the power of deep attention in meditation.
