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Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do.” In other words, we are our habits. In the case of good habits, this is not a problem. These things continually work in our favor, helping us to live better, more fulfilling lives. But when it comes to bad habits, this is not so great. These can take the form of addictive emotional patterns that disrupt our relationships or poor nutritional habits that undermine our physical health. If you look at your habits very closely, you will see that most of the problems in your life are clearly related to some habit or another.

While studying about Dahn Yoga viewed from the perspective of the brain, habits are the product of well-established brain connections. When you first do something you would consider a bad habit, let’s say biting your fingernails, it is not yet a habit. But for some reason, you feel compelled to repeat this behavior many times. Maybe the nai -biting helps release some nervous tension or staves off your boredom for a while. Whatever the reason, you return to the behavior again and again, with increasing frequency, until you develop a full-blown habit. Every time you return to the action, brain connections are reinforced and solidified, making the behavior very comfortable and automatic for your brain to process. This hardwiring combined with sensations of pleasure result in a newborn habit.

The good news is that the brain’s amazing neuroplas-tic ability will allow you to break bad habits and replace them with a more constructive behavior pattern.

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