2. Video Lesson: Urges & Rationalizations
Welcome to Lesson 4 of the Quitting a Bad Habit Challenge! In this lesson, we are talking about urges: Think about it as a sensation in your body and meditate about it. Bring curiosity. What does it feel like? Urge will get really strong but after a while it will start to fade. Write down […]
1. Video Lesson: Environment
Welcome to Lesson 3 of the Quitting a Bad Habit Challenge! In this lesson, we are talking about creating the right environment: Tell people – it creates accountability. Get rid of temptations. Create the environment that will lead to success. Commit to checking in. Ask for support. This week: Think through your environment so you […]
2. Video Lesson: Key Ideas
Welcome to Lesson 2 of the Quitting a Bad Habit! In this lesson, we are discussing some ground work for quitting a habit. Methods: Quitting cold turkey – from doing it to not doing it at all. Gradually Quitting – slope rather than a cliff. More effective according to the research. Change slowly. Any habit […]
1. Video Lesson: What Is It and How to Pick?
Welcome to Lesson 1 of the Quitting a Bad Habit Challenge! In this lesson, we see what are bad habits and how to pick one: Choose one existing habit you would like to shift now. Habit itself isn’t necessarily bad. The effects that you don’t want for yourself are something we would like to shift. […]
Overview: Quitting a Bad Habit
This one is for the Advanced track rather than Fundamentals. Reason: it is more complex and comes with some extra challenges like replacing a bad habit with a new one. In this challenge we will go week by week through fundamental things for quitting bad habits – we assume you already have some fundamental skills […]
Webinar: Coming Back & Attitude
In this webinar, I talk about the overlap between Meditation and Long-term habits. I’ve broken this webinar recording into two parts: Part I – My Talk: What applies both for Meditation and Long-term habits (See notes) Part II – Questions & Answers: I answered some really great questions from some amazing people, please watch! Part […]
2. Video Lesson: How to Continue?
Welcome to Lesson 8 of the Creating Long-Term Habits Challenge. In this lesson, we talk about how we would like to continue with our long-term habit: Set up the plan to continue with your long-term habit beyond this month. Re-connect to your vision. Notice if it has changed or if you want to change it. […]
1. Video Lesson: Compassion & Learning From Missteps
Welcome to Lesson 7 of the Creating Long-Term Habits Challenge. In this lesson, we talk about useful components for missteps: Two important components: Self-compassion and Learning from Missteps It is hard to learn from the missteps when you feeling judgmental and discouraged. Self-compassion is recognizing difficulties. Acknowledging them. Accepting the suffering. Compassion comes from the […]