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Breaking Habits.
If we have good habits then great, but if we have bad habits then we generally would like to be rid of them. We often need much assistance to break habits because a habit is a behavioural pattern that is ingrained in our mental, emotional, and physical centres.
These three aspects of being human are in themselves expressions of our chakra system.
The Integrated Seven Chakra System.
All human behaviour is an expression of the chakra system, therefore our habits are expressions of the contents of our chakras. We can examine each of our chakras and find our habitual behaviour patterns in them. Examining our chakras, healing them, and re-programming them (thus changing our mind at the deepest level) is a great way to break unwanted habits and establish new and healthy behaviour patterns. Yoga works at this level and hatha yoga is a great tool that we can use to keep our chakras healthy and happy. It helps us to develop and maintain a clear, useful, relevant, and healthy mind and body - physical, mental, and emotional.
One way of leaving behind unwanted things, is to create a small ritual or ceremony - something which will mark the end of a period of our lives. Finally burying the hatchet. Putting to rest that which needs to be dropped.
Another way of breaking bad habits, is to replace the unhealthy behaviour with a healthy one. For instance, if we wanted to give up smoking tobacco, we could instead, take up the habit of chewing licorice sticks. If we want to give up sitting infront of the television in the evening, we could begin learning a physical exercise, or a dance routine, or learn a musical instrument.
Like attracts like. This is so for thoughts and habits also. If we begin with one bad habit, then we will soon pick up other ones - quickly. After some time, we may find that our personality has become completely rotten, and that we are unhappy. If, on the other hand, we choose to try to improve our virtue by become good and healthy, then also - like attracts like. Soon our good habits will lead us to better and higher things, and then even higher and happier, and so on.
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