Creating Healthy Habit Patterns
Our own memories of what we have already done previously in this life can really influence our actions as they can create a strong imprint.
As human beings, we have a tendency to create habit patterns. Just notice when you have a new, satisfying or memorable experience, such as the first time you visit a city and find a particularly good restaurant, how it can very quickly become a pattern to want to revisit this same place, even order the same food. We play out these patterns across a very broad spectrum of our behaviour – from the most basic of eating, sleeping and exercising, through to more elaborate patterns.
GETTING UNSTUCK
When we get stuck in patterns it can often be like we are sleepwalking in routines, the patterns become so thickly layered that we continually just play them out. Eat, sleep, work, repeat. What we did yesterday or last week becomes what we are doing again today. Again, remember that each situation in life is actually unique so if you are repeating the same stuff over, then check you aren’t trapped in your comfort zone!
At the end of the day, the way out of these particular scenarios isn’t to fight with or reason with the voices in your mind but just to keep accessing the greater intelligence of soul consciousness which raises your vibration and radiance to fulfil your being with spontaneity. As explained earlier, this also reduces the volume of the other discordant chatter in the mind (trolls) as well as being much more alluring and efficacious, and will over time begin to change the imprints on the body too.
REFILLING YOUR CUP
So, while acupuncture and treatments can also work to alleviate significantly embedded and discordant energies that sit within the body, you still need to work at refilling yourself afterwards with the good soulful stuff!
It’s also good to notice that since it feels so fulfilling when you have really been soul embodied, there is also a tendency to reach out much less to other things to pick your energy up, whether it’s food, drink or seeking attention from other people (as opposed to connecting with other people simply as a gift of life). You just feel more nourished and less needy!
In some form or another, around any area of your life there are always multiple perspectives, often that contradict each other about what you should be doing. So, all you can do, at the centre of that, is trust what feels right. It’s the only common factor, what’s in your own special heart.
SOUL & PERSONALITY
While the promptings of our soul is always what we are looking for, it’s also helpful to be aware that over time, what happens is that the radiance of your soul, the more you engage with it, starts to take over from your genetic, predisposed version of self that you are born with.
Essentially, your soul consciousness starts to permeate your conscious expression, and you start to become a generally more ‘soulful’ person, enabling you to drop old tendencies which you might have picked up habitually or been influenced by in your early life, but that aren’t your authentic self.
This embodiment of soul is a continual process, and like much else we discuss, can also have a yin and yang quality to it, in the sense that after a concerted period of soul growth, we may have relatively fallow periods where we integrate our experiences to become part of our body-mind and shape our future spontaneous expression in the world.
But there’s no rush – you just follow your instincts and freewheel when you need to while you integrate new possibilities and experiences, and then when the impetus comes to pedal like fury and be the change in your life, expressing this more refined version of yourself in the world, then do that too! Life carries you through this process.
SUMMARY
So how can you incorporate healthy habits into your life today? What will you try to improve on?
If you need further support you can also grab a copy of my book ‘Understanding Human Nature – A User’s Guide to Life’ or visit our wonderful Juice Retreat at the beautiful Moinhos Velhos in Portugal.