Consciousness Is The Key to Success

Want to know one of the major reasons you haven’t changed your eating habits? Simple. You’re still responding in an unconscious way around food. Become more conscious and I guarantee you’ll leap forwarding in resolving your food issues. Habits are behaviors we do without much thought. In evolutionary terms, we form automatic actions for survival. Our mind-body habituates so that it doesn’t have to put substantial energy into making the same decisions repeatedly, allowing it to direct energy in more vital directions in order to keep you alive and thriving. Humans wouldn’t be around today if they weren’t geared to make automatic decisions. According to Steven Stosny, Ph.D., author of “Blue collar therapy” (Psychotherapy Networker, 11-12/2013, p.23), “Habits and the conditioned responses that comprise them are processed in the brain in milliseconds, thousands of times faster than conscious awareness. In fact, most of our decisions are made prior to conscious awareness, governed more by habit than deliberate choice. As Harvard researchers Daniel Gilbert and Matthew Killingsworth point out, nearly half our waking hours are spent on autopilot, in which a wandering mind predominates.” That may come as a shock to some of you who want to believe you govern your own fate. How much of your decision-making around food is conscious or unconscious? How often have you come to in the middle of a binge, as you would awaken from a nightmare? The “feel-eat” respon...
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