Creating Healthy Habits and Rountines

[Zachary]

Hi is anyone else having trouble getting the video to play?

[Sam]

Hi Daniel
Thanks for an inspiring session. I thought I posted feedback previously but doesn’t look like it went so I will do “a do over”.
I am getting on well with building on my morning routine since your video and since exploring some of James Clears’ work around creating new habits. In fact I have noticed that I am really enjoying my morning routine, especially since you suggested not to focus on just the outcome but to focus on the feeling and experience in the moment(s). I have studied hypnotherapy and I always interpreted visualisation as a process that just focuses on the outcome of your desired goal while using present tense language, and bringing feelings of the desired goal into the present moment. I now totally get the need to develop and trigger healthy instant gratifications while practising my habit/routine and how this supports the overall outcome in the future.
I also seem to be practising my morning routine with a deeper sense of compassion for myself and with less pressure. Any queries around how good/bad/sufficient my practise was has gone away as I feel good for just showing up. So thanks.
I am having an interesting experience with getting rid of old habits. This is a work in progress. I will discuss further re Michael’s video on transformation.
How are others getting on?
Thanks, Sam

[Allyson Duffin-Dalton]

Thank you so much for this amazing presentation. I watched it under a week ago and I’ve been thinking about the concepts daily- mainly the connection of “incorporation” leads to “transformation.” I’ve been trying for YEARS (like, over a decade) to break my very unhealthy phone addiction. I have tried everything but I go through actual withdrawals when I leave my social media behind. You are so correct when you say that we cannot eliminate habits, or in my position addictions, we can only replace them. The lecture had me thinking about ACTUAL replacements for my addiction, not just temporary gratification tools. If I’ve learned anything during my time as a social media addict, it’s that “I’ll scroll for just a little bit more, what if I see a good video to watch? What if one of my friends posted something important? What if there is news that I need to know?” I am always searching for the emotional gratification that just might never come. So I scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll, hoping to receive that high associated with finding something good, and when I don’t I just keep scrolling. I had been doing very well with not using facebook, but when the unjust murder of George Floyd happened, I wanted to find the protests and facebook is where I thought the information would be. Now, I feel trapped in this never ending scroll loop forcing myself to be drug deeper into the pain and hate inside this world, instead of putting my phone down and spreading love and human connection.
I’ve also been making my plan for my intention setting. It’s taking me a while because I’ve tried in the past and never succeeded. I am hopeful that now that I have the information I needed but didn’t know was available to me that I can make a change. We are a very emotional creature, we strive for a response from anything, and I want to have a positive response to my intention setting as opposed to being grumpy in the morning when I choose to wake an hour before my husband, and I want to feel joy that I get to feel the first sun rays on my skin while I tend to our garden that will feed us and our neighbors, and I want to feel a deep connection with my own body and mind while I lay in our yard with my dogs instead of laying on the couch watching “The Office” for the 3,000 time. I always say that I want to be healthy and happy, but that goes much further than eating and drinking correctly and stretching on occasion, I need to begin by developing the building blocks to what I need as a human being- connection to the Earth and all those who inhabit it, exercising my mind and challenging it to be strong and leave unhealthy habits be, and choosing to love and stray away from the pain.