Habits are routines that need to be acknowledged whether good, bad, healthy, or unhealthy. Habits affect your everyday behaviors. How do your habits relate to Mental Health issues such as Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, OCD, or other Disorders, etc.)? Do you have habits that need to be acknowledged? What are those habits? How do you recognize them in your life?
Your habits and behaviors may have a lot or more in common than you think or can imagine. According to research, whether you realize it or not, a lot of your daily behavior is composed of habits. Research explains that these are automatic behaviors – behaviors you do without thinking. You do them the same way every day, unconsciously.
For example:
- How you leave the house for work
- What you do as soon as you get to your place of work
- How you clean your house or apartment
- How you do laundry
- How you shop for a gift for a relative
- How you exercise
- How you wash your hair
- How you water your houseplants
- How you take your dog for a walk
- How you feed your cat
- How you put your children to bed at night
Are your behavior(s) good or bad, healthy or unhealthy? What triggers your behaviors? A way to replace your behaviors with good, or more positive behaviors, is by using small visual and measurable steps that will create a more positive outcome or goal that soothes your needed desire. These smaller steps will be easier to accomplish than if you looked at how to change behaviors as a big picture only.
This writing is about understanding the importance of you acknowledging the meaning/effects of your habits, whether mental or physical, and how you are affected or not affected by them. Habits can be good or bad. They can be healthy or unhealthy. Do you have habits that need recognition to help you move forward toward a healthy healing process?
Do your habits define/control you? Where do your habits come from? Let go. Release your unhealthy habits by contacting a therapist. Your therapist can help you release unhealthy habits that hold you back from moving forward to a safe and healthy outcome of a healing process.
Reference
Weinschenk, S. 2019, Psychology Today 2022 Sussex Publishers, LLC
