Changing Your Habits

The only way to change your conditioned habits is to have something in place that will allow them to be changed. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness something needs changing…

Listening to the radio is not my favorite way to past time, but the other night I caught the last part of a song. When the song was over I began looking for another song. Twenty seconds on one station, ten seconds on another, five on another, than another and another, you get the picture. It’s amazing how we stay fixated on something, in this case the radio when it comes to the mind. We’re so reluctant to change the conditioning even though we’re going round and round in circles. Actually what’s on the radio (the fixation) are old songs, yet we listen the same song (thought) over an over. Even though there are many songs being played, we get stuck on looking for ones we like.

Think of something you get fixated on and see how hard it is to change your mind when it gets you in its grip. Unless there’s total awareness of this changing your habits will be just about impossible. The only way to change a habit is to have something in place that will allow it to be changed. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness a habit needs changing. It may be a repeated thought disguised with many different labels, but it’s still a habit. Watch the subtleness of this and in time you’ll see the mind for what it is and how it likes to default to what’s familiar. The issue is you can get so comfortable with this that it’s not realized the habit needs to be changed; this realization will only occur if you have something in place that’s worth changing to…