Relaxation

Collecting Art, take a look Habits are formed and strengthened as we journey through a continuous loop seeking to satisfy our urges. Heres how mindfulness interrupts the cycle to break bad habits. If there’s a patch of open lawn at a corner, children will cut through, and grass soon becomes hardened ground. Ancient people created paths walking from one place to another; horses and oxen widened them; and today they’re paved roads. When we want to go someplace, we choicelessly take these well-trodden paths. It’s the same with our brain and the muscles and organs that respond to its commands. As neurons keep firing in a particular configuration, they create a path, and it’s just easier to go there. Neurons that “fire together, wire together.” It’s how we learn to talk, to play guitar, to paint, and to smoke and overeat. The Role of Memories in Habit Formation As Judson Brewer points out in The Craving Mind, laying down memories pathways to return to is as ancient and ingrained as life...

Collecting Art, take a look Habits are formed and strengthened as we journey through a continuous loop seeking to satisfy our urges. Heres how mindfulness interrupts the cycle to break bad habits. If there’s a patch of open lawn at a corner, children will cut through, and grass soon becomes hardened ground. Ancient people created paths walking from one place to another; horses and oxen widened them; and today they’re paved roads. When we want to go someplace, we choicelessly take these well-trodden paths. It’s the same with our brain and the muscles and organs that respond to its commands. As neurons keep firing in a particular configuration, they create a path, and it’s just easier to go there. Neurons that “fire together, wire together.” It’s how we learn to talk, to play guitar, to paint, and to smoke and overeat. The Role of Memories in Habit Formation As Judson Brewer points out in The Craving Mind, laying down memories pathways to return to is as ancient and ingrained as life...