Why Your Habit Proves You’re In Perfect Working Order

So often we demonize our bad habits. But what if those habits are working to bring us messages about our perfect human design?You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below.Click the image below to learn about the Unbroken Community and join the waitlist.Show Notes* Your unwanted habit is not a problem * The good feeling our habits point us toward * How we are designed to return to a state of calm and quiet * How understanding the nature of thought resolves habits * The gift of knowing where our experience is coming fromTranscript of EpisodeWhen we have an unwanted habit like overeating it can feel like there’s something broken about us. Our culture tends to shame those with unwanted habits and it is widely assumed that there is something wrong with anyone who struggles with them. Judgments, including self-judgments, are made about a perceived lack of discipline or lack of self-care. But what if an unwanted habit like overeating was a sign of all that’s right with you, not with something that’s wrong?What if your unwanted habit is a solution, not a problem?For decades, we’ve been approaching unwanted habits as though they are the enemy. How’s that working for us? Not well, I’d say. We only have to look at the rising statistics about obesity or drug and alcohol addiction to see that this seems to be a battle we’re losing. Badly.In this course, I’d like to explore turning our attitude toward unwanted habits on its head. It’s so easy to misunderstand what an unwanted habit is trying to tell us, so we’ll explore the messages habits are trying to send us and how our unwanted habits are actually a perfect part of our innate design.If that sounds absurd or ridiculous, consider that until very recently we thought we had only five senses. Scientists now identify more than 20. Things look true until we are presented with an alternative.I’m Alexandra Amor and I’m an author, a podcaster, and someone who’s searched for answers about my own unwanted overeating habit for the past three decades. Name a strategy for resolving a habit and I’ve tried it. Nothing worked.Then in 2017 I discovered a field of spiritual psychology that had me doubting my perceived brokenness and instead awakening to the innate well-being that is within all of us. This change in understanding has me looking toward my wholeness, rather than perceived brokenness, and has helped me to resolve so much of what I had been suffering with for years. It has led me back to my natural state of calm resilience. No will power required.If you are someone who has an unresolved and unwanted habit that’s what I want to share with you in this course.Lesson 1: Your habit is not a problemHello and welcome,Have you ever found yourself engaged in a behaviour while simultaneously berating yourself for that behaviour? I’m guessing you answered yes to that question because the truth is almost all humans have this experience at one time or another. This is an unwanted habit.* Smoking * Drinking too much * An excess of online shopping * Overeating And it’s possible, if you’re listening to this, that you’ve tried to stop an unwanted behaviour at one time or another. Our tried and not-so-true techniques to stop such habits often involve things like will power, or distracting ourselves, or tricking ourselves into avoiding the habitual behaviour. We can work really hard to try to force or convince an unwanted habit to go away and leave us alone. Unwanted habits can feel like a monkey on our back, one who is clingy and relentless when it comes to needing our attention.