Christian Life Coaching - Better Living Away From Bad Habits!

We start habits to help us establish a familiar world, and then look on them to help us establish control. We would probably label these habits as good habits. We all have habits that are make up our character and what we do everyday.

Most of our behavior is demonstrated by our habits. But, what is a habit? Organically, habits are formed through continuous, electrical impulse messages to our head, which the sensory nerves carry from our hearing, touch, vision taste and smell to the data processing area of our brain over our lifetime. Cognitively, habits are a repeating, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through successive repetition, a determined disposition of the mind or character.

It is paramount to admit that some of those habits are not good for us. We all have habits or patterns that are what makes us unique and how we go through our day - but there is a point when we need to acknowledge that some of those habits are not good for us. All of us have some habits in their lives that robs their day-to-day lifestyle of a little (or a lot) of prosperity.

You may recognize that to successfully manage habit changes, replacing bad habits require exchanging them with new good ones. Common bad habits often include: over scheduling, over spending, over eating, and even over analyzing. We often believe that we can't better an area because it is a "habit," and conventionally habits are hard to break.

What is the origin of these habits? We indoctrinate ourselves with injurious habits as written in 2 Peter 2:14, we are insatiable for sin [we] train our hearts in greed.

Bad habits are genetic coming from parents and grandparents. 1 Peter 1:18, shows that the useless behavior patterns that were passed down from your forefathers. But, when Christ releases you from them He makes it possible to live the remainder of your life no longer following human desires, but following the will of God.

We get them from association. Paul warns us in 1 Corinthians 15:33, Dont be misled, bad friends corrupt good habits. Further, he notes, There are some who, out of habit formed in idolatry, still eat food as if it were offered to idols, and because their conscience is weak, they are in the wrong. So it is apparent that even after good habits are started being around those who are of conflicting behavior can wreck them.

What do we need to do about our habits?

5 steps to alter an unhealthy habit into a healthy one

The first step in replacing a wrong behavior is to stop trying to alter it and create a plan to change it. A habit implies that a learning has imprinted in behavior that occurs so automatically that the individual does not have to plan this action or behavior. Often you do not realize what you are doing until after it is over. You must set in place a method to catch this unprofitable habit or action.

Two, the bad habit is like a hole in your personality. It needs to be filled with something that is proper and upright. The Holy Spirit by His Word teaches in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16) so that new behaviors become habits in place of old ones. Determine what you will do in place of the habit you intend to replace.

Three, the time when you are most likely to employ in bad behaviors are when you are stressed, hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. You can remember this with the acronym Shalt as in shalt not! Keep watch on these occasions as this is when your conscience be most weak.

Four, we were created to have relationships. Having someone you can be real and honest with is terribly important in replacing bad habits. Talk with that person and ask them to keep you accountable regarding your intended result. Ask them to question you about your progress in making your change on a weekly basis.

Lastly, practice! Hebrews 5:14, shows to us that mature Christians are those whose faculties have been trained by practice to do distinguish good from evil. Confirm a practice that exercises the good replacement. Mark this -- It took time to develop your bad habit, so it will take time to replace it. Is there some habit or behavior that you keep repeating and constantly lament about it?

I bet you are ready to change your bad habits with proper ones.

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