Day 45 Understanding The Brain To Build Habits

One of the things I aimed to do during these 100 days is to brute force some habits into my subconscious. This pretty much means creating a connection in my brain between the very primitive core part which is in control and the reward center. Once that connection is there it all goes automatic since you now actually get rewarded for doing these new habits similar to how you enjoy other things that you are able to do effortles. It works the same way around by avoiding old bad habits, those connections in your brain shrink and disapprear which makes not doing those anymore very easy over time.

I experienced how this all works by changing my food intake habits and 'giving up' meat which I never though was possible this way. Right now I'm setting up a strong connection to working out on a daily basis so it will become automatic giving me the life long benefits of it.

The Only Difference Between Eating Healthy and Eating Unhealthy Once it is a Habit, Is That You Eat Healthy and Have All The Benefits That Come With It !

One of the more effective ways to do this is by channeling certain ideas. To do this you need to be aware of the allready strong connections from the subconscious to the reward center. You can see those as highways that can be used to send messages. To give an example: some of connections that are strongly present in my own brain are that I indetify myself with being inteligent and have a strong need for comfort. Understanding that eating healthy is by far the more intelligent thing to do, eating unhealthy makes me now feel like a primitive monkey with very little control and intelligence. As for as far as comfort goes, having done a previous 30 day healthy food challenge some years back followed by a complete relapse made me really feel the difference when it comes down to how comfotable both are which somehow clicked for me.

So emotionally understanding that eating healthy is both more comfortable and intelligent in every way now, makes following this Plant Based Whole-Food Diet almost automatic as it actually rewards me. This same state I would like to get when it comes down to working out and over time also when it comes down to social interactions

Day 45 was all about being active inreasing on my moring run, doing a couple exersises during the day and having a 2 hour outdoor late night tennis session with a friend. Something I will test out at least the next couple of days will be to focus on specific reps and do a lot of the in a day so I actually feel it the day after.