How to Break a Bad Habit

Hi. My name is Charlotte Skiles. I'm a nutrition consultant and clinical herbalist with Eat in Peace Wellness Consulting located in Austin Texas. Today's topic of concern is how to break a bad habit. I'm going to speak this in terms of nutrition. Researchers estimate that it takes us about thirty days to quote unquote break habits, but I think the most important thing is to look for the wisdom in the situation. We don't do things that we don't benefit from. This is often overlooked and we label ourselves as being good or bad based on what we are or are not doing. I think this is a little bit narrow, so if you can look at your perceived bad habit and say how is this benefiting me with the idea that there's wisdom in it you can then observe yourself in the situation and quite often that habit melts away as you realize that maybe the benefit that you're experiencing from it is not as great as the down side from the particular habit. You might be able to either remove it all together pretty effortlessly or you can replace it with something else. You know, in my health history one of the quote unquote bad habits I was having was a lot of sugar intake. I was very dependent on sugar in my diet for energy. Now, once again, my body was very wise. It didn't have a lot of energy on its own. I was living in an inappropriate way and expending a lot of energy being a competitive athlete, a swimmer, and not sleeping a whole lot and not eating good foods in addition to the sugar intake that I was eating. But, when I got sick years ago I realized that sugar was a great gift into my life, you know, it was giving me life and giving me the experience of having energy. However, I got so depleted by that particular substance, because it has no nutritional value and its pure energy that I got sick and so when I looked at my life though and said OK Charlotte how are you going to break this habit. I was able to see the wisdom in my body's pursuit of that particular substance and I was able to sleep more and eat better foods and give my body real energy as opposed to giving it a pure form of energy that was having negative health consequences. I hope that that paints a certain picture for you, because I'm not sure that breaking the bad habit is the best way to look at it. Its how does this particular habit serve me and what can I do differently in my life that will also promote health and well being. So, that's what I have to say about how to break a bad habit.

Perceived bad habit: Thói quen đã ngấm sâu vào người (thí dụ hút thuốc).
Melt away: Tự biến mất.
Deplete: Suy yếu