The Daily Rituals of the Healthiest, Most Attractive People in the World

When we have a conversation about our personal habits the most of the time we don’t even know what happens in our brain or our body for that habit to be created and how that specific thing that we do in our daily basis became a habit one day .

When we do something repeatedly it is a habit. A habit can be a routine or not, what’s the difference between those two?

A habit can be something that works for us in a specific situation and that becomes a routine that can be a healthy or unhealthy routine.  Also, it can be something that we do when we get triggered and it has an emotional attachment for us, usually unhealthy.

Either way, we want to be aware of the chance that the habit serves us in a healthy way or unhealthy way.

A good example of a healthy habit/routine is to get 8 hours of sleep at night. We created a routine because that serves us by providing more hours of rest and makes us feel better the next day.

We create habits of everything and often are unhealthy such as having one or two glasses of wine before dinner every night because we need it to unwind. This habit doesn’t serve you in any way but in your mind it becomes natural and you do it without even thinking.

For that to happen in both cases a wire was created in your brain one day and got reinforced by repeating the same thing daily for a period of time and that created a habit, healthy or unhealthy.

Probably you have heard the word “wire” when talking about habits, if not here it comes a simple explanation that will clarify that for you.

A wire gets created in our brain with a series of small decisions (thoughts) that we make in a very short period of time to take action. For that action to happen our brain uses a very specific neuron called neurotransmitter and we need a whole bunch of them for that action to become real.

To change an unhealthy habit we need to create a new wire that tells us otherwise and reinforce daily to become the new wire until the old one fades away and the new routine becomes natural for us, a no brainer.