Breaking Past Bad Habits

Being a slave to a bad habit or

a servant of a good habit
– the choice is yours.
- Fred Van Amburg

We make our habits…

And Habits make us...
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What are Habits?
Definitions (Oxford dictionary)
1. Settled or regular tendency

2. Practice that is hard to give up

3. Mental constitution or attitude

We take shelter of our habits

 ACTIVITY
BRAINSTORM TYPES OF BAD HABITS
SIMPLE SERIOUS GRAVE
How are Habits Addictive?
i. Old habits die hard

ii. Habits are like soft cozy beds – easy

to get in, difficult to get out

iii. Habits are like a thread. You keep adding-

they turn into a rope

iv. Habits start by being too weak to be

‘felt’, and end up becoming too strong to
be ‘left’

v. Before you realize that you have got the

habit, the habit has got you.
Why are Indian’s Preferred for Employment ?
Don’t Westerners have? So why are Indians preferred?
• Better Communication Skills • Hardworking? • Culture?
• Sincere? • Mannered?
• More Managerial Skills
• Accountable? • Humble?
• More Interpersonal Skills
• Responsible? • Respect?
• Higher Educational Universities
• Ownership?

Indian Value
System based on
Vedic Wisdom
forms the basis of
our Good Nature
(HABITS)
How Bad Habits effect our He gets into
careers? Should I recruit
unnecessary affairs
and cannot work
with anyone
He has no him, or should I professionally!
control over
his eating, look for someone He has a broken
how can he be
fit to work?
with GOOD marriage because
of his habits, he is
He never HABITS? not attentive at
comes to work work !!
fresh, what use
is he to us? He is a spoilt brat.
Every one hour he He cannot he nice
goes for a 15 min to anyone at work !
smoke break, that
25% productivity
lost!! He has too many
He is always physiological
unwell, I cannot issues and never
rely on him for looks confident at
anything !! work…
What are the effects of Bad Habits?
ALCOHOL
• 40 million Americans are serious alcoholics.
• 53 % Americans’ close relatives has severe
problem due to alcoholic bad effects.
• Nearly 88,000 people (approximately 62,000
men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-
related causes annually, making it the third
leading preventable cause of death in the
United States
• 275 Thousand people injured-Drunken driving.
In 2013, alcohol-impaired driving fatalities
accounted for 10,076 deaths (30.8 percent of
overall driving fatalities
• Alcohol contributes to over 200 diseases and
injury-related health conditions, most notably
alcohol dependence, liver cirrhosis, cancers,
and injuries
• 696,000 students between the ages of 18 and
24 are assaulted by another student who has
been drinking
SMOKING
• Tobacco kills up to half of its users. 10000 per day
• Tobacco kills around 6 million people each year.
More than 5 million of those deaths are the
result of direct tobacco use while more than
600000 are the result of non-smokers being
exposed to second-hand smoke.
• Nearly 80% of the world's 1 billion smokers live
in low- and middle-income countries
ILLICIT SEX
• Of the approximately 750,000 teen
pregnancies that occur each year, 82% are
unintended. Fifty-nine percent end in birth
and more than one-quarter end in abortion.
• Every year, roughly nine million new STIs occur
among teens and young adults in the United
States
• Approximately 40 million people in the United
States are sexually involved with the Internet
Mode of IGNORANCE
nidra, alasya pramaad
Over sleep hopeless
Laziness indecisive
Madness bewildered intoxicated
Depression confused fearful
Postponing insecure suicidal thoughts
No thinking dull foolish
 Mode of PASSION
sanga, Trishnaa
Impress opp sexPride
Individual player Generous
Overambitious Partial thinking
Lusty, Greedy, Angry Bossing tendency
Cut-throat Competition Snap decisions
Envious and Malicious Thirst for honor & prestige
To see & show glamour
 Mode of GOODNESS
sukham, Jnanam
Controlled mind
Controlled senses Realised wisdom
Cleanliness noble, saintly, godly
Tolerance calm, clear, creative thinking
Forgiveness friendly, compassionate to all
Simplicity discipline, regulation
Wisdom obedience, submissiveness
Thoughtfulness smart decisions/advise
Mind is your friend and can be your enemy as well !!

INTELLIGENCE

DISCRIMINATION
(not information possession) DETERMINATION

ABILITY TO Desist ABILITY TO Persist in

We all have determination; its just misdirected. from the initial nectar of achieving the ultimate nectar
For those who don’t accept God as Almighty, their habits become almighty.
Real determination is awakened by devotional service to God passionate pleasures of enlightened pleasures
Understanding the Conscious & Subconscious Mind

MIND
MENTAL
DIALOGUES
Eg. SMOKING HABIT
• MIND “FEELS” • INTELLIGENCE “THINKS”
CONSCIOUS SUBCONSCIOUS
I’m an Engineer; I should But that’s a bad habit, not good
know how to hold a cigar at for you. Your parents won’t like
least. to see you doing this. You may
ABILITY TO
THINK, ACCEPT AND REJECT SIMPLY ACCEPTS

DRIVER AUTOMOBILE

become addicted to it. Don’t

I think its fun; everyone is
doing it anyway. I should
experience what’s life at least
once.
get into wrong track
But you fool, why do you hurt
yourself by this bad habit, that
wastes your money, ruins your
good health and may cause you
cancer in the future. Stop it!
Don’t even dream about it!

IF MIND STRONGER – MIND WINS – You succumb to Bad Habit

IF INTELLIGENCE STRONGER – You can Resist the Temptation
How to say “NO” to Bad Habits

Where do we get our scripts from? GIGO principle

• Garbage IN – Garbage OUT
• The kind of BOOKS we read
• Positivity IN – Positivity
OUT
• The kind of MOVIES we see • Negativity IN – Negativity
OUT

• The kind of MUSIC we listen • Good IN – Good OUT!

• The kind of FRIENDS we keep

How to say “NO” to Bad Habits

SUSTAIN AND ABSTAIN METHOD (SSS)

SUPPLEMENT GOOD
STARVE BAD HABITS HABITS STAY AWAY
Changes Needed in Our Attitude and Thinking
Change your ATTITUDE towards your Habits
• Accept Responsibility
 For the habits I have picked up
 For the careless indulgence
 For picking up the Wrong Company

Change your THINKING to fix the behaviour

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from observing How did I get into this
habit?
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company…
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Change your BEHAVIOUR to fix the Habit

• Changes take…. 1.True assessment, 2.Determination & 3.Discipline
Steps Needed to Change Our Behaviour

The
TheNew
NewYOU!
YOU!

BEHAVIOR
BEHAVIOR

4.
4. Unconscious
Unconscious Competence
Competence

3.
3. Conscience
Conscience Competence
Competence

2.
2. Conscience
Conscience Incompetence
Incompetence

1. Unconscious Incompetence
All Bonafied Religions Prescribe Chanting the
Holy Names as the process for Self-Realization
Christianity Buddism Islam Vedic (Hindu)
 POWER OF
PRAYERS
PRAYERS
go up
BLESSINGS
Come down
“ O Lord, give me the courage to change the things which
can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the
things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know
the difference ”