Dear Gaia:

Your attitude, being enthusiastic, even for a short time, that .. makes me feel enthusiastic myself!

I will share with you then how to change those chemical and behavioral habits. What I mean by chemical habits is that our brains being organs of flesh and blood, when we imagine people and things, when we think our thoughts- there aren’t real people in there, real images, it is all the result of complex and intricate chemical processes. Chemistry is biologically what we are.

People often take the fastest and easiest way to change their brain chemistry and that is, by using drugs. We all do it to some extent by drinking coffee or a glass of wine and such. But this is not what I am referring to by changing chemical habits. I am referring to permanent changes. It takes months to change a chemical habit so that  the change is significant enough for you to notice. it takes months of conscious work every day. It can’t happen faster than that.

If you expect it to happen faster, then you get disappointed and give up. Expect it to be very, very slow and persist, don’t give up- this is key.

How to start changing a chemical habit: by changing a behavioral habit. It is way faster to change a behavioral habit than it is to change a chemical habit. But it is not easy. Choose a behavioral habit (or a few that happen together) that you want to change and that is possible for you to change (however difficult and however many times you tried and failed), and let me know what it is.

anita