Hardwiring Your Brain: The Neuroscience Of Behaviour Change

If you want to transform your health and live a long life, it is very important to cultivate healthy habits. Read on to know how to do this.

Our brain hardwires everything we do, this is how new habits are formed. So, the narratives that we tell ourselves get hard wired in our brains. Our brains default network is the narratives pathway, and that's what the brain activates. So, unless we are task focused, this is the default network. Our other network is the direct experience network, which helps us experience situations through our senses. Throughout the day, we are constantly trying to balance the two, experience new situations, conversations while creating inner narratives.

Building New Habits

Researchers found that 40 per cent of our actions are based on our habits and not on conscious thoughts. When we are trying to create new habits, our brain has to override its default frameworks are create new neural pathways. This is how our brain builds new habits.

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Creating Healthy Habits

Creating healthy habits can help you transform your health and boost your longevity. Lots of things you do impact your health and quality of life, now and in the future. You can reduce your risk for the most common and preventable health problems such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and obesity by making healthy choices. Maybe you've tried to start eating better, stop smoking, create an exercise routine or even reduce stress. It's not easy but building habits that honour your health thus has to be repetitive and conscious.

An easy way to do this is to make a healthy habit easy and obvious, attractive and rewarding. Simple actionable changes can go a long way to help someone to start working on their health.

Consciously Curate Your Habits

The first thing to do is to create awareness around your daily habits. Doing anything repetitively helps you create a habit and makes it automatic to do. So consciously curating your habits to honour your health vision is a great tool to start working on that fit version of you.

Create A Roadmap

Start creating a plan or a roadmap that consists of your health goals and action steps that you need to do to reach your health goals. Whenever possible, make the healthy choice the easy choice. Get an accountability partner., maybe a friend or family member. You can even set reminders. It's important to plan for any obstacles and create a way to navigate around these.

Your Future Vision

Imagine yourself in the future being healthy our someone who hasn't taken care of their health. Creating a health vision for your future helps you get perspective and realise the importance of setting the right goals and actively working on your health.

Staying On Track

It's hard sometimes to stay on track and sometimes a lack of motivation doesn't work in your favour. Consciously identify any negative thoughts or actions and practice self control. The more you learn to focus on the positives and not give time or thought to any negative patterns, the easier it becomes to create healthy habits.

Patience

Change takes time and things can come in the way. Be patient with yourself when creating new habits. It's never too late or your never to out of shape to start being healthy.

Unpack your mind, the easy way

Try these out. It will surely help.

Workout for an hour every day.
Sleep for 7 hrs every night.
Eat a heart healthy nutritious diet.
Journaling is a great way to unpack your mind.
Spend some time outdoors.

Creating habits and hobbies even that bring you joy often work towards helping you achieve your best health. Health isn't just about the obvious, it's also about the tiny, often unseen habits in your life that work towards helping you become the healthiest, most glowing and fulfilled version of yourself. And remember healthy looks different on everyone.

(This article is authored by Dr Prarthana Shah, Integrative Health Coach)

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