Spirit + Science

When you combine the spiritual truth that you are perfectly and completely mentally healthy and habit-free (but for your temporary, habitual thinking) with the scientific finding that your habit is made up of thoughts that fade on their own, your habit begins to look far less powerful and stable than it has.

When you consider the spiritual truth that thought (like all human experience) is forever ebbing and flowing, always being replaced with new experience, along with the scientific finding that the thoughts that support your habit (your urges) fade on their own when viewed in a deeper way, it becomes apparent how the only power this habit has is in your innocent misunderstanding of it.

Although it feels fixed, unwavering, and unavoidable, it is actually fluctuating and changeable.

– Excerpt from The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit. Available now.