Positive Habits

To overcome a negative habit, we have to ensure that the intellect is strong
and stable enough to lead the mind with knowledge and comprehension. In this
way, transformation is more deep and lasting, creates satisfaction and
fullness, and greatly improves our self-esteem.

Our mind, which is under the influence of an old program, must be left in no
doubt that "I", the original personality, no longer wants to go down that
old road. We must have the strong determination to create a new thought
pattern; this will also be recorded on our memory bank.  This new register
will help us to avoid taking up the old habits the next time something
similar happens. For a period of time the two thought patterns, the old and
the new, will exist alongside each other.

To achieve a long-lasting transformation, we should not suppress our mind
and immediately eliminate all the habits or tendencies to which the mind has
become accustomed to. If we do this, the mind will begin to cry and make a
fuss, and finally, the moment we lower our guard and stop paying attention,
the old habits will emerge again and drag our mind towards automatic
thoughts and actions so that, almost without us realising, we are once again
immersed in our old way of thinking and doing.

We have an alternative: creating thoughts of a greater quality that emerge
from a new conscience. In this way, thanks to these positive thoughts, full
of love, harmony and creativity, the mind will start to cleanse itself,
replacing the old habits and negative tendencies in a totally natural way.

The positive thought that preceded the positive action is still conscious,
but the more we repeat the positive action the less conscious we are of the
thought that created it. The time comes when we don't know why we are doing
whatever we are doing: it has become a positive habit.