Instead, give yourself time and start small: if you want to read for two hours a day, for example, start with half an hour and increase it gradually as you go along. You can quickly get overambitious and set yourself unrealistically high goals. You will be able to get into the habit more quickly if you practise it at about the same time every day.ĭon’t try to change your entire life in a day.
After 30 days, you can then consider just going to yoga two to three times a week – and the habit will still remain.ĭuring the first 30 days, it's important to stick to your routine every day – if you only do it three to four times a week, it will be much harder for you to establish your routine. After this time, you will find that you hardly need to use any willpower before you are rolling out your yoga mat automatically every evening. If you want to practise yoga regularly, for example, it takes about a month of going to yoga (almost) every day. Studies show that it takes just three to four weeks for a routine to become a habit. To make your routines become habits, use the following 5 steps as your guide: Habits are therefore activities that we carry out automatically because they are so deeply ingrained that we no longer have to put much thought into doing them.Īnd if we succeed in turning healthy routines into habits, we suddenly start going regularly to yoga without having to wrangle over it and leave it in doubt every time. They are just things we do without thinking about it.īut what about good habits? Wouldn’t it be better if we thought about how we read a book, mediate or do sport, instead of how we indulge in our bad habits? We all have these kinds of habits, without having deliberately chosen them or trained ourselves to do them.
When we think about habits, we mainly think of bad habits: eating too many sweets, the time we spend sitting at our desk or on the sofa procrastinating instead of actually doing something. What about if there was a way of finding calm and serenity in our lives and preventing stress before it gets a chance to set in? Habits can be a good way of establishing healthy routines and thereby making our lives more mindful and happier.īefore we start talking about how we can make healthy routines part of our lives, we want to consider what makes something routine and what makes it a habit.
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