The greatest habit we must break is the habit of being ourselves.When the Body Is Running the Show
Here are some practical illustrations of the body being in a
habitual state. Have you ever been unable to consciously remember
a phone number? Try as you may, you can’t even recall three digits
out of the string of numbers required to make the call. And yet, you
can pick up the phone and watch as your fingers dial the number.
Your conscious, thinking brain can’t remember the number, but
you’ve practiced this action so many times with your fingers that
your body now knows and remembers better than your brain. (That
example was for those of us who grew up before speed dial or cell
phones came along; perhaps you’ve had the same experience with
typing your PIN into an ATM or entering a password online.)
Similarly, I can recall times when I worked out at a gym and had
a locker with a combination lock. I was so tired after the workout
that I couldn’t remember the combination. I’d stare at that dial,
trying to recall the sequence of three numbers, and they wouldn’t
surface. However, when I started to twirl the dial, the combination
would come back to me, almost as if by magic. Again, this happens
because we practiced something so many times that our bodies
know better than our conscious minds. The body subconsciously has
become the mind.
Remember that 95 percent of who we are by age 35 sits in the
same subconscious memory system, in which the body
automatically runs a programmed set of behaviors and emotional
reactions. In other words, the body is running the show.When the Servant Becomes the Master