Held View Reset For Daily Habit Formation-Introduction

As part of a seven day, daily habit formation protocol, you will anchor your practice into your current habits to build repetition. Just like physical fitness, mental fitness depends on training mental muscles by forming daily practices that are simply routine.

Research shows* that your brain is both positively and negatively affecting you every day. Held View Reset and forming habits to utilize the practice will ensure your brain is mostly positively affecting you.

Returning to Yourself — original composition by Patti Hinman.
*Chamine, Shirzad; Positive Intelligence (2012)

Transcript

Many people start the new year with habit trackers and trying to get ahead.

This year,

I recommend,

Instead of habit tracking,

Creating habits that reduce pressure on yourself.

Oftentimes,

We build in so much into our lives,

So many things that we need to accomplish or feel like we have to do because other people are doing them,

That we feel as if we're running away from a pack of wild wolves,

All the time.

And it might feel good to write down,

I'm going to drink water,

I'm going to exercise every day,

But really what's most important is that you are grounded in each day,

That you spend time not running away from wild wolves,

But in a space more like a wise owl,

Eyes and ears wide awake,

Very attentive,

But not stressful in any way.

What I've learned is that building a habit of resetting your nervous system periodically throughout the day,

Based on other habits you have already in your life,

Perhaps getting up in the morning and taking a shower or washing your face.

And at those moments,

Stopping and breathing,

Eyes wide open,

Deep breaths that take you from running from wild wolves back to your own wise owl.

So that's what we're going to work on in this series.

I've called it the held view,

In the sense that you're holding yourself with compassion all the time.

In your worst moments,

In your best moments,

True love starts with loving yourself first.

And so holding yourself in love is a practice,

A daily practice.

In this particular series,

We're going to be training your own wise owl.