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Think it over

21 days to re-shape our mind, individually and collectively: let’s take
this chance!

Denis Capdeville

Abstract
The first 21 days of lockdown due to COVID-19 have triggered in us the recall of this well-known
assumption that 21 days of regular practice are enough to re-shape one’s mind. In fact, depending
on how deep the habit is settled within us, be it a recent one or a pattern that may run in our
blood since generations of ancestors, the good news is that we all have the power to re-define
our behaviour, in order to make them fit our state of consciousness. Observing and practising
are definitively the two main tools at the disposal of the one who is sincerely aspiring to a greater
spiritual clarity.

statement is scientifically proven or not. To
some extent, when millions of people believe
something, it makes it powerful enough to
become true, because our belief creates our
experience and our reality. So, how many
days to change a habit? How many days to
re-shape a mind?

What is a habit?

We may or may not believe Maxwell Maltz’s A habit is a propensity, easily and rapidly
experience* that affirms the power of a 21-day created, to repeat the same thought or
commitment to change a habit. In fact, this behaviour. As soon as one thinks, or does,
belief has influenced so many people around the same thing three times or more in a
the world, and is part of so many current row, one will think or do the same thing
self-development practices, that today, it is again, without necessarily being aware of
no longer important to know whether Maltz’s the process.
*See https://jamesclear.com/new-habit

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