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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 2, 15th July 2020

a football match and eating a snack, before When habits are nourished for a long time
getting back to the living room. they become patterns. When we behave
like our parents, who behaved like their
How a change of environment becomes own parents, patterns pass down through
a great chance for changing our patterns generations. Then, to justify our lack of
courage to change, we argue that our patterns
Habits and environment are deeply entangled. are written in our DNA. That is untrue, since

we now know that we can change our DNA which the habit has been created and usually
by changing our subconscious mind. unfolds. The habit may pop up, but with a
subtle sensation of something missing, which
A habit is linked to the environment because will occur simultaneously.
the environment (meaning all the detailed
parameters and circumstances under which the Therefore, when it appears difficult to change
habit has been created: space, time, sensorial a habit, or to get rid of a pattern, let’s change
information, etc.) is part of the process of its our environment. It becomes easier for a
creation. Whenever the environment changes, smoker to stop smoking when he travels.
the habit may persist or not, depending on how During his journey, all his environment is
long it is in place with the person and depending new, nothing calls back the cigarette. He may
on the willingness one wants to invest to be surprised how he might even forget that
change. The habit may persist for a while, as he used to smoke.
an autonomous force. However, something is
missing in the natural unfolding of the habit, When our environment changes, individually
which is the missing of the circumstances in and, moreover, collectively, let’s be full of

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