Yes, life pace is quick, nobody has time to go and check and recheck what they are doing, so our resolutions, promises and commitments stay where we have created them...
But if you are still alive, and I am sure you are, then you have time right now to check your resolutions and to restart that process you start when you have made them.
Why don't we commit to what we propose? Why is it so easy to slip back towards old patterns and habits? After all, there is no doubt we do want to change and we want to be better...
There are two ways of seeing this situation. The first is quite biological: when we have habits, the patterns are literally there in our brains. That means we cannot change them, because they are part of our own body. The only way is to create another pattern and that can take a few years. This is why some people after suffering an accident that affects their brains are able to change patterns, habits and even personalities: their brain has changed.
The second reason is spiritual. Within the brain, awareness lives. We use our brain and body to express that energy, something we ourselves are. Habits and patterns come from that energy. If you work on your own self and if you change the way you see the world around you, naturally your patterns and habits will change from that consciousness.
In that case, the first step is the realization something you do is wrong or what it should be done instead, which brings opposite feelings like regret and bliss. At the same time, it starts to give you enough strength to implement a change in your life. That takes you to a second stage when you are able to start a change.
You will need lots of strength to change a pattern. Meditation, reflection and contemplation are normally the means to "recharge" the self in that process.
The good thing is that wonderful experience of being your own master and being able to really change the self at your will. And, of course, to fulfill your new year resolution...
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