Killed all my good habits

[Laputan Machine]

For about half a year, i've been doing a fairly steady job at improving myself in various ways: i meditated, i went to the gym, i did good at my school but about a month ago it just all crashed and i haven't been able to reassemble myself ever since. I started playing a lot of video games and my porn addiction began to seep in again. Anyone have an advice on how to start over?

[Self-Mastery]

I suggest to take a look at this book: The Big Leap.

The summary of the book is as follows: When you life is going good and you have a good progress, you mind manipulate you to get back to your old habits. In other words, you capacity to live a good life is limited.

Edited January 28, 2018 by Self-Mastery

[Cjaryo]

This is all just an ego backlash, which will happen a lot on your journey. Just keep getting back up, and eventually, your lower-self will adapt to a new homeostatic level. You want to take away and replace one by one. So, I say that you take away the video games, and replace it with meditation and maybe another (healthy) hobby that you enjoy.

[Laputan Machine]

@Cjaryo thank you. how should i implement that? just straight up stop playing and meditate on the spot or be more subtle about it and just put meditation somewhere in my schedule and inflate how much time that takes so as to kill my gaming habit?

 

@Self-Mastery that is a worrying proposition but i thank you for the book, i'll try to find an audiobook somewhere. I think it's fair to assume that if i cant get off my ass and do the simple things i am supposed to be doing then i can't just read a book that is about a subject outside of my comfort zone

[YellowButterfly]

I think it's only natural to have lulls like this in ones life. The thing that always gets me going again is cultivating a fight in me. Though at times I've noticed that when I fall out of my healthy routines that sometimes my body just wants a rest, especially if I've been pushing myself to fulfill my healthy habits very rigorously. The key always for me is to allow my body to rest, but once it has to pick up the fight again and get back into exercise, meditation and the like by pushing through the wall of that discomfort and to just take a first step. Perhaps older habits aren't a sign that you've slid back but maybe simply your body giving you a sign to take it easy for a bit. I think it's only healthy to take it easy at times and to tune in to when your body wants to take it easy versus when to push oneself again. Allowing the body to rest, but no longer than it truly needs.