26 // Breaking Habits and Mindfulness
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In episode 26 of The Mindful Kind podcast, discover two powerful mindfulness practices to help you break habits and, possibly, create new ones!
By making more conscious choices and learning to urge surf, we can empower ourselves to choose whether or not we take action on our impulses.
Also, learn about why self-talk is so important when we're trying to change a habit!
The Mindful Kind Challenge kicks off on Monday May 16th and if you are ready to sign up and start immersing yourself in all things mindfulness (with support from me!), simply head to www.rachaelkable.com/themindfulkindchallenge
Also, while you're there, sign up to my newsletter so you can access all of my free mindfulness resources, including an eBook, worksheets, a mindfulness manifesto and more!
I hope you have a beautiful week, Mindful Kind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey |
| 0:12.3 | and inspire you to create your own. |
| 0:14.9 | Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness, |
| 0:19.7 | from my personal experiences to useful tools and different |
| 0:23.6 | mindful techniques. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 26 of the Mindful Kind podcast. Today I'm answering a brilliant question from Mel who would |
| 0:40.6 | love to hear about how she can use mindfulness to break bad habits and possibly create some new |
| 0:46.7 | ones. Thank you for getting in touch and sending me your question, Mel. So I'm going to dive |
| 0:53.0 | straight in today and share two awesome mindfulness |
| 0:55.9 | practices which can help you stop doing old habits and maybe create some new ones. First of all, |
| 1:02.9 | I would like to talk about using mindfulness to make conscious decisions. One of the reasons |
| 1:08.6 | why we keep doing old habits is because we don't even realize |
| 1:12.7 | we're doing them or we rush into doing them before we can actually question it. For example, |
| 1:19.0 | a habit I changed not that long ago was about checking emails after 9pm. Having my own |
| 1:25.6 | business and working from home, I got into the habit of checking |
| 1:30.2 | my emails at any time of the day or night. I didn't really want to be doing it, but I just couldn't |
| 1:37.8 | help myself. I would hear that little notification and pick up my phone without thinking. |
| 1:44.1 | After a while, I found myself struggling to fall |
| 1:47.4 | asleep at night because sometimes I would see an email that needed action, but I was already in bed. |
| 1:54.4 | I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it and wanting to respond. So I decided to stop checking my emails after 9pm. |
| 2:03.7 | I made some conscious choices to empower myself to break this habit, |
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