Clyde Lee Dennis here and today in our seven good minutes. Extra segment, I want to explore that

profound truth we touched on. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too

strong to be broken, but awareness is the key that unlocks any prison of the mind. This wisdom

captures something essential about how patterns form in our lives.

In the beginning, our habits and automatic responses feel almost weightless.

That first time you respond to stress with worry,

or react to criticism with defensiveness.

It barely registers.

It's just one moment, one choice.

But each repetition adds another link to the chain.

And before we know it, what started as a single response has become an unbreakable pattern that seems to control us.

The beautiful part of this truth is in its second half, awareness is indeed the key.

The moment you become conscious of a pattern, you've already begun to weaken its hold

over you.

You've stepped outside the automatic cycle and into the realm of choice.

This awareness doesn't require you to be perfect or to change everything at once.

It simply asks you to notice,

to observe,

to become curious about your own responses.

Think about the patterns in your own life right now.

Which ones have grown so familiar that they feel like part of your identity?

Remember, these chains weren't forged overnight,

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