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What we call habits, addictions, compulsions,

they're all essentially behavioral impulses that are initiated

by precocious regions of the brain.

Before we have conscious thought

in a certain set of circumstances,

action potential that gets us ready or urges us to take an action or do something. The inclination to proceed in a behavior occurs even before,

thought that that's something that we want to do.

Benjamin Le Bette, great neurologist, quite a number of years ago, showed that behavioral impulses can take as

little as a tenth of a second, whereas conscious reaction to external stimuli takes about a half a second.

And to be sure, regions of the brain responsible for the initiation of our addictions, our habits, our routines are

subcortical. They involve two regions that are very influential,

the Streatum, which initiates our repetitive behaviors,

the codate nucleus as well,

which is involved in the repetitive thoughts that can arise.

And they're reinforced by another region, the Ventral

which activates dopamine rewards that motivate addictive behaviors.

They are very, very powerful, influential.

Habits are consistent behaviors which means you know somebody

feels the urge to do a habit it will largely or routine it will largely take the same

form over and over and over again and it's generally triggered by external stimuli certain situations.

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