Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book entitled The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert

Betts, published in 1906.

Habit is our best friend or worst enemy.

We are walking bundles of habits. Habit is a cable which we cannot break.

Such are the popular expressions linked with habitual behavior. In other words, let me know your

habits of life and you have revealed your moral standards and conduct. Let me discover your intellectual habits, and I understand your type of mind and methods of thought.

In short, our lives are largely a daily round of activities dictated by our habits in this

line or that.

Most of our movements and acts are habitual.

We think as we have formed the habit of thinking.

We decide as we are in the habit of deciding.

We sleep or eat or speak as we have grown into the habit of doing these things.

But while habit may be considered a tyrant, its potential benefits far exceed

the bad. Many people when they speak or think about habit give the term a very narrow

or limited meaning. They have in mind only certain moral or personal tendencies usually spoken of as one's habits.

But in order to understand habit in a thorough and complete way,

we must broaden our concept to include every possible line of physical and mental activity.

Habit may be defined as the tendency of the nervous system to repeat any act that has been performed once or many times.

In time, the tissues of the human body can be molded into almost any form you choose.

For example, wrong bodily posture can produce curvature of the spine.

Muscles may be trained into the habit of keeping the shoulders straight or letting them droop.

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