How to Build Healthy Habits – Home Isolation Time

Build Healthy Habits in this Home Isolation Time

Habits, in psychology, any regularly repeated behaviour that requires little or no thought and is learned rather than innate. A habit—which can be part of any activity, ranging from eating and sleeping to thinking and reacting—is developed through reinforcement and repetition.

Build Healthy Habits
Build Healthy Habits

It’s not about willpower. Good habits happen when we set ourselves up for success. 

We’re all set for a pattern in our daily lifestyle and that’s our habit. Waking up at the same time each day, brushing our teeth, having morning tea and work from home schedule, all are kind of following the same patterns every day.

So why is it so hard to form new healthy habits?

Well, as humans we are quite comfortable with our formed habits. Good or bad but breaking out of the comfort zone looks a task to us. Moreover when we tend to develop some good habits many of us try to create healthy habits the wrong way. 

We tend to make bold resolutions to start exercising or lose weight, for example, without taking the steps needed to set ourselves up for success.

Here are some tips, backed by research, for forming new healthy habits.

Stack your habits. The best way to form a new habit is to tie it to an existing habit, experts say. Look for patterns in your day and think about how you can use existing habits to create new, positive ones.

For many of us, morning routine is our strongest routine, so that’s a great place to stack on a new habit.

For example, if you wish to quit the habit of morning tea, replacing it with herbal tea or ginger lemon tea can create a great opportunity to start a new healthy habit.

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Or if you get up and you look at your social media timeline as the first thing, take a five-minute meditation practice to start your day.

Morning Meditation 5minutes

Or, while you are brushing your teeth, you might choose to do squats or stand on one foot to practice balance.

Also you can start your day with some 2000 steps walking in the house.

1 Mile Walk Workout at Home

Many of us fall into end-of-the-day patterns as well. Do you tend to flop on the couch after work and turn on the Facebook or YouTube Videos? That might be a good time to do a single daily yoga pose or just go out to hit your 10k steps for a healthy mind and body in fresh air.

Build Healthy Habits of Walking Daily
Build Healthy Habits of Walking Daily

Start small. Big behavior changes require a high level of motivation that often can’t be sustained. So starting with tiny habits to make the new habit as easy as possible in the beginning. 

Taking a daily short walk, for example, could be the beginning of an exercise habit. Or, eating a small fruit bowl mid day every day could lead to better eating habits.

If you want to lose belly fat that’s come due to work from home all day sitting then start with a daily plank habit. Start with just 120 seconds a day, to make the habit stick, and then slowly aim for a 10min plank challenge to lose that belly fat.

Do it every day. Sticking to a habit is important. Aiming too much at one go will tend to make you give up on the habit you want to form.

Choose a simple habit you want to form, like drinking lukewarm water 30min before a meal or taking a walk for 30min daily.

The study, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, showed that the amount of time it took for the task to become automatic — a habit — ranged from 18 to 254 days. The median time was 66 days!

The lesson here is that habits take a long time to create, but they form faster when we do them more often, so start with something reasonable that is really easy to do.

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You are more likely to stick with an exercise habit if you do some small exercise — jumping jacks, a yoga pose, a brisk walk — every day, rather than trying to get to the gym three days a week. Once the daily exercise becomes a habit, you can explore new, more intense forms of exercise.

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