Building habits

Repeating simple tasks with a clear intention can reprogram unconscious mental processes. This can completely transform who you are as a person.

Increasing the power of consciousness isn’t a mysterious process. It’s a lot like weight training. You simply do exercises where you practice sustaining close attention and strong peripheral awareness at the same time. This is the only way to make consciousness more powerful. The more vivid you can make your attention while still sustaining

While useful, the lists of goals, obstacles, skills, and mastery provided above can obscure just how simple the underlying process really is: intentions lead to mental actions, and repeated mental actions become mental habits. This simple formula is at the heart of every Stage.

When you truly see yourself as a healthy person, your habits will reflect this. You’ll choose the side salad over fries without even having to think about it.

This takes time, but there’s a lot we can do to speed up the process and set ourselves up for success.