As an operating device obeying the mind, the brain is a miracle of efficiency. One thing is does amazingly well is to take repeated patterns and turn them into automatic habits and reactions. If you smile when you see the face of a friend, your brain has created a default reaction, a nice, positive one. If you can't end a restaurant meal without ordering dessert, that's also a default reaction but a negative one. Unlike computers, the human brain can decide how to change is wiring so that new pathways weaken and then erase undesirable reactions.
The root of all bad habits and negative behavior lies on the inside, where our biases, prejudices, beliefs, and self-judgments have taken root. If you believe that eating makes you happier, your brain will make a default connection. Every time you feel sad, your will face a chemical reaction that impels you to eat. So the real question is how to change your brain's default settings? Continue here....
-- Deepak Chopra
