Monoblog Episode: DeTeching
Today I will try to feature 'Monoblogs', my fusion to my constant rants of Monologues to myself:
**upload Voice Memo** and link to this blog.
(recorded back in Mt. Charleston) * I may include this in my life-collective excerpts and book*
Damn.
Took a while before I could set forth the goals of deTeching. So here we are again, 2020 (now). I've slowly let go of social media since the 31st. Detoxed from Wine completely on the 1st, then went off the grid (almost) on the 2nd.
My wife asks me why I need to 'deprive' myself of these things, rather--I told her, it's not deprivation but discipline. I need to be able to discipline myself in order. To actually bullet-point my thoughts and creating an action plan. My monkey brain automatically reaches for the phone and is programmed to keep scrolling. My monkey brain also is defaulted to think that after each work week and in between, I am programmed to drink wine. Actually, I am programmed to drink wine after each stressful day! Why is that?
So as I let go and become more conscious about my actions and aware of my behavior patterns, I learn the hard way or rewiring what my brain is 'program' to do. If I can program it to drink wine as a 'de-stressing response' on my daily routine, I can conscientiously take a shift and reprogram it to what it was biologically and effectively able to cope.
The skill of pattern building, and behavior modification, together with habit forming are all in one's mental strength that takes practice, just like any workout.
As of today: I am 72 hours strong.
1.04.2020
**upload Voice Memo** and link to this blog.
(recorded back in Mt. Charleston) * I may include this in my life-collective excerpts and book*
Damn.
Took a while before I could set forth the goals of deTeching. So here we are again, 2020 (now). I've slowly let go of social media since the 31st. Detoxed from Wine completely on the 1st, then went off the grid (almost) on the 2nd.
My wife asks me why I need to 'deprive' myself of these things, rather--I told her, it's not deprivation but discipline. I need to be able to discipline myself in order. To actually bullet-point my thoughts and creating an action plan. My monkey brain automatically reaches for the phone and is programmed to keep scrolling. My monkey brain also is defaulted to think that after each work week and in between, I am programmed to drink wine. Actually, I am programmed to drink wine after each stressful day! Why is that?
So as I let go and become more conscious about my actions and aware of my behavior patterns, I learn the hard way or rewiring what my brain is 'program' to do. If I can program it to drink wine as a 'de-stressing response' on my daily routine, I can conscientiously take a shift and reprogram it to what it was biologically and effectively able to cope.
The skill of pattern building, and behavior modification, together with habit forming are all in one's mental strength that takes practice, just like any workout.
As of today: I am 72 hours strong.
1.04.2020
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