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How to break bad habits
How habits are formed
The importance of consistency
You still believe he was “the one”
Looking back on a relationship in hindsight, it is easy for our minds to trick us into remembering the relationship as much better than it really was.
Force yourself to remember the flaws in the relationship too.
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When everything makes you cry
The emotional pain of a breakup often results in your body pumping itself full of cortisol, which suppresses the immune system and affects coping mechanisms.
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Your brain can't admit it's over
Being in love is like being hooked on a drug - and breaking up is similar to ad...
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Withdrawing from the places
... where memories of happier times still linger may sound appealing, but it can only make the heartbreak worse in the long run.
Rather, we need to “cleanse” our associations with these places by reclaiming them - make new memories, take other friends, or celebrate an occasion.
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Social media stalking your ex
When we are stalking our exes on social media, we will find something we don’t ...
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When you blame yourself
While it is normal to wonder, “What did I do wrong?” giving in to negative thoughts can sabotage our efforts at mending our broken hearts.
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Your self-identity is off
In order to move on, we need to reconnect to who we were before the relationship.
Do not let your heartbreak define you. Remember the things you love, and do them. And if they were activities you loved to do together, continue to do them anyway.
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Get back on the dating horse
The variable that has been found to predict healthier and quicker adjustment to heartbreak is finding a new partner.
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The many faces of the memory bias
- Rosy retrospection bias. We often remember the past as having been better than it really was.
- Consistency bias. We wrongly remember our past attitudes and behaviour as similar to our present attitudes and behaviour.
- Mood-congruent ...
The obstacles we create
Our minds can deceive us so much so that the idea of something becomes more satisfying than the thing itself. And that's why we stop at the idea, before even transforming it into reality.
It’s easy to dream. But that’s where most people stop. And the very act of dreaming stops us from ...
Passion and attachment
Feeling too much passion and attachment towards something can skew our perception of it.
And that's risky because it can make us unwilling to see the flaws in our plan.
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