TRANSFORMING YOUR HABITS TO TRANSFORM YOUR HEALTH PART 21
This is our last post on willpower in the series, “Transforming Your Habits to Transform Your Health.” We’ve focused heavily on this skill because it’s fundamental to you making the choices that support your best health.
I want you to understand the concept of self-forgiveness. Because, in this journey, we’re going to have setbacks. We’re going to have challenges that sometimes overwhelm us. There will be times when we want to give in to our old behavioral patterns. When we do, the faster we forgive ourselves, the faster we will exit that unhealthy behavior loop. Then we can restart the behaviors that we truly desire and that support our good health.
You cannot beat up on yourself or succumb to guilt and shame. These negative feelings and emotions will deplete your willpower, make you more restless, and increase the desire to do whatever makes you feel good in the moment. Instead, you forgive yourself, accept that this is just part of the challenge, and then you move forward with a new determination.
It’s very important to practice self-forgiveness. Forgiveness of yourself and others. This is one of the most important characteristics that we can cultivate. When we begin to forgive everyone else of everything that’s ever happened, and we forgive ourselves, we enter into a type of freedom that’s remarkable. It’s a wonderful experience.
Practicing gratitude and forgiveness is so powerful. I want you to apply this to yourself. Feel grateful and forgive yourself. Don’t judge yourself. It’s okay. You will continue this journey. You will continue to become the healthiest version of you.
We’ll see you in the next post.
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