Karyn Prowen

Habits are what we do when we don’t think.  They are very useful.  We do not want to think about everything we do, we only want to think about the interesting things.  The habits that work well for us are great.  They give our life stability.  However, when we want to change, our habits resist that change.  To change your life, to get through the transition, you will need to change some habits and form new ones.

Once you want to change, habits can be a problem. You are a giant, you have tremendous strength, but lots of little habits can keep you tethered in place like the ropes that bound Gulliver in the book Gulliver’s Travels. He woke up on the beach tied down by hundreds of very thin ropes tied by very small people (the Lilliputians).  He was strong enough to break any single rope, but hundreds of them held him fast.  He was helpless and we may feel the same in the grips of our habits.

Many habits are formed early in life and we never really examine them.  Apparently in India when elephants are young and not very strong they are tethered to a stake in the ground.  The young elephant tries to pull free but is not able to and gives up.  As the elephant grows stronger, it stays tethered; it never tries again to break free, even though as a full-grown adult it could do so easily.  It has obviously decided that the rope is too strong and has given up trying. (Ref: O’CONNOR J & LAGES A  Coaching with NLP  2004)

Coaching can be useful for  breaking unhelpful habits.  Phone 07899 844 933 to find out how.