Can we change a habit in two weeks, as some surveys suggest?
If you want to change a habit does it change in two weeks? yeah actually there are different surveys which talk about different time durations and two weeks is I would say the minimum we have to do it consistently but it also depends on how deep-rooted is the habit that we are trying to correct so if we do something consistently gradually that activity becomes ingrained and then that pattern gets set within us so in two weeks certainly some amount of impressions are formed by which at least some inclination will develop to start doing that activity again and again so the duration in which we do it continuously that is important but more important is also how often we do the opposite of that so if we can avoid the opposite then that say somebody is dieting and this dieting means something very simple diet there's a normal diet and then there's binging so to develop a we may have a regulated diet for some time but if we go to the opposite extreme in between then it becomes very difficult to come back to the normal level so I'll give another example illustrate this say somebody has a pet dog and they love that pet dog very much and now we come to know that this dog has got rabies and it's not curable a rabies means a dog bites it can be extremely painful even fatal so now when the dog comes and dog wants to lick us and wants to touch us and wants to play with us as usual and we tell the dog go away go away and the dog till now we've been patting the dog fondling the dog caressing the dog now what is happening here so the dog again comes go away again comes go away now if we do it say 10 times 15 times 20 times and after saying no to the dog 20 times one time when the dog comes my heart softens I just fondle him and they think oh he's playing with me she's playing with me and then after that even 20 times I say no still the dog will not be convinced so if I want to get the dog to go away it's not so easy because I have some attachment to the dog but if I want the dog to go away I have to consistently say no to the dog and once I say no to the dog consistently then the dog gets it I am unwanted here no matter how many times I come and proposition this person is not going to pet me this person is not going to caress me so better let me go away better let me go somewhere else so like that we can compare our habit to a dog and if we resist it but in between again indulge in it then it takes much more time to get rid of it but if we consistently avoid it for a substantial amount of time it's like saying that no to the dog again again the dog goes away at that time does that address the question? thank you any other questions or comments? yes in my living or death okay can I give a living force.