When you suffer from habitual thinking that you don’t like – and you have a hard time undoing it, it’s because you’re trapped in a physically engrained system of thinking.  What happens overtime is your brain gets trained into feeling certain emotions and you grow used to it.  It becomes unconscious, just like when you have peeled an apple so many times, you don’t even think about it anymore.  Or when you drive to work – you do it without having to think.  The same happens with feeling certain emotions, even if they are unpleasant – they become unconscious and that is where you feel the most inclined to be.  It grows to be your “normal” and therefore, it’s where you are comfortable.  Despite when it’s an emotion that doesn’t feel good. 
I often talk about mental muscle-memory: you have habits of feeling certain things when you are in the corresponding environments and they repeat.  Eventually, it’s just reality and “the issues you face in life.” So when you’re working on creating positive change it will feel uncomfortable, tedious or even scary because of this muscle memory.  It feels insurmountable but it's not, in reality - it's just because you’re used to feeling bad and it’s now associated with “comfort” and safety. 

I will give you tools to overcome this habit so that you can "wake up" and decide who you want to be and what you want to do with your life.  It's a revolution against old habits you don't want in your life! Join the resistance!!!!!
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Episode 21: Undoing Negative Muscle Memory or When Your Body has a Mind of Its Own

Help Me Be Me is an emotional toolkit for creating positive change in yourself. I like to think of it as self-help for people who hate self-help. I'm Sarah May, coach/mom/all-around happy person, and these are the tools that work for me in my life. For all of my offerings you can check out YayWithMe.com What I share is my personal opinion. It's not a diagnosis for treatment or a substitute for professional help. If you're suffering, please reach out to your local emergency services or call 9-1-1. Music theme created by www.BookerHillMusic.com