Well-Being
How Mindfulness Works to Break Bad Habits
Habits are formed and strengthened as we journey through a continuous loop seeking to satisfy our urges. Here's how mindfulness interrupts the cycle to break bad habits.
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About Dr. Brewer: Judson Brewer MD PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. A professor and researcher at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, he has developed clinically proven app-based training to help people with emotional eating (www.goeatrightnow.com) and anxiety (www.unwindinganxiety.com). He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
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Focus
The Science of Curiosity
The thrill of curiosity can motivate us to learn—or it can send us hurtling into rabbit holes and habit loops. Dr. Judson Brewer breaks down what this inner drive has to do with shifting our most ingrained habits.
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Anxiety
How to Break a Habit, According to Neuroscience
If you’re having a hard time improving your habits, says neuroscientist Judson Brewer, tuning in to your inner reward system is key.
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Calm
A 2-Minute Practice to Calm Anxiety and Nurture Curiosity
Anxiety often contributes to keeping us stuck in habits we don’t want. This mindfulness practice lets us soothe racing thoughts by letting us tune in to embodied awareness.
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Break Bad Habits
Tame Your Feelings of Anxiety
By understanding the stress and anxiety habit loops present in our lives, we can eventually ease ourselves into different behaviors around these difficult emotions.
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Break Bad Habits
Unhook From Your Phone Addiction
Our phones are masterfully designed weapons of mass distraction, and it’s so easy to get sucked into that distraction—Here's how we can regain control of our attention.
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Break Bad Habits
Rewire Your Food Cravings and Triggers
Bringing awareness to our food cravings can change our relationship to them—we can be with that craving rather than be caught up in it.
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Break Bad Habits
Hack Your Brain’s Habit Loops
We form habits in a very specific way, which is great news. It means this is a system that can be observed, examined, and even altered. But first we need to understand how it all works.
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