Some thoughts about habits

After reading for a couple of hours, I decided to go to the library to use my laptop and hopefully do something productive. After meditating on what to do with my time while on the computer but with no internet connection, I opened my Kindle and started looking at quotes from past books in order to create a post for Lucid Liberty, a project I have not invested time in for the last couple of months.

After reading a couple of highlights, I noticed the latest book I had used for Lucid Liberty posts (as inspiration) was “The Science Delusion” by Rupert Sheldrake. So I moved on to the next book, “Encuentra a tu Persona Vitamina.”

As a consequence, I surprised myself and connected some dots from the book I had read beforehand and from both mentioned books.

Rupert Sheldrake explained how the crystallization of particles in one part of the world seems to affect the particles of the same kind in the rest of the world, a process known as Morphic Resonance, and asked multiple questions to materialists, including the following one:

If the laws and constants of nature all came into being at the moment of the Big Bang, how does the universe remember them? Where are they imprinted?

How do you know that the laws of nature are fixed and not evolutionary?

Furthermore, the following quote from “Encuentra a tu persona vitamina” made me think about the concept of habits:

La oxitocina tiene la capacidad de sofocar la zona del cerebro encargada de regular la ansiedad: la amígdala. Esto significa que en una persona con ansiedad o fobia social que es capaz de activar su circuito de oxitocina aliviará la angustia que siente.

This, in a way, follows a few concepts I remember from “Limitless Power” by Anthony Robbins. He stated that our brain perceives reality based on experiences, so for someone with depression, for example, the deeper his brain has become accustomed to thinking negatively, the easier it will be for him to make this habit his default mode. This also applies to anxiety and social phobia or any positive feelings.

Nothing interesting until I remembered the lecture I was having minutes before, a lecture about regressions and how past life experiences affect our present. Quoting Brian Weiss:

“He descubierto que un cuarenta por ciento de mis pacientes necesitan ahondar en otras vidas para resolver sus problemas clínicos actuales. Para casi todos los demás es bastante fructífera la regresión a un período anterior de esta vida. Sin embargo, para ese primer cuarenta por ciento, la clave de la curación es la regresión a vidas anteriores.”

I think this is very insightful due to the nature of habits we have internalized. It would seem like our habits, as we tend to understand them, might not be limited to our current body but to a whole holistic experience we might not be conscious of.

Scientifically, should we have a different word to refer to habits (instead of laws) of the matter?

Psychologically, should we have a different word to refer to habits outside our physical body?

Or, even better, should we have a different word to refer to habits resulting from a different physical object or individual existence?

I think we should.

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