Habits and Fear of Change
I have now talked with many a patient about changing up the way they do nutrition but unless there is considerable pain, emotional or otherwise, chances are there may be difficulty
We'll give it lip service especially to the doc who is the authority figure because we don't want to disappoint her/him
The White Elephant
Now this lethargy to change is not a judgement(an 0pinion with emotion) but a simple fact of human existence
Why is this? Change invokes fear of moving from our comfort zone And this is not right or wrong! This is not moralizing about our conduct It's simply the case of us being human and walking on this planet
I think the most important aspect of this fear of change issue is recognition that it is present in the first place It's like the white elephant in the living room Nobody seems to want to talk about why we have such problems
It's true that change is hard So let's own it
As Charlie Schultz's character would say, "We have met the enemy and it is us!"
It's becoming increasingly clear that the hardest thing we do in life is change our lifestyle patterns, particularly around nutrition
So this is the problem We would like to change the way we do things but we don't
How Come?
In the ensuing days we'll go into more depth about this issue because it gets to what I believe is a major stumblinig block when it comes to this concept of an evolving state of health
In order to evolve our health we have to be willing to embrace this fear of change since evolution requires us to trade in our current lifestyle habits for healthier ones
Until tomorrow: Neglecting White Elephants To health as a Skill Love DrBill
