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Think about how we maintain our skin by exfoliating on a regular basis to create a clean environment for you skin grow and be healthy. You can exfoliate your bad habits the same way.

All those underlining bad habits that sit below the surface need to be systematically cleansed and removed over a period of time.

If left unexfoliated, it makes it hard for you skin to remove those dead cells and this can harvest a lot of nasty germs and bacteria. Similarity if we don’t exfoliate those undesirable habits or thoughts, then this leads to a proliferation of the bad habits that will continue until they have been at addressed.

So don’t be too hard on yourself regarding immediately removing these bad habits as they were created over a period of time and require similar period to be reprogrammed and replaced with good stuff.

So you have to continuously exfoliate those thoughts, reprogram those neurological pathways.

Quite often these habits may develop from an incident that happened some time ago, your feelings of self-worth and self-esteem may have been compromised.

All these bad habits that require exfoliating are what I call junk thoughts that circulate around in the mind, they can quickly overtake and have them commanding role in our actions.

Think of your mind like an orchestra, you are the conductor in control of your thoughts.
There are different sections of the orchestra, woodwind, brass, strings and percussion as you have in your mind, happiness, sadness, joy, fear, greed and many more forming part of the overall sound produced.

The great thing is that you are the conductor and can choose which thoughts to include. Imagine if you were Beethoven composing the 5th symphony and all of the sudden you heard the sounds of tribal drums banging out the bass in the background.
Now just because beethoven heard these sounds does he need to take ownership and include them in this composition? They would be dismissed as Beethoven has the control over what is composed, what is appropriate to the piece for the overall feeling and sound.

Now fast forward to 2009, you are saying to yourself that you really wont to lose weight, feel healthier and have the energy to play with you children, yet in the background all of these random thoughts are circulating: you’re hopeless, you’re fat, you’re a loser, who am I kidding, it’s too hard, why bother.

Like a conductor we must control which thoughts we keep and take ownership for while the junk thoughts get thrown in the rubbish bin.
The great thing is we can control the thoughts the same way a conductor controls the orchestra, imagine if in the opening sonata that the trombone player starts to play either at the wrong time or something which is not part of the musical piece, what happens? Is the trombone player allowed to continue or is he swiftly ordered to cease playing?

Similarly take control of the junk thoughts and only keep the positive thoughts just like the orchestra take control.