There are multiple reasons why we might feel resistance to getting things done
Have you ever wanted something with all your heart and soul, but can’t seem to find the motivation to complete it? The desire to do it is there, but it’s as if there is a boulder on your back keeping you from taking action. This could be a lifestyle choice like eating healthy, exercising, or davening every day. Or it could be a behavior that you want to minimize such as spending time on your phone or speaking lashon hara.
There are multiple reasons why we might feel resistance to getting things done. One of them is the influence of our emotions on our behavior.
Emotions have a much stronger impact on our behavior than logic. For example, a smoker may have knowledge of the data that shows how smoking negatively impacts our health, but he still chooses to smoke.
The centers in our brain that govern emotion are tightly connected to the centers that manage learning, behavior control, and motivation. Our emotions are the override switch for our behaviors. Even if we know logically that we should or shouldn’t engage in a behavior, our emotions will govern whether or not we do it, no matter how much we understand how these behaviors impact us.
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