By Suzanne LeVert
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And there are no doubt several other crimes and misdemeanors that are completely off-limits. In most cases, though, balance and moderation are the keys. Suzanne has a couple of friends who love to gamble. They go to Atlantic City on the same middle Saturday every month, to play blackjack at the same table with the same dealer. They take the same amount of money with them ($300, which they lose with astonishing regularity) every time. This night out has become a habit. It isn't a bad habit, because they set limits and stick to them.
To keep smoking at work, he walked down three flights of stairs, smoked in the heat, the cold, the snow, the rain, and then walked back up three flights of stairs to his officesometimes four or five times a day. He learned to scout airports for nooks and crannies safe for smoking. He started going to a different restaurant, one with terrible food but a more liberal smoking policy. He did this for years. Finally, he realized that if he could manage to change his life in such fundamental ways to maintain a habit, he really did have the strength and commitment to break the habit.
Freud believed that in order to protect ourselves from anxiety, the id, the most primitive part of our unconscious, motivates us to take action against situations or emotions that challenge or threaten us. html[21/03/2011 02:47:43] page_20 One ineffective but relatively simple way we do that is by performing one (or two or three) of any number of actions that can, over time, become habits. And if those habits prevent us from meeting our goals or maintaining a secure sense of self, they're bad habits: They may relieve stress in the short term, but they also have negative side effects that crop up in the future.