2.5: Changing Habits

Forming habits

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• This is how  we have conceptualisd Habit change in our LiFE functional-integrated exercise program.
•  First, articulating an action plan and then visualising doing it within a specific situation.
•  In repetition we begin to associate the environmental or situational cue with the action.
•  If done enough times to strengthen the association between the cue and the action then it becomes automatic.
• Habit  may initially be triggered by having an action plan, but over time that conscious planning becomes less necessary and the action can become more automatic.

Gardner 2015
Clemson & Munro 2016