Dallas Bragg argues that breaking mental cycles requires disrupting everyday routines. Small changes like eating with your opposite hand, walking backward to your car, or taking a different route to work force your subconscious to stop running on autopilot and regain conscious control over your behavior.
Here is something very simple that'll help you break free from your cycle, and that is change your routine. And I'm talking very simple, like how you get out of bed. Change the way that you eat, with your left hand maybe. Walk backwards to your car. Drive a different way to work. This seems very oversimplified, but changing up your patterns will get the subconscious second-guessing about what's next. It doesn't know how to anticipate your next move. So guess what? That puts you in charge. Because right now, your subconscious is in charge of everything you do. Because you're in one overall cycle and you're stuck. You are a product, a puppet for your subconscious.
