“The chains of habit are to light to feel until they are to strong to break”
Man is a habitual being. Part of our make up is that the longer we engage in behavior the more it becomes our nature. If you studied psychology you probably remember Pavlov’s dogs. As part of an elaborate experiment on human nature he was able to manipulate a dogs response by continually using the same stimuli. Pavlov noticed that whenever a dog came to its food, as he was preparing the food it would salivate. He began to ring a bell every time he fed the dog. Soon he was able to make the dogs salivate even in the absence of food if he simply rang the same bell. Although man is a vastly superior creation than the dog, we nevertheless have a very similar mechanism in our brain. View full article »