一个简单的方式戒掉坏习惯（英语精读笔记）｜DAY 3

Maybe in our teenage years, we were a nerd at school, and we see those rebel kids outside smoking and we think, “Hey, I want to be cool.” So we start smoking. The Marlboro Man wasn’t a dork, and that was no accident.See cool, smoke to be cool, feel good. Repeat.Trigger, behavior, reward. And each time we do this, we learn to repeat the process and it becomes a habit. So later, feeling stressed out triggers that urge to smoke a cigarette or to eat something sweet.

也许在我们年轻的时候，曾经也是个书呆子，我们看到这些叛逆的小子在外面抽烟，我们就在想，”嘿！我也想要耍酷“于是我们开始抽烟。所以万宝路的男人看起来不呆，这并不意外。看到别人耍酷，抽烟耍酷，感觉良好，重复。触发、行为、奖励。每一次我们这样做，我们学会了去重复这个过程，并养成了习惯。所以之后，感觉有压力的时候，就会触发欲望去抽烟或是去吃一些甜的东西。

Now, with these same brain processes, we’ve gone from learning to survive to literally killing ourselves with these habits. Obesity and smoking are among the leading preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the world.

这些相同的大脑过程，让我们经历了从学习到生存，到简直是用这些习惯在残害着我们自己的过程。肥胖和抽烟是全世界数一数二会引发病残及死亡的可预防疾病。

So back to my breath. What if instead of fighting our brains, or trying to force ourselves to pay attention, we instead tapped into this natural, reward-based learning process…but added a twist? What if instead we just got really curious about what was happening in our momentary experience?

所以，回到我的呼吸。假设我们不要再跟脑袋去抗争，也不要再强逼自己去专注，而是借助这个天然的、以奖励为本的学习过程…….然后稍微改变扭转一下？假如我们变得很好奇,想了解自己的瞬间体验到底是怎样一回事？