As the repercussions of COVID-19 continue to impact on our daily lives, the habits that formed our health routines, caring for both the physical and mental side of well-being, are being disrupted.
Before lockdown, we all had a routine. Or rather, we all had routines. They varied from travelling to work every day to what we ate for breakfast and even where we ate breakfast – at home, on the train, at the office. Some of them were so ingrained in our everyday life that they were habits that we didn’t even have to think about, we carried them out automatically.
But as many of these routines, these habits, have been broken, we risk harming our mental and physical well-being. But how do we create new habits?
Here we consider the psychology of habit.
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