Neuroscientists now know that our habit making behaviors are processed in a part of the brain called the basal ganglia. This part of the brain is in control of voluntary motor movements, procedural learning, habit learning, eye movement, emotions, and cognition.

It's important to note that decisions are made in a different part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex. As soon as a behavior becomes a habit cycle, the decision making part of the brain goes to sleep. This is why it is difficult to break free from an addiction, which is what people call a negative habit cycle. 

In order to break free from negative habit cycles we must first understand how they work. 

There are 3 steps to a repeated cycle: 

1. Cue/trigger that tells the brain to go into automatic mode.

2. The behavior goes into action.

3. Then a reward which is something the brain likes that helps it remember and completes the          cycle. 

So the key is to first recognize the trigger and the reward which will help to reveal the behavior in the middle. Then we can plan ahead and when the trigger occurs we can be purposeful with the behavior and create a new repeated cycle that is beneficial, which we like to refer to as Freedom Cycles and Connection Cycles.