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If you’ve ever struggled with bad habits, unhealthy habits, or patterns you know don’t serve you well, or others around you, then do we have the habit-changing show for you! Today I’ll be talking with Hugh Byrne, PhD, a guiding teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, a mindfulness meditator for over 30 years, and the author of The Here and Now Habit. Today we’ll talk about mindfully breaking habits, how to begin, how to catch them, how to rewire, and what to do to keep them from coming back. That plus we’ll talk about surfing urges, painted tigers, pick pockets, blowing your horn in traffic, and why if you want to get to Newcastle, you wouldn’t start from here. Questions and Topics Include: How he began mindful meditation in the mid-80’s. First read The Way of Zen by Alan Watts. How he had an opening up experience many years ago. How his meditation practice got started Why 1/3 to ½ of all behaviors are habits What exactly are habits? Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow – System 1,