Routine is performed without conscious thinking. Ritual requires careful focus and presence of mind. Routine does not require careful focus and presence of mind.
Rituals include daily walks, prayer, meditation, etc. Routine include going to work, preparing for bedtime, etc. She is currently reading for a Masters degree in English. Her areas of interests include literature, language, linguistics and also food. View all posts. For those you love and live with? For those you lead and work with? However, like any and every change, particularly personal change, it takes a firm decision to want to change first.
Then the rest can follow. And by the time we get to the winter solstice, what if you could already be looking back on a fruitful transition? Having enriched your life and that of those dependent on you? What if you could? Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
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Why does the difference matter? Background I love the use of the words purpose and meaning here. Now why does this matter? But do we? Routine versus Ritual. So how do we do that? Immediately my perception of my morning activities changed. Instead of the daily grind, it was me-time.
It was a series of actions I was doing, consciously, to take care of myself. Changing my mindset from a routine to a ritual took no extra time in the morning. But I get a lot more out of the experience.
Do you have any rituals? Do you have a daily routine that you could turn into a ritual? Try it for a week and let me know what you find. In contrast, routines require deliberate practice. Making your bed in the morning, going to the gym, going for a hike every Sunday, meditating are all routines that require to keep on consciously practicing them or they eventually die out. Your brain will not go into automatic mode and walk you to the gym for your weekly HIIT class. Both habits and routines are regular and repeated actions, but habits happen with little or no conscious thought, whereas routines require a higher degree of intention and effort.
With enough time and the right techniques, routines can turn into habits, but it is not an automatic, unconscious process. One needs to want to turn a routine into a habit for the process to happen. In the end, it boils down to the classic habit loop.
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