Meditation

The key is to first recognize your habitual patterns. Meditation is a great place to start this practice. We learn to open and relax to the experience as it unfolds. And we become good at sitting with the urge to scratch the itch. That's the secret. The secret was never to get rid of the urge. Thesecret was that we can learn to observe that there's the urge to scratching the itch.That's just an urge. This is how we learn to alter the chain reaction of habitual patterns"