The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

by Alex Korb

That may sound like gibberish, but it means that the prefrontal cortex is able to modulate your habits and impulses. That gives you more control over your own life so that you’re not controlled solely by your past experiences or current environment.

On a similar note, I'm trying to help my dog stop pulling her leash when we walk. I can only do that if I stop, address her, change directions, and start walking again. It breaks her out of her habit of pulling, for several seconds. Of course, she starts pulling again in another hundred feet (the power of habit) and we have to repeat the break cycle. I don't know how long it will take for me to help her break her pulling habit.