"5"^^ . "Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park is a Nurock song from Mungyodance 2. The BG is a modified screenshot of the official video."@en . "It is said that we are creatures of habit -- i.e. we like to persist in doing that which is routine and familiar, rather than what is different, fresh, and new. Sri Aurobindo tells us that this is due to our material, body consciousness, which tends to remain the same, rather than progress: to repeat the same things, rather than take fresh, new initiative. And yet we can learn to be more open to change in our moment-to-moment lives. In any given circumstance, we can become aware of our fixidity, our reluctance, our unchanging habit, and instead take a fresh, new tact. And when we break that routine and pattern, not only do we experience the joy of a fresh moment, but we open the portals of possibility, enabling sudden good fortune to come our way. Let me illustrate with a recent experience. For several years, I have been self-publishing my books through Lulu Press, a wonderful online system that is an alternative to traditional book production. An author goes to their website, supplies the manuscript file, selects a look for the covers, and Lulu produces a book template available to the public. The consumer can then purchase a volume to order, 1 or 100, and have it shipped within a few days. It is a major revolution in the book-publishing field. For several years, I have had little problems using the service. I would simply follow the steps and voila! new iterations of my books would be made available to the public. Recently, however, I have been trying to publish a new book, \u2018Higher Consciousness, Infinite Success\u2019, a compendium of the dozen or so major articles I have written at the Growth Online site, and have run into several problems. The main one is that when I send my Microsoft Word file to the site, the Lulu wizard would not accept it. I figured that it might be an error in their system, or that there is too much traffic at their site, or some other factor. For a month, I struggled to get a version of the file uploaded to Lulu so I could complete the book publishing cycle. Recently I simply resigned myself to the plight, hoping it would self-correct down the line. Then I recalled that several associates of mine were using the Mozilla Firefox web browser instead of Microsoft\u2019s Internet Explorer. It was something I had never tried before, nor did I see a reason to. I sometimes even wondered why my friends were using it. I heard it was a little faster, but that did not seem enough to take me away from Internet Explorer. In any case, one morning, frustrated with my lack of success in uploading my latest book, and not having gotten a credible response from Lulu, I decided to download the Firefox browser. When I loaded it up, it did indeed seem to be somewhat faster, though that still seemed only a relatively minor benefit for continuing with its use. Then I went to the Lulu site and tried uploading my manuscript through Firefox instead of the normal Internet Explorer. A moment later, I was shocked to see that not only did my manuscript file take the first time around, but I was able to get through all the publishing steps in record time! Later in the week, I made further changes to the manuscript, and was very quickly able to create a revision at Lulu. For me, it was a marvel to behold, as weeks if not months of frustration had now suddenly ended. Even as I was having the experience, I saw the great life response benefit of embracing change in the details of life: of taking a different path, rather than following old habits and routines. When we perform an act in a fresh, new way, rather than in the tired old way, life immediately opens before us. When we get off the dime, and move away from our physical consciousness that is fixed and wants to repeat, we open the portals of possibility. It was another wonderful reminder that every moment we are offered the opportunity to break old habits and quickly attract the infinite to our doorstep. --Roy Posner 14:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC) H"@en . . "Breaking the Habit"@en . "1"^^ . . "no"@en . "Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park is a Nurock song from Mungyodance 2. The BG is a modified screenshot of the official video."@en . "2"^^ . "yes"@en . "no"@en . . . . "no"@en . "no"@en . "2009-01-16"^^ . . . "Breaking the Habit"@en . . "Nu Metal"@en . . "no"@en . "no"@en . "no"@en . "1"^^ . "Mungyodance 2"@en . . . "no"@en . . . "no"@en . . "Video Length:"@en . "0"^^ . . "no"@en . "no"@en . . "2009"^^ . "2003"^^ . "5"^^ . . . "Next Episode:"@en . "306992104"^^ . . "no"@en . "\"Ian's First Girlfriend\""@en . "Episode:"@en . . "2"^^ . "no"@en . . "Linkin Park"@en . . . . "Easy, Med, Hard, PRO"@en . "\"Breaking the Habit\" is an electronica-influenced song by the nu metal band Linkin Park, from their 2003 album Meteora. It was released as the sixth and final single from the album in 2004. It became the fifth consecutive single from Meteora to reach #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, a feat unmatched by any other artist in the history of that chart. It was also the second single from the album to reach #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was a pop hit, peaking at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 7, 2004. Breaking the Habit features many electronics, live strings and guitar. There are no distorted guitar riffs, and it is the first single released by Linkin Park to include no vocals from Mike Shinoda. A common misconception about this song is that it was written by lead singer Chester Bennington, when in fact, band member Mike Shinoda was the original writer. It is a common idea that it was written about Bennington due to his extended drug abuse issues, although Shinoda began writing the song before he met Bennington. The rumour has its roots in Bennington's reluctance to play the song at early live shows, because he was able to relate to it so closely. In an issue of Kerrang, Mike Shinoda mentioned that the song was originally going to be an instrumental track over three minutes long, but was convinced by the band to change it."@en . . . "It is said that we are creatures of habit -- i.e. we like to persist in doing that which is routine and familiar, rather than what is different, fresh, and new. Sri Aurobindo tells us that this is due to our material, body consciousness, which tends to remain the same, rather than progress: to repeat the same things, rather than take fresh, new initiative. --Roy Posner 14:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC) H"@en . "Breaking the Habit\n200px"@en . "no"@en . "yes"@en . . . . "Previous Episode:"@en . "327.0"^^ . . . "\"Breaking the Habit\" is an electronica-influenced song by the nu metal band Linkin Park, from their 2003 album Meteora. It was released as the sixth and final single from the album in 2004. It became the fifth consecutive single from Meteora to reach #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, a feat unmatched by any other artist in the history of that chart. It was also the second single from the album to reach #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was a pop hit, peaking at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 7, 2004."@en . . . "no"@en . "Breaking the Habit is a song by Linkin Park which is about someone who has the tendency to do things to hurt himself physically and mentally. \"You all assume I'm safe here in my room unless I try to start again\" - this means he spends a lot of time in his room, where everyone thinks he can't do anything to hurt himself, but little do they know that he could at any time start hurting himself without them knowing. He regrets all the things he has done or had done to him in the past and he constantly picks himself apart for it. \"I don't wanna be the one the battles always choose cause inside I realize I'm the one confused,\" is saying he gets a lot of problems thrown at him and he doesn't understand why this always seems to happen to him. (thanks, Elise - guelph, Canada) More lyric analysis: \"Clutching my cure, I tightly lock the door\" - The cure for emotional pain is to cause physical pain. \"You all assume I'm safe here in my room, unless I try to start again\" - That is showing that the person prefers solitude, and although others think he's safest by himself, it's really when he's worst off, because he will start his self harm all over again. Also, he doesn't seem to understand his pain and all he wants is for it to go away, but the only known way for it to go away is to cause more. It's a vicious cycle. (thanks, Kalee - Wichita, KS) Mike Shinoda had been trying to write a song around this lyrical idea for for over five years but nothing seemed to work. While the album was being put together, Mike began working on an interlude, crossing a digitally manipulated beat with strings and piano. Brad and Joe suggested that Mike make the small interlude into a whole song. The piece was extended to three minutes and sixteen seconds and went under the name \"Drawing.\" When Mike took it home to write lyrics, it only took him less than 2 hours to get the song that he was trying to write for years. With some finishing touches of live piano and live strings, the song was finally complete - six years in the making. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ) Shinoda said this was inspired by the multitudes of fans who have expressed to the band how their music has helped them. Whether it be with depression, drugs, low self-esteem, traumas... or anything really. It's very much about the reciprocity between the band and the fans. This won the Viewer's Choice award at the MTV Video Music awards. The video was animated by Studio Gonzo. (thanks, Allie - Santa Rosa, CA, for above 2) Mike Shinoda on shoutweb.com: \"This was going to be an instrumental track that was 10 minutes long. The guys convinced me to turn it into a full song. I'm proud of this song in a lot of ways. I put a lot of work into it. I just think it's really powerful. Chester's performance is one of his best. Lyrically, it's kind of just about getting away from the parts of you that you do not like. It goes into great deal about that type of situation. The things about our lyrics in general is that we spend so much time on them that there is no way I can tell you in conversation any better than the actual lyrics. If I sit here and think up something, that's an off-the-top-of-my-head summary of what those lyrics are about whereas those lyrics took five years to do. So those lyrics are the most accurate depiction of what that's about, not what I can tell you.\""@en . . "Breaking the Habit is the second important single by wannabe cool band Linkin Park, released in 2004 off of their second studio album, entitled Meteora, released way back in 2003."@en . "\"Breaking the Habit\" is a Smosh video, uploaded on January 16, 2009."@en . "200"^^ . "2.0"^^ . "Breaking the Habit is a song by Linkin Park which is about someone who has the tendency to do things to hurt himself physically and mentally. \"You all assume I'm safe here in my room unless I try to start again\" - this means he spends a lot of time in his room, where everyone thinks he can't do anything to hurt himself, but little do they know that he could at any time start hurting himself without them knowing. He regrets all the things he has done or had done to him in the past and he constantly picks himself apart for it. \"I don't wanna be the one the battles always choose cause inside I realize I'm the one confused,\" is saying he gets a lot of problems thrown at him and he doesn't understand why this always seems to happen to him. (thanks, Elise - guelph, Canada)"@en . "no"@en . . "Meteora"@en . "no"@en . . "210"^^ . "Male"@en . . . . "Season:"@en . . . "8040000"^^ . "\"Breaking the Habit\" is a Smosh video, uploaded on January 16, 2009."@en . "2"^^ . . "199.0"^^ . . "no"@en . "Linkin Park"@en . . . "Breaking The Habit de Linkin Park: Meteora."@es . . . . "no"@en . . . . . "FF"@en . "3"^^ . "no"@en . "Breaking the Habit"@en . "Meteora.png"@en . "3"^^ . "DLC"@en . "no"@en . "Characters featured"@en . "Views :"@en . "no"@en . "Joe Hahn and Kazuto Nakazawa"@en . 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