Bad habits

[Polama]

I think that is a fine thing to do. Yes, you'll be stronger in correspondence go than real-time, but ranks between locations don't line up anyways. You aren't training your visualization skills as much as you could be, but many players play on instinct and don't read things out either.

When replaying a commented professional game, the commentary will often include 15+ move sequences to explain why some move wasn't selected. I like to play out the sequence, remove it from the board, and then try to replay it in my mind. I'm not nearly strong enough to find it on my own, but this creates a nice opportunity to say "to be real strong, I should be able to visualize that sequence and find the reasons deviations from it aren't better", and then try. You could probably apply that technique here: play out local sequences, choose your move, then look at the current board and recall the different paths you tried.

I'd try to rely on your own reading whenever you can. So play out 5 moves of a capturing race, and then see if you can figure out the end from there. Also, you want to use this to understand shapes. So it's not just a mechanical depth first search, but a chance to learn more about the position you're in, playing with different variations and then going back to the start and reviewing what you've learned about how the stones are interacting.

[Nordico]

I'll heed your advice then and try to play (lose most likely), without using analyze tools, as much games as I can. Be warned: if after that 100th game I still feel awkward and insecure, I will be back here demanding more advice =P.