Today’s Temporary Changes Become Tomorrow’s New Traits

The more you recognize, dis-identify with, and disengage from your acts, the less frequently you will go into them. I found this to be true without realizing the neurological process that supports it. Research on the brain has demonstrated that all of the changes we make through mindful awareness, which at first are temporary,

6 Oct, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Step 3

Step 3: Recognize the Clues That Help You Disengage from Your Acts It’s challenging to recognize and dis-identify with the mental chatter associated with our acts. We’re so used to the voice in our head talking to us in certain ways—the ways that it is wired to—that we may succumb to the programmed message that

2 Oct, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Payoffs or Heavy Costs?

I’ve mentioned that our acts have three payoffs, but are these really payoffs? By becoming mindfully aware of and reflecting on my acts, I can now see that they don’t deliver real payoffs; they’re just payoffs for my machinery. They keep me trapped in my old fixed way of being and reinforce the neural

25 Sep, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate— My “poor me” act

When I learned the concept of acts, I set myself the task of mindfully observing my thoughts and behavior to learn what my acts were. I began to see, for example, that in situations in which I felt shamed and blamed, the chatter in my mind was something like, “How could that person start

22 Sep, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Step 2

18 Sep, 2014
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