Define Your Beliefs

One way to uncover your Organizing Principles is to see if you can define your beliefs (and the behavior that results from them) by contrasting them with the beliefs of other people around you whose attitudes and actions strike you as very different from your own. Analyzing these differences can help you recognize and put

30 Oct, 2014
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Uncover Your Organizing Principles

Take this opportunity to uncover your Organizing Principles, see their limitations, and flip your perspective—all of which will start the process of no longer letting them run you. My Organizing Principles have been: The world isn’t safe; don’t trust. Painful feelings are dangerous. (The corollary is all feelings have the potential to be painful, so

27 Oct, 2014
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Your Perspective Determines your Perceptions

Here’s a visual image that illustrates how your perspective determines your perceptions. It also illustrates that the instructions you receive—which, when you’re on automatic pilot, come from your programming—determine your perspective. Look at the following drawing (designed by early-twentieth century Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin), which can be perceived as a white candlestick against a

23 Oct, 2014
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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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Attunement and Your Mind

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. Whether it’s procrastination or some other habitual behavior that you feel doesn’t serve you, once you’ve identified your pattern it’s easier to make mindful choices that will help you stop automatically following your old

1 Sep, 2014
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