Pause Your Machinery: A Frog in Hot Water

Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness to learn and master, and this brief written exercise will give you the opportunity to rest, step outside the pattern of passive reading, and

16 Feb, 2015
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My Own Frog-in-Hot-Water Moment

The myths I tell myself are important because they’re some of the factors that held me captive as a frog in hot water. When we’re stuck in frog-in-hot-water situations or relationships, I believe that one or more myths like mine are always contributing to keeping us in the pan while the water continues heating

12 Feb, 2015
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How Do You Become a Frog in Hot Water?

I once heard that if you put a frog in a pan of water, put the pan on the stove, and gradually turn up the heat under the pan, the frog would acclimate to the warm water, continue to get used to it as the water becomes increasingly hot, and would remain in the pan

9 Feb, 2015
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Pause Your Machinery: Organizing and Guiding Principles

5 Feb, 2015
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Some Final Guiding Principles

We can put our bad feelings into others just as they can put theirs into us. This Guiding Principle reminds me that people often dump their problems onto one another. It reminds me to not allow other people to put their bad feelings into me so that I’m stuck with them. I first learned this

2 Feb, 2015
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