The Interplay between Mindful Awareness and the Brain as “Anticipation Machine”

Let’s look at what’s happening in our brains when we operate on automatic pilot that allows our Organizing Principles to run us, no matter how dysfunctional these beliefs may be and how disabling a bind they create for us. Because of the brain’s very nature and structure, we are programmed to react. That’s what we

20 Nov, 2014
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Reflect on Your Behavior to See What Causes You to Act as You Do

Besides noticing the difference between your beliefs and attitudes and those of other people, another way to uncover your Organizing Principles is to reflect on your behavior to figure out the beliefs and core issues that cause you to act as you do. Start with observing the specific things you do routinely. For example,

3 Nov, 2014
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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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My Favorite Books – Part I

I’ve always loved books, both fiction and nonfiction. In previous blogs I’ve written about some of my favorites, and this week and next I’m going to share a more extensive list of books that have inspired and enriched me. My Early Favorites When I was a kid, my dad read me Aesop’s Fables, illustrated

16 Oct, 2014
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