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Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry

Posted on June 14, 2012 by edwards87

Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry In the previous article I eluded to the fact that high-carb diets can disrupt our brain chemistry. This will be the subject of this article. In the practical guide … Continue reading →

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Utilize Everything, Take Risk, Don’t Settle, Practice over Perfection & Words of Thanks

Posted on February 24, 2012 by edwards87

Principle: Utilize Everything & Take more Risk In changing behaviour, there will be an element of uncertainty and challenge involved in going outside of the ranges of how I normally act (my comfort zone/safe haven). This visceral feeling of tension … Continue reading →

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Investigating and Rewriting the Self-schema, Identifying my Values, Goal-Setting and Creating a Vision for the Future

Posted on February 22, 2012 by edwards87

Practice: Investigating and Rewriting the Self-schema In Part III, I suggested an action exercise on writing out what is currently in your Self-schema. Writing out the content of my Self-schema makes me aware of what kind of a person I … Continue reading →

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Establishing Healthy Boundaries, Emotional Completion, Diagnosing Addictions and Removing Lifestyle Stressors

Posted on February 20, 2012 by edwards87

Socio-emotional Needs In addition to the basic human needs for air, light, water, food, sleep, strength and mobility, we also have social and emotional needs. As social animals, we have a need for social acceptance and we like to relate, … Continue reading →

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Getting my Needs met in a Quality manner & Suggestions for Practice

Posted on February 17, 2012 by edwards87

Principle: Getting my needs met Human beings have a variety of needs, the most basic of which concern those that directly concern our survival. Oxygen (air), sleep and water are the most important and immediate, whereas light, food (energy and nutrition) … Continue reading →

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Integrity, Self-trust, Locus of Control and Being with the Weirdness

Posted on February 15, 2012 by edwards87

Principle: Integrity and Self-trust “Without integrity, nothing works.” ~ Erhard, Jensen & Zaffron, 2009 ~ According to Werner Erhard, an important aspect of integrity is keeping my word. Keeping my word means doing what I say I will. When I … Continue reading →

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Smart & Systematic Implementation: Enter the Self-Change Project

Posted on February 13, 2012 by edwards87

Part IV: Principles & Daily Practices for Self-Change “Opinions are of very little value, it’s your commitments (what you do with your opinions) that count.” ~ Wayne Dyer ~ “Your real values and your true beliefs are communicated by your … Continue reading →

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How Context influences my Behaviour

Posted on February 10, 2012 by edwards87

How Context influences Behaviour “It is not what happens to you that matters, but how you RESPOND to what happens to you that determines your whole life.” ~ Brian Tracy ~ According to David Hawkins, in any situation there are … Continue reading →

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Disidentifying with the Self-schema & Changing Behaviour

Posted on February 8, 2012 by edwards87

Define Life from the inside out “Man shouldn’t ask what the meaning of his Life is, but recognize that it is he who is asked.” ~ Viktor Frankl ~ Intuitively, when we are young we look around for guidance and … Continue reading →

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Setting High Standards & the Actual and Ideal Self

Posted on February 6, 2012 by edwards87

Accepting Responsibility “The starting point of maturity is the realization that no one is coming to the rescue. Everything you are or ever will be is entirely up to you.” ~ Brian Tracy ~ If I want to make a … Continue reading →

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