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- Investigating and Rewriting the Self-schema, Identifying my Values, Goal-Setting and Creating a Vision for the Future
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Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry
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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Tagged acetylcholine, addiction, addictive, anxiety, avena, binge, brain chemistry, carb addiction, carbohydrate, carbohydrate addiction, challenge, control, cost, cost benefit, cross-sensitization, dopamine, eating style, edward spruit, endogenous reward system, energy, fat, food addiction, glucose, health, high carb food, high-carb, hoebel, hypofrontality, metabolism, norden, norepinephrine, numbing taste, Nutrition, opioid, paleo, primal, proteins, reward, reward system, serotonin, stable energy levels, sugar addiction, taste bud, withdrawal
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Utilize Everything, Take Risk, Don’t Settle, Practice over Perfection & Words of Thanks
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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Tagged abuse, action, action orientation, action practice, addiction, attached, authentic, authenticity, behavior, burning desire, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, cognitive dissonance, comfort zone, completion, context, daily practice, dan millman, desire, desires, disappointed, disappointment, edward spruit, emotional processing, energy, excitement, exploration, exploring, focus, frame, framing, fruits of labor, goal, goal setting, goals, health, identity, identity is dynamic, integrity, interpreting, investing energy, kanye west, label, leverage, mediocrity, mental tension, outcome, outcome attachment, outcome dependence, perfection, personal development, pook, practice, predictability, psychology, responsibility, result, result orientation, risk, safe, safety, self-change, self-help, self-schema, settling, social psychology, social science, stress, take risk, taking action, tension, tetris, thanks, time, utilization, utilize, Vegeta, werner erhard, what I want
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Investigating and Rewriting the Self-schema, Identifying my Values, Goal-Setting and Creating a Vision for the Future
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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Tagged abuse, action plan, addiction, alex treasure, anxiety, authenticity, burning desire, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, cognitive dissonance, completion, daily goals, desire, destination, direction, dogmatic, dynamic, dynamic self-schema, edward spruit, emotional processing, energy, examining, excitement, exploration, fear, future, goal, goal setting, goals, health, how i am being, humor, hurt, identifying values, identity, identity is dynamic, integrity, mood altering, optimism, organizing, pain, past, personality, planning, positive emotions, positivity, practice, presence, psychology, purpose, responsibility, rewriting, rigid, schema, self, self improvement, self-change, self-concept, self-enhancement, self-expression, self-limiting, self-schema, sexuality, social science, stress, trapped hurt, trauma, value, values, vision, werner erhard, who i am, write, writing, written plans
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Establishing Healthy Boundaries, Emotional Completion, Diagnosing Addictions and Removing Lifestyle Stressors
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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Tagged abuse, acceptance, addiction, anger, anxiety, boundaries, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, comfort zone, completion, creativity, danny way, eating style, eckhart tolle, edward spruit, emotional abuse, emotional bullshit, emotional completion, emotional needs, emotional processing, emotional state, energy, experience, exploration, expressing anger, fear, feel good, feeling good, food, health, hurt, identity, identity is dynamic, kicking the dog, long-term, mental abstraction, mood alter, mood altering, mood state, napoleon hill, neurotransmitter, neurotransmitter debt, neurotransmitter receptor, neurotransmitter reserves, pain, personal boundary, post-traumatic stress, presence, psychology, quitting addictions, responsibility, self-change, self-schema, short-term, social interaction, social needs, social psychology, social science, stress, stress management, stressor, trapped hurt, trauma, traumatic experience, werner erhard
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Getting my Needs met in a Quality manner & Suggestions for Practice
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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Tagged abraham maslow, abuse, addiction, agriculture, air, anxiety, avocado, belly, bench press, bicep curl, birdseed, breath, breathing, broccoli, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, chin-up, coconut, comfort zone, complete protein, deadlift, deep sleep, doug mcguff, drink, eating habits, eating style, edward spruit, energy, fasting, fat, fat storage, fat stores, fat storing, fish, fly, food, fruit juice, fruits, getting needs met, glucagon, glucogen, glucose, glycogen, gnolls, goals, grain, gym, health, hierarchy of needs, hormones, identity, identity is dynamic, insulin, inverse row, joint, kelly starret, leafy greens, lean muscle mass, light, losing weight, lung capacity, lungs, mark sisson, maslow, meeting needs, metabolism, mobility, mood altering, muscle, nap, need, nerd fitness, Nutrition, nuts, olive, organic, oxygen, paleo, paleolithic, power nap, press, primal, proteins, psychology, pull-up, quality of sleep, research, responsibility, reverse row, rob wolff, robert lustig, self-change, self-schema, shelter, sleep wake cycle, social science, squat, stable energy levels, strength, stress, sun, sunlight, training, vegetable juice, vegetables, water, werner erhard, wheat, work-out, yam
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Summary, Completion and the Capacity for Challenge
The incomplete needs company In a state of unprocessed past hurts, the wounded individual doesn’t feel whole. Like I wrote earlier: Deep down, the child knows that something just isn’t right. This intuitive feel is spot on as the child’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged abuse, addiction, adventure, amount of challenge, anxiety, authentic experience, authenticity, blind spot, book series, bored, boring, bradshaw, capacity for challenge, challenge, co-dependence, comfort zone, completion, conclusion, consolidation, creating space, edward, edward spruit, emotional completion, emotional current, emotional energy, emotional pain, emotional processing, emotional significance, energy, engagement, erhard, experience, exploration, fear, fear of intimacy, feel better, flow, growth, healing, hurt, identity, identity is dynamic, insecurity, integrity, intimacy, john bradshaw, lacuna, life lessons, lifestyle, long-term, mihaly ciszenmihaly, mood altering, need for exploration, need for predictability, neediness, overwhelmed, pain, physical energy, predictability, processing pain, psychology, remedy, resistance training, risk, safe haven, self-change, shame, shaming, short-term, significance, skateboarding, social disclosure, social science, space to be, state boost, stress, stressor, summation, taking on new challenges, therapy, trapped hurt, trauma, vulnerability, vulnerable, weather, weather conditions, weight I'm carrying, werner erhard, wounds
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The Native Human Eating Style: a Practical Guide to Paleo
The Native Human Eating Style: A Practical Guide to Paleo In the previous articles on Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates, I established the following main points: Eating food is for gaining energy, as well as providing the body with the essential … Continue reading →
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Tagged asparagus, avocado, berries, birdseed, blood glucose, cabbage, carrots, cheese, chicken, chocolate, coconut, disruptive hormone functioning, disruptive metabolism, eating style, eggs, emotional state, energy, fasting, fat, fat burning, fatty fish, feedlot, food, free fatty acids, free-range, fruits, gaining muscle, glucagon, glucose, glycogen, grassbutter, health, high carb food, high-carb diet, insulin, lettuce, liver, losing weight, mackerel, metabolism, muscle, neurotransmitter, numbing taste, Nutrition, nuts, omega-3, omega-6, organic meat, paleo, primal, proteins, rapeseed, replenishing glycogen, ruminants, sensitivity, solid baseline energy levels, stable energy levels, starch, steady blood glucose, sugar water, taste buds, vegetables
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Sugar: a Teaspoon, not a Bucket
Sugar: One teaspoon, not a bucket In this article I will share what place carbohydrates have in the native human diet, based upon how our bodies digest and process them. The title of this article starts with sugar and that’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged beta oxidation, birdseed, blood glucose, citric acid cycle, de novo lipogenesis, disruptive hormone functioning, disruptive metabolism, eating style, energy, fasting, fat, fat burning, food, free fatty acids, gaining muscle, glucagon, glucolysis, glucose, glycogen, glycolysis, health, high carb food, high-carb diet, hyperactivity, insulin, krebs cycle, liver, losing weight, metabolism, muscle, Nutrition, paleo, primal, proteins, proteolysis, replenishing glycogen, slowed down metabolism, solid baseline energy levels, stable energy levels, steady blood glucose, sugar
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Fat: The Central Macronutrient
In this article I will describe some basics of the bodies metabolization (how it gains energy) and will point out why fats are the cornerstone of a healthy, efficient diet (why fats are the central macronutrient). Gaining energy from food … Continue reading →
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Tagged beta oxidation, blood glucose, citric acid cycle, de novo lipogenesis, eating style, energy, fasting, fat, fat burning, food, free fatty acids, gaining muscle, glucagon, glucose, glycogen, glycolysis, health, hyperactivity, insulin, krebs cycle, liver, losing weight, metabolism, muscle, Nutrition, paleo, primal, proteins, proteolysis, slowed down metabolism, stable energy levels
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