Stages of Sleep
When you lie down to go to sleep, you actually pass through four stages. By understanding the stages, you can visit website or train yourself to become adept at entering …
Calming Your System
Feeling anxious? Agitated? Frenzied? Upset with yourself? Someone else? Life in general? Finding it hard to think straight? Need to calm down enough to figure out where to go from …
Anti-Insomnia Rules
Rule 1: First it is important that you choose a standard wake-up time and stick to it every day regardless of how much sleep you actually get on any …
Behavior Change for Smart Folks
This is the second in series of articles on professionals who have developed an addictive relationship. The first described the importance of matching the treatment methods with the attributes of …
Thinking Errors
Your emotional and behavioral reactions are greatly influenced by your beliefs and ways of thinking. Below is a list of pathogenic beliefs and cognitive styles. Your ability to prevent relapse …
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Few of us have been taught how to think, and we tend to follow the thinking patterns that emerged when we were children. Alas, some of these primitive thinking patterns …
ADDICTED PROFESSIONALS
This is the first of a series of articles on professionals who have developed an addictive relationship with a substance [such as alcohol or drug] or an activity [such as …
Training the Puppy
We will be collaborating for a relatively brief period of time to achieve the ambitious goal of changing the course of your life. It is quite a challenge, and requires …
Incentives and Excessive Appetites
The PIG (the Problem of Immediate Gratification) is a defining feature of incentive use disorders. Individuals suffering the negative consequences of their excessive appetites want immediate gratification of the desire …
The Karma of Behaving Badly
The descent to Hell is easy; the gates stand open night and day; but to reclaim the slope, and escape to the upper air, this is labor. – Virgil