Alcohol Dependence & Will
[twg_gpo_button] Most problem drinkers appreciate that the costs of using alcohol the way they do are greater than the benefits, but they vastly underestimate what it takes to change. As …
the puzzle of voluntary self-sabotage has a solution!
An invitation to know yourself by researching the sequence of cause-and-effect from both the outside and the inside
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[twg_gpo_button] Most problem drinkers appreciate that the costs of using alcohol the way they do are greater than the benefits, but they vastly underestimate what it takes to change. As …
[twg_gpo_button] We are each dealt a particular biology, psychological history, and current social environment. From these parts emerges a new entity—the Psyche—with attributes that did not exist before. Even the …
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.
-Martin Seligman
When asked, “Are you a god?”
Gautama, the person who became the Buddha replied, “No.”
“Then what are you?”
he was asked again.
Gautama’s answer was,
“I am awake”
Buddha means: “Awake.”
[twg_gpo_button] Suggestion, the use of imagination to manipulate subjective phenomena can be used to counter many addictive traps. This procedural skill requires a creative imagination and the ability to focus …
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something.
In the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
– Bertrand Russell
[twg_gpo_button] Suggestions are invitations to explore a particular subjective reality. Whether the entity that creates it is a hypnotist, salesman, or you, the suggestion is always a creative fiction rather …
[twg_gpo_button] The hypnotic state clients experience in my office as a result of a formal trance induction is just one of the many different trances they experience throughout their day. …
Mindfulness is a mental discipline that promotes awakening and may be defined as: Sensitivity to present experience with non-judgmental acceptance.
[twg_gpo_button] “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference,” is an …