Beliefs are as important as biochemistry in addictions
For 30 years I have been contending that unlearning beliefs will change behavior, including addictive behavior. Despite the fact that many thousands of people have made radical behavioral changes as a result of eliminating beliefs, I continue to get emails from people who state: “There is clear scientific evidence that addictions are biophysical. They are the result of chemical responses and conditionings. Getting rid of a few beliefs can’t possibly cure addictions.” Well, a recent scientific study concluded, "… cognitive beliefs could be as potent as pharmacological interventions in terms of modifying biophysical processes in the brain and changing behavior [...]
You can’t deal effectively with reality if you don’t know what it is
If you’ve been reading my recent blogs you learned that one benefit of dissolving your occurrings (the meanings you assign to the countless events that you encounter daily) is getting rid of virtually all your negative feelings and emotional stress. I then wrote about another benefit: creating possibilities that didn’t exist for you before. Today I want to explain a third benefit of dissolving occurrings, one that is at least as important as the first two: Dissolving your occurrings enables you to deal with “what is,” instead of an imagined “what is” that has meaning (usually negative) attached. That enables [...]
The future is not a function of the past
A client in my “Year With Morty” course recently reminded me of a principle I usually live out of, but had not thought about consciously for some time. I immediately realized that it was a great topic for a blog post. Here’s the way my client put it: Last year I tripled the revenue from my business. I started to figure out how much more we could increase revenues in 2015 and I suddenly realized that what we did last year really has nothing to do with our revenues this year. This year’s revenues will be a function of what [...]
How to have more possibilities and opportunities than most people
Last week I reminded you that dissolving the meaning we give events all day long will virtually stop your negative feelings and stress. Then I gave you a link to a web App that would allow you to do just that whenever you noticed a negative feeling. If you have a hard time believing that merely dissolving meaning will totally eliminate stress, read what Rob Shapiro, an emergency room doctor, wrote me just a couple of weeks ago about his experience of dissolving meaning: … all stress experienced by my body and mind at my job had been completely eliminated. [...]
Get rid of your upsets in three minutes
It’s finally ready and it’s yours at no charge. For the past few years I’ve been telling you how to dissolve the automatic and unconscious meaning you give events all day long. I’ve explained how doing that will enable you to virtually get rid of your negative emotions, which will stop your stress and emotional suffering. It will take less than three minutes Although I have taught hundreds of people in our Lefkoe Freedom Course how to reduce the frequency of the meaning they attribute to moment-to-moment events from 50+ a day to just several a week, I didn’t have [...]
