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Why We Struggle To Make Decisions: The Elusive Role Of Survival Strategy Beliefs

A rooster's crow is loud enough to permanently damage hearing. Yet rooster's never go deaf from all the noise they make. The rooster is immune [...]

By Shelly Lefkoe|Wednesday, September 23, 2020|Categories: Beliefs|Tags: survival strategies, survival strategy beliefs|1 Comment

Why Some Events Get Us Down (The Influence Of Survival Strategies)

What tiny cat is three times deadlier than a lion? It's called the African black-footed cat. The average house cat is about 8 pounds. These [...]

By Shelly Lefkoe|Wednesday, July 22, 2020|Categories: Beliefs|Tags: survival strategies|0 Comments

Do you brag?

For most of my life I didn’t see bragging as a problem. I did it and most of the people I knew did it also. [...]

By Morty Lefkoe|Tuesday, December 30, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: beliefs, bragging, children, LBP, Lefkoe Belief Process, Lefkoe Institute, Morty Lefkoe, Natural Confidence, negative beliefs, parenting, survival strategies, survival strategy behavior, survival strategy beliefs, The Lefkoe Method, TLM, unreasonable expectations|10 Comments

You said that fear was your biggest problem

Whenever we do a survey of people on our mailing list, asking them to list the biggest problems they face, the most common answer is [...]

By Morty Lefkoe|Tuesday, June 18, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: anxiety, beliefs, conditioning, drugs, failure, fear, Lefkoe Institute, mental pain, mistakes, Morty Lefkoe, parents, physical pain, self-esteem, survival strategies, The Lefkoe Method|9 Comments

Why some get angry and others fear it.

The first time I really allowed myself to experience my anger I fainted. I was about 36 and had successfully suppressed my anger since childhood. [...]

By Morty Lefkoe|Tuesday, March 27, 2012|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: anger, beliefs, change, childhood, conditioning, LBP, Lefkoe Belief Process, Lefkoe Institute, meaning, Morty Lefkoe, negative self-esteem, parent, parenting, survival strategies, The Lefkoe Method, TLM, Who Am I Really?|29 Comments

Why do most of us act compulsively?

Why are so many of us “driven” compulsively to seek or do things that frequently aren’t in our own best self-interest? You probably aren’t surprised [...]

By Morty Lefkoe|Tuesday, March 13, 2012|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: beliefs, change, compulsive behavior, conditioning, LBP, Lefkoe Institute, Morty Lefkoe, negative self-esteem, self-esteem, survival strategies, The Lefkoe Method, TLM, WAIR?, Who Am I Really?|36 Comments

Stop Worrying About What Others Think

One of the most devastating problems people have is so common that nearly everybody views it as “human nature.” Few people even try to get [...]

By Morty Lefkoe|Tuesday, April 26, 2011|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: beliefs, childhood, Morty Lefkoe, obsession, survival strategies, survival strategy beliefs|28 Comments

I finally stopped bragging

It took me a long time to stop bragging. About 50 years in fact. As a child I always bragged about things that I thought [...]

By Morty Lefkoe|Tuesday, March 30, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: beliefs, bragging, change, childhood, children, disobey, LBP, Lefkoe Belief Process, negative self-esteem, parent, parenting, self-esteem, survival strategies, survival strategy beliefs, The Lefkoe Method, TLM|16 Comments

Eating/Weight Problems: The Source and Solution

Most of the behavioral or emotional problems we want to get rid of are relatively simple to deal with. We procrastinate. We worry all the [...]

By Morty Lefkoe|Tuesday, October 13, 2009|Categories: Emotional Eating|Tags: beliefs, conditioning, LBP, Lefkoe Belief Process, Lefkoe Stimulus Process, survival strategies, survival strategy beliefs, The Lefkoe Method|9 Comments

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