Binding Principles

Based on personal experience in addiction, seeking new and more satisfying ways to treat myself was never in the budget or even accidentally in the schedule. What was I treating myself for. That last few years were spent in self hatred. And treating myself generally included a bomber before noon or a movie alone. How we think, how and why we value some things and not others, will change. [ 435 more words ]

Self Care : Bodywork Based on personal experience in addiction, seeking new and more satisfying ways to treat myself was never in the budget or even accidentally in the schedule. What was I treating myself for. That la…

“It sometimes happens that a man undergoes such changes that he cannot very well be said to be the same man. He, who was seized with an illness, and although he recovered, remained, nevertheless, so oblivious of his past life that he did not believe the tales and tragedies he had composed were his own, and he might, indeed, have been taken for a grown-up child (if he had also forgotten his native tongue.)” Baruch Spinoza Foundations of the Moral Life

Argument for mindful practice “It sometimes happens that a man undergoes such changes that he cannot very well be said to be the same man. He, who was seized with an illness, and although he recovered, remained, nevertheless, s…

Resisting the impulse to do, again, what I’ve done repeatedly with predictably sh*tty results. The the enigmatic objective. Stop it with the redundancy, and your decision I’m going to talk about the climate of change. Resisting impulses will only work so long as there’s more weight against the dam than just your desire for agency and your will to fight. We can’t fight our impulse like any other if we’ve already bypassed the complete mental process necessary to make logical and measured decisions. [ 1,798 more word ]

Impulse Control Resisting the impulse to do, again, what I’ve done repeatedly with predictably sh*tty results. The the enigmatic objective. Stop it with the redundancy, and your decision I’m going to talk about th…

To set the scene. This what I mean when I say, Framing crafts the circumstances by which you allow yourself to be known, treated, and spoken about. Controlling this narrative can make or break your attempt to clean up. This is not the same as controlling your circumstances, which is an entirely different behavior. It will be addressed. Context matters. [ 1,663 more word ]

To Frame: To set the scene. This what I mean when I say, Framing crafts the circumstances by which you allow yourself to be known, treated, and spoken about. Controlling this narrative can make or break your…

“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old heart!” R.W. Emerson wrote that in his Essay Experience. I appreciate Emerson’s words a great deal. He plops this in at the end of his honest and somewhat tragic message of how we rattle through the day, automated, until we sleep or find some truly sacred time. Only then do we become our creative and complete selves. [ 635 more words ]

“Ego Exhaustion” “Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old heart!” R.W. Emerson wrote that in his Essay Experience. I appreciate Emerson’s words a great deal. He plops this in at the end of hi…

The eleventh Law in John C. Maxwell’s book, ‘The Fifteen Invaluable Laws Of Growth’, is described as the Law of Trade-offs. I’ve known it also as fair exchange. The out come can be pretty nasty when I’m not thinking with my whole mind. That’s me drinking. Then my trade offs were generally anything whatsoever, and a drink first. When I managed that spa at the Dude ranch, I’d have to wake up early and go on the morning horse rides to drum up business with my winning personality. [ 756 more words ]

“The Law Of Trade-offs” The eleventh Law in John C. Maxwell’s book, ‘The Fifteen Invaluable Laws Of Growth’, is described as the Law of Trade-offs. I’ve known it also as fair exchange. The out come can be pretty nasty whe…

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