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Don't just wash the dishes for the sake of it. Wash them while taking time to experience everything that is happening around you. There are many instances where you may find yourself zoning out when driving. Most people spend their time thinking about what they did during the day. When driving home from work, some folks will use this time to think about what they will be eating for dinner. Practicing mindfulness can help you maintain your focus on the immediate environment around you. First, if the radio is playing, turn it off. Alternatively, you can choose to play some soothing music that will help you meditate. While maintaining your focus on the wheel, practice breathing exercises as you pay attention to your bodily movements. Practicing this regularly can help prevent your mind from wandering. All is well in my world. Now look in the mirror and observe your breathing. We often hold our breath when we're frightened. If you are feeling threatened or fearful, consciously breathe. Take a few deep breaths. Breathing opens the space inside you that is your power. It straightens your spine, opens your chest, and gives your tender heart room to expand. Continue breathing naturally and observing your breath. As you do this, repeat these affirmations: I love you, [Name]. I love you.

If you see significant improvement, go on a little trip. You earned it! You always see more of what you focus on. Hence, the benefits of seeing the glass half full are countless. The more you focus on positive things like happiness, optimism, and gratitude, the more you will see all the positive things around you and the better you will feel. The more your brain picks up on the positive, the more you'll expect this trend to continue, and so the more optimistic you will be. Bad things happen, but it's what you choose to focus on that ultimately creates your reality. We learned from Victor Frankl that something good could be found even in the worst circumstances. Finding the positive doesn't mean to be detached from the real world and ignoring the negative. Both co-exist, but you choose what enters your perception. Because we've seen skyrocketing cases of asthma, allergies and food sensitivities, autoimmune conditions, and autism in the two decades since these foods infiltrated our supply. Conversely, we have observed improvement of many of these conditions when GMOs and pesticide-laden foods are removed from the diet. We know enough to be extremely concerned, and though the correlations between GMOs and poor health aren't making headline news--often silenced by the dollar--we adopt the precautionary principle: When evidence points toward potentially significant, widespread, or irreparable harm to health or the environment, options to avoid harm should be pursued, even if harm is not yet fully understood or proven. I believe strongly you should also follow this principle and refuse to be a guinea pig in this billion-dollar unmonitored and unregulated experiment. Instead, commit to eating organic food (which, by definition, is not genetically engineered) whenever you can, gradually lower your toxic load, and get to Know Your Sources (article 40) so you can make the best choices. What Is the Issue? A GMO (genetically modified organism) or GE (genetically engineered) food is created when the DNA of different species is fused to form a type of plant or food that does not exist in nature or is not created by traditional crossbreeding. Foreign genes from one species are extracted and artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal, usually in a laboratory. This is primarily done to produce crops that can tolerate strong herbicides like Roundup (see article 153) or produce their own internal pesticides, theoretically to produce greater yield for less cost. The motivation is economic, not based on health or quality.

If I felt I was on the edge, I never dealt with it or asked myself who or what was making me feel this way. I just went to the gym. I was effectively `self-medicating' with exercise. In my opinion, it's actually the best way to reduce short, as well as long- term anxiety, but it's imperative to follow step one and then use training, exercise and meditation Don't eat foods that make your anxiety worse This really could have been number one, but as it's discussed in more detail in the nutrition section, it is number three on the list. I lacked self-awareness in my early twenties so much so that I never added two and two together in terms of how eating certain foods had a direct effect on my mood. Knowing how certain foods can send my body into a spiral of `fight or flight' has supported me massively over the past few years. If your body is intolerant or allergic to certain foods, or if you react to certain additives, flavourings and preservatives that can be found in heavily processed food, then it's worth keeping note of how you feel if these ingredients feature heavily in your diet. For example, I know if I eat too much dairy, sugar or gluten, my brain will feel foggy the next day and I won't have the same steady energy and mood that I normally have. Everyone reacts differently to certain foods and ingredients, so experiment with it yourself. I know in a previous article we talked about keeping yourself motivated and making sure you stick to your schedule, and that's to be encouraged on those days when you are tempted to bunk off by distracting chatter from your chimp brain. But let's get real, there may be the odd day when you miss a session for very genuine reasons. Don't fret, and don't think you need to put in a `double shift' to catch up. You own your schedule. Equally, it may well happen that illness strikes during your training program and you can't train for a week or so. If that's the case, simply pick up where you left off, or if you need to, drop back a week or two in the schedule until you feel back up to speed. Remember that the overall outcome from the full 12 week schedule is always more important than the outcome of a single week or a single session. Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears. Laird Hamilton Every runner, even the most experienced, gets the odd day where they just don't feel like running.

Mental Body - Fourth Layer H erein lies our best friend or our greatest enemy - the human mind. As we embark on this kosha, the manomaya kosha, know that the more you understand the underpinnings of the mind and how it works, the easier it becomes to navigate through life making use of the mind instead of it making use of you. When working with clients, this is an important piece to the whole. Without a sound mind, a calm state, it makes it difficult to heal and transform the entirety of a human being, the six koshas. The mind is powerful and magnificent. It holds the capacity to make your life beautiful, calm, and positive while also holding the capacity to make your life full of fear, worry, doubt, and negativity. The manomaya kosha are your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. When in balance, you are able to maintain a state of calm, joy, and connection. When the manomaya kosha is out of balance, you experience destructive and negative states of being. Other people's behavior is more comprehensible when you realize that the same principles of motivation apply to all of us, in whatever we're trying to do. Before you learn to use the specific skills and strategies that come later, before any changes in behavior on the part of you or your loved one, you can feel more hopeful and in control, for good reason. In fact, you may find yourself acting differently already, because you are seeing things differently, and your loved one may respond differently in turn. Behavior Analysis Behavior analysis involves systematically thinking through the specifics of how and why your loved one uses a substance or engages in other compulsive behaviors. It is a relatively simple exercise, but the benefits are many. A behavior analysis does several things: first, it provides an estimate of your loved one's current use against which to measure future changes. Second, it will help you see the predictability of the situation. You may feel like things are out of control, senseless, and random, but in fact substance use is one of the more rote and boring behavior patterns in which people engage (although those patterns are different for each individual). Seeing how predictable substance use can be may help you take back your life from the grip of fear that you could be ambushed at any moment.

I believe you are capable of much more that you have even dreamed about. Do you allow negative events, people and circumstances to influence you to such an extent that you sometimes become negative, discouraged and lose hope? Do you have a dream you want to realize so desperately that you are willing to endure anything to achieve it? Have you set a clear-cut goal to achieve with a deadline? Is the reason why you want to succeed stronger than the negative and discouraging influences trying to keep you from reaching success? These questions are very similar to some of those in the part about a success aspiring attitude. But by answering these questions you will gain more insight into how strong your motivation to take action despite obstacles is and how likely you are to keep on doing whatever it takes to achieve your goal. Before you learn more about the successful results of the behaviors people with positive attitudes have, let's first zoom in on why it's so important to have a strong motivation to achieve your goal. It will also give you a better understanding of why positive people are so successful. Your WHY Lights the Fire With high rates of hoarding evident in family members, any theories of hoarding must include genetic heritability as a vulnerability factor. Negative mood and specifically depression are common features of HD and may be important in the development of hoarding symptoms. Besides depression, other negative emotional states include anxiety, grief, loss, sadness, guilt, frustration, confusion, anger, and suspiciousness. These types of feelings are associated with the avoidance of discarding and can interfere with the person's ability to let go of unneeded and unwanted stuff. Negative mood can also lead to excessive buying to offset depressed feelings and improve one's mood while shopping or obtaining a new free item. As noted in the description of compulsive buying in article 1, acquiring produces short-term relief from negative mood, which reinforces shopping as a coping strategy, but unfortunately it ultimately produces longer-term social, financial, and interpersonal difficulties and ultimately a negative mood. At the same time, acquiring and saving is also reinforced by positive emotions like excitement, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, and pride. This up-and-down mood pattern seems to resemble what takes place in some addictions (for example, gambling). Some research has also indicated that problematic hoarding is associated with personal histories of negative life events, and some degree of traumatic experiences. This is evident in studies showing that people with hoarding problems, especially those with more severe clutter in their home, are more likely to have had traumatic experiences than those without hoarding.