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Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry

Posted on June 14, 2012 by edwards87

Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry In the previous article I eluded to the fact that high-carb diets can disrupt our brain chemistry. This will be the subject of this article. In the practical guide … Continue reading →

Posted in Nutrition | Tagged acetylcholine, addiction, addictive, anxiety, avena, binge, brain chemistry, carb addiction, carbohydrate, carbohydrate addiction, challenge, control, cost, cost benefit, cross-sensitization, dopamine, eating style, edward spruit, endogenous reward system, energy, fat, food addiction, glucose, health, high carb food, high-carb, hoebel, hypofrontality, metabolism, norden, norepinephrine, numbing taste, Nutrition, opioid, paleo, primal, proteins, reward, reward system, serotonin, stable energy levels, sugar addiction, taste bud, withdrawal | 2 Comments

Utilize Everything, Take Risk, Don’t Settle, Practice over Perfection & Words of Thanks

Posted on February 24, 2012 by edwards87

Principle: Utilize Everything & Take more Risk In changing behaviour, there will be an element of uncertainty and challenge involved in going outside of the ranges of how I normally act (my comfort zone/safe haven). This visceral feeling of tension … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged abuse, action, action orientation, action practice, addiction, attached, authentic, authenticity, behavior, burning desire, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, cognitive dissonance, comfort zone, completion, context, daily practice, dan millman, desire, desires, disappointed, disappointment, edward spruit, emotional processing, energy, excitement, exploration, exploring, focus, frame, framing, fruits of labor, goal, goal setting, goals, health, identity, identity is dynamic, integrity, interpreting, investing energy, kanye west, label, leverage, mediocrity, mental tension, outcome, outcome attachment, outcome dependence, perfection, personal development, pook, practice, predictability, psychology, responsibility, result, result orientation, risk, safe, safety, self-change, self-help, self-schema, settling, social psychology, social science, stress, take risk, taking action, tension, tetris, thanks, time, utilization, utilize, Vegeta, werner erhard, what I want | 5 Comments

Investigating and Rewriting the Self-schema, Identifying my Values, Goal-Setting and Creating a Vision for the Future

Posted on February 22, 2012 by edwards87

Practice: Investigating and Rewriting the Self-schema In Part III, I suggested an action exercise on writing out what is currently in your Self-schema. Writing out the content of my Self-schema makes me aware of what kind of a person I … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged abuse, action plan, addiction, alex treasure, anxiety, authenticity, burning desire, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, cognitive dissonance, completion, daily goals, desire, destination, direction, dogmatic, dynamic, dynamic self-schema, edward spruit, emotional processing, energy, examining, excitement, exploration, fear, future, goal, goal setting, goals, health, how i am being, humor, hurt, identifying values, identity, identity is dynamic, integrity, mood altering, optimism, organizing, pain, past, personality, planning, positive emotions, positivity, practice, presence, psychology, purpose, responsibility, rewriting, rigid, schema, self, self improvement, self-change, self-concept, self-enhancement, self-expression, self-limiting, self-schema, sexuality, social science, stress, trapped hurt, trauma, value, values, vision, werner erhard, who i am, write, writing, written plans | 1 Comment

Establishing Healthy Boundaries, Emotional Completion, Diagnosing Addictions and Removing Lifestyle Stressors

Posted on February 20, 2012 by edwards87

Socio-emotional Needs In addition to the basic human needs for air, light, water, food, sleep, strength and mobility, we also have social and emotional needs. As social animals, we have a need for social acceptance and we like to relate, … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged abuse, acceptance, addiction, anger, anxiety, boundaries, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, comfort zone, completion, creativity, danny way, eating style, eckhart tolle, edward spruit, emotional abuse, emotional bullshit, emotional completion, emotional needs, emotional processing, emotional state, energy, experience, exploration, expressing anger, fear, feel good, feeling good, food, health, hurt, identity, identity is dynamic, kicking the dog, long-term, mental abstraction, mood alter, mood altering, mood state, napoleon hill, neurotransmitter, neurotransmitter debt, neurotransmitter receptor, neurotransmitter reserves, pain, personal boundary, post-traumatic stress, presence, psychology, quitting addictions, responsibility, self-change, self-schema, short-term, social interaction, social needs, social psychology, social science, stress, stress management, stressor, trapped hurt, trauma, traumatic experience, werner erhard | 4 Comments

Getting my Needs met in a Quality manner & Suggestions for Practice

Posted on February 17, 2012 by edwards87

Principle: Getting my needs met Human beings have a variety of needs, the most basic of which concern those that directly concern our survival. Oxygen (air), sleep and water are the most important and immediate, whereas light, food (energy and nutrition) … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged abraham maslow, abuse, addiction, agriculture, air, anxiety, avocado, belly, bench press, bicep curl, birdseed, breath, breathing, broccoli, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, chin-up, coconut, comfort zone, complete protein, deadlift, deep sleep, doug mcguff, drink, eating habits, eating style, edward spruit, energy, fasting, fat, fat storage, fat stores, fat storing, fish, fly, food, fruit juice, fruits, getting needs met, glucagon, glucogen, glucose, glycogen, gnolls, goals, grain, gym, health, hierarchy of needs, hormones, identity, identity is dynamic, insulin, inverse row, joint, kelly starret, leafy greens, lean muscle mass, light, losing weight, lung capacity, lungs, mark sisson, maslow, meeting needs, metabolism, mobility, mood altering, muscle, nap, need, nerd fitness, Nutrition, nuts, olive, organic, oxygen, paleo, paleolithic, power nap, press, primal, proteins, psychology, pull-up, quality of sleep, research, responsibility, reverse row, rob wolff, robert lustig, self-change, self-schema, shelter, sleep wake cycle, social science, squat, stable energy levels, strength, stress, sun, sunlight, training, vegetable juice, vegetables, water, werner erhard, wheat, work-out, yam | 1 Comment

Integrity, Self-trust, Locus of Control and Being with the Weirdness

Posted on February 15, 2012 by edwards87

Principle: Integrity and Self-trust “Without integrity, nothing works.” ~ Erhard, Jensen & Zaffron, 2009 ~ According to Werner Erhard, an important aspect of integrity is keeping my word. Keeping my word means doing what I say I will. When I … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged abuse, achievement, addiction, alan watts, anxiety, approval, aspects of personality, being with the weirdness, capacity for challenge, changing behavior, cognitive dissonance, comfort zone, completion, confidence, david deida, decision, decisions, defining, edward spruit, emotional processing, exploration, expression, external, failure, favour, fool, fucked up shit, goal, goal setting, goals, health, honoring my word, identity, identity is dynamic, integrity, internal, keeping my word, lao tse, life, locus of control, looking good, looking like a fool, mans search for meaning, meaning, mykonos, natural, natural impulses, nobility, peers, personality, poetry, point of reference, predictable, psychology, pursuit of happiness, safe, safe haven, self-change, self-schema, self-trust, shaming, silliness, silly, social acceptance, social science, spontaneity, strange, success, tao te ching, trauma, validation, viktor frankl, wacky, wayne dyer, weird, weirdness, werner erhard, wheatson, wild nights, word | 1 Comment

How Context influences my Behaviour

Posted on February 10, 2012 by edwards87

How Context influences Behaviour “It is not what happens to you that matters, but how you RESPOND to what happens to you that determines your whole life.” ~ Brian Tracy ~ According to David Hawkins, in any situation there are … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged action, action practices, anticipation, automated, automatic, brandstatter, brian tracy, bystander effect, changing behavior, classical conditioning, cognitive dissonance, conditioning, conditions, conscious, context, contextulaised, dan millman, david hawkins, edward spruit, estimation, expectations, exploration, future, future you're living into, goal intentions, goals, gollwitzer, habits, health, identity, identity is dynamic, implementation, implementation intentions, kari granger, michael jensen, need for predictability, past, pavlov, plan, pluralistic ignorance, practice, predictability, prediction, psychology, self-change, self-change project, self-schema, social judgment, social science, steve zaffron, stress, vision, voluntary, werner erhard, willpower, wisdom, written plans | 1 Comment

Obedience, Social Hierarchy & Blaming the Externals

Posted on February 3, 2012 by edwards87

Obedience to the system There is another payoff for having my self-schema filled out by external suggestion (other people): It alleviates me of personal responsibility. If I just live my Life according to the ‘basic/generic ways to live Life according … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged building muscle, complete protein, crowd, delegate responsibility, delegating, diffusing responsibility, disruption, edward spruit, expertise, fasting, fat, fibre, flexibility, food, fruit, gi tract, glucose, glycogen, going against the grain, grain, group think, health, herd mentality, high carb food, high-carb, high-carb diet, identity, identity is dynamic, intestinal damage, intestines, investigating, metabolism, muscle, muscle development, muscle gain, Nutrition, nuts, paleo, primal, proteins, psychology, research, responsibility, self-change, self-schema, social science, social systen, society, sociology, stable energy levels, system, trial and error, vegetable | 1 Comment

Fear, the Autonomic Nervous System & the narrowing of our Range of Behaviour

Posted on January 18, 2012 by edwards87

Fear versus anxiety Aside from the negative impact of unprocessed hurt from abuse I already mentioned, there is another detrimental factor to uncompleted past pain that I want to write about. That is, the underlying sense of threat a person … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged action repertoire, adrenaline, ANS, anxiety, aspects of self, attention, autonomic nervous system, bradshaw, completion, consolidation, cutting of parts, emotionally absent, epineprhine, fear, fight, flight, fredrickson, getting needs met, glucocorticoids, health, high-carb, human needs, identity, identity is dynamic, john bradshaw, monkeys, narrow minded, paleo, parasympathetic, part of self, part psychology, presence, processing emotions, psycholohy, recovery, repressing emotion, rest, robert sapolsky, safety, sapolsky, self-change, shame, shaming, social acceptance, social hierarchy, social science, stress, stress response, stressor, sympathetic, trapped hurt, ulcer, uncompleted past | 1 Comment

The Native Human Eating Style: a Practical Guide to Paleo

Posted on December 2, 2011 by edwards87

The Native Human Eating Style: A Practical Guide to Paleo In the previous articles on Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates, I established the following main points: Eating food is for gaining energy, as well as providing the body with the essential … Continue reading →

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