CAFFEINE WITH ALCOHOL MAKES YOU DRINK MORE, DRINK LONGER AND WANT TO DRINK AGAIN. When you mix caffeine and alcohol, the caffeine counteracts the sleepiness and balance/coordination problems that usually come with drinking, allowing you to drink heavily without passing out or stumbling Read More →
Reverse Procrastination-Procrastination Can Drive Productivity
Reverse Procrastination - Use your natural tendency to procrastinate to train yourself to become productive and focused. Procrastination is when you tell yourself, "I'll just play one more game of solitaire and then I'll get started writing my paper." Then - surprise, surprise - when Read More →
A SIMPLE EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE SELF-TEST
Do you have problems with ANGER, FEARS, SADNESS, OBSESSIONS or COMPULSIONS? Do a simple exercise to find out if emotional baggage is subconsciously causing your problems. Think of an issue that is interfering with your life right now. This may be anger, sadness, anxiety, an Read More →
Start Breaking Compulsions & Addictions In 2 Minutes
The difference between social drinking and problem drinking doesn't have anything to do with how ofter you drink, how much you drink, whether you drink alone or with other people. Social drinking happens when you drink to make a good feeling better. Problem drinking - and any other Read More →
HOW STRESS MAKES YOU STUPID
Stress enlarges your habit brain and shrinks your decision-making brain. Chronic stress hormones trigger mindless habits instead of thoughtful action. When you are under chronic stress your brain releases stress hormones (adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol) which actually change your Read More →
Stress management 2.0: Simple ways to stop stressing
Your body and brain were designed to handle short bursts of stress to help you get away from lions and tigers and bears. Once you are safe your stress response is supposed to go back down to its 0 baseline. When you are chronically stressed and especially when your stress response never Read More →
How Forgetting to Put Down a Toilet Seat Can Lead to a Divorce
Unconscious flashbacks - emotionally charged memories that can trigger strong emotional reactions and destructive urges and impulses without ever coming into your conscious mind can cause serious damage because they force you to MAKE UP reasons for your reactions. Women who have been Read More →
What Made Me React Like That? The Hidden Effect of Unconscious Flashbacks
Do you know anyone who has over-the-top reactions that don't make any sense in the present? They may have had an UNCONSCIOUS FLASHBACK. There are two kinds of flashbacks, conscious flashbacks and unconscious flashbacks. When a car backfire triggers a memory of mortar fire to pop into a Read More →
The Strangers Within You – Your Emotional and Body Brains
So how can you have emotional reactions that don’t make sense to you, that don’t seem to be under your control? To understand this you have to understand how your brain is wired. Your brain can be divided into 3 parts. Make a fist with your right hand, then cover your fist with your Read More →