Life in the fat lane Since the War on Fat began, in the 1980’s, Obesity rates have doubled. For the past 100 years fast food marketing has worked to infect our lizard brains. Food marketing targets vunerabilities and manipulates through psychology and color to break down defense mechanisms – The Lizard brain Virus. We don’t need no...
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Decision Grid 1: What is the Meaning of Dog? saved
What is the Meaning of the Word Dog? Decision Grid Part I: Introduction This is a game we devised for a Toastmaster meeting a few years ago as an in-house visual demonstration of how thoughts and ideas process within our minds. The Decision Grid follows the flow of decision-making from the moment a question or situation arises...
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What Self-Image Becomes Personality? Question: Which emotion does your inner arrow point to right now? What is your overall mood between “Excited, Sad, Scared, Angry, Loving, Happy”? The next question to ask yourself is what appears to be the mood of the other person or situation at hand? Predicament: Do you alter any moods in your personality...
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That’s Control’s Motto The brain’s only function is to think, think, think all the time, nonstop 24-7. What are the odds we might think inappropriate thoughts that become suppressed under Control’s ruthless determination to make sure we don’t have too much fun? (We really must think of a more descriptive name for Control. Thoughts?) How to get...
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Funny how our shadows so readily ride the seesaw of shame down over for greed and avarice only to reward with a plethora of choices for personal amusement. We treat ourselves with lavish entertainment excessive abundence of food endless personal conviences ability to travel freely We become our own Court Jesters Should we live as monks or...
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Chaos knows there are 01 kinds of people. Zero: 0=atheist, without belief, science perspective One: 1=theist, with belief, magical perspective We are Zero in the binary code of life and, like every other 0 or 1, our life has purpose. Everything past the (-0 1+) is Ideology. Ideology: rules established by rulers to protect a purpose of...
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Acknowledge the Shadow What is it that you do not tell yourself? Control, the brain’s Inner Guard protects the id, ego, and superego from harm. The Id, ego, and superego collude to prevent awareness of uncomfortable truths about ourselves which prevent us from acknowledging the role we play in that search which contributes to what we find...
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It’s probably a maturity thing as we progress from the comfortable safety of infancy and enter the Brave New World. It’s only natural to want to drag the security blanket into adulthood and be sheltered by a myriad system of government laws, rules and regulations designed to protect us from ourselves. Every generation makes a collective stand...
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How to Fight Brain Softening Buy your children age inappropriate toys and let them discover the pain of victory. Read and learn about that which most vexes you in order to determine for yourself the difference between what is real and what is manipulative propaganda. Treat commercial advertising as a personal science experiment. Peruse every advertisement to...
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Maslow’s “A Theory of Human Motivation,” explains throughout life, we collect volumes of assumptions and stereotypes learned through education and personal experience. U name it. Assumptions are everywhere around us, in everything we do and say. Who has the time to research every little thing as it happens? Both assumption and stereotype are survival mechanisms. Survival depends...
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