You Are Not Your Brain

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Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz has written another book about how to identify and replace false brain impulses. In a previous book The Mind and The Brain: he lays out a 4 step process.

There are some very interesting additions in this book which takes a broader application of these four steps and describes them in significantly greater detail.

[Greek Dog]

Rewiring -

finding the individual wires to work on separately is its own task.
Action is what schwartz says is key.
That is so true of me because my reaction to has been avoidance and shut down.
I have made progress but I have much more to accomplish.
I desire to move out of shut down and avoidance.

Last night I had dreams that saw me giving in to others in a say that I shut down. And then I took charge of ME and did what I needed to do even when the others refused to cooperate. That was quite a shift.

I live in a sandwich situation but different from why is often meant. I am sandwiched between the programming from my sick and cruel father and a dear but incredibly demanding child. The wiring that formed from my childhood makes it difficult to deal with and separate self from child's demands. They all seem to fit in obligation.