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By CHARLES GLASSMANRecently published1 topic

My AB's Bigger Than Yours

For as long as I’ve been writing my weekly messages and my book Brain Drain, readers have asked me whether I have read so and so’s work or watched a particular TV show that they felt related to my work. Naturally, those inquiries would fire up my automatic brain (AB) with thoughts like, “What are you wasting your time for—other people are doing the same things you are doing!” Someone asked me if I had seen the Charlie Rose special on PBS about the brain—a reasonable question, given that my book is called Brain Drain.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Simple Steps to Change

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin to Winnie-the-Pooh

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Conquer Self-Doubt, NOW!

“You will never find happiness until you conquer your own doubt. “rn-From a Yogi Tea bag Now, be honest: When you crack open that fortune cookie doesn’t part of you think, “This is going to be it, the answer for everything?” The makers of these cookies figured that out years ago, and they started printing lottery numbers along with the fortunes.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Be a Selfish Person

The term narcissist comes from Ovid’s myth of a vain young boy Narcissus. To make a long story short, one day the teenage boy happens upon a lake where he sees his reflection and falls in love with the boy whom he sees. At some point later, he learns that the image he sees is actually himself. Becoming tormented because he can’t act upon his love, he literally beats himself up in rage and some versions of the story have him killing himself. His vanity, his “narcissism,” turned into self-repudiation and a hatred of himself.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Lessons of a To Hamstring

About 11 years ago, this weekend warrior participated in a good old fashioned Sunday morning touch football game. As I extended my left leg, outstretched to defend a receiver from catching the ball, I felt a pop in my left hamstring. I came away limping, unable to put any pressure on it. With little rehab, I was back running in a few weeks—big mistake! About 8 months later, I started to develop pain in my left hip and to this day, that hasn’t changed. I still am very physically active and fit, but my running days are behind me—or so I thought.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Principles of Happiness

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson For the most part, most of us are in pursuit of happiness. Some of us have preconceived ideas of what will bring happiness and others have very specific requirements. What I feel we must be on the lookout for is happiness in the form of familiar and “comfortable” situations, behaviors, and thoughts. Ever since I developed this idea of the automatic brain (AB), people have inquired as to whether it is nurture vs. nature (i.e. genetic vs. learned).

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Better to Receive Than to Give

We’ve all been taught that it’s better to give than receive. But, what if it was really the other way around? If we look deep into ourselves, we might realize that there is not a giving problem that stands in the way of our ability to receive what is right for us. Instead, for many of us, it’s actually a receiving problem. The Automatic Brain

Primary topic: Mind Power

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You Got a Problem?

The upbeat messages bombard us all the time: “Just think positive,” we’re urged. Or: “You should view the glass as half-full, not half-empty.” If we seem beset with self-doubt, we’re reminded to “just believe in yourself.” I’ve been part of this chorus of cheerfulness; you’ve heard me extol the power of thinking positive as it applies to health and wellness. But that’s OK, right? A few years ago, “The Secret” (both the book and the DVD) prompted a lot of discussion with its simple message that you attract what you think about.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Control the Uncontrollable

For the most part, there are things that have happened in our life or will happen this week, of which we have little or no control. When stuff happens it has a way of draining our enthusiasm, optimism, belief, and faith. Certainly those who rely on the Gulf of Mexico for their livelihood have had these things challenged over the past couple of months. What if, every day, you go to work only to face a boss who you just can’t figure out? You may look at your business or your job and realize a recession that was not your fault is affecting your income or your ability to grow.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Those Who Mind Don't Matter, Those Who Matter Don't Mind

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind” Dr. Seuss

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Staying Afloat on the Ebb and Flow

What got me started writing these weekly messages was a need expressed by one of my patients. He always felt particularly motivated after meeting with me, but was frustrated that the motivation quickly faded once he was back among the pressures of his life. We came up with the idea of a weekly motivational email, and the rest is history! As we ride the ebb and flow of life’s circumstance, our mood, outlook, and attitude constantly rise and fall. Many factors influence this ever-present fluctuation—the weather, the seasons, and countless events both in and out of our control.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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The Case Against Breakfast

There are no fat lions in the pride. Lions eat a diet almost extensively of red meat. They do not get fat from this because they only eat enough to sustain themselves—no more, no less. So at least in the case of the lion it is not so much what they eat as it is how often and how much they eat. They may devour a carcass, but not eat again for two or three days. I find this pattern among most people who do not have a weight problem. Obviously, our metabolism is quite different from a predator as the lion.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Our Perfect Game

A practical article connected into the broader SelfGrowth topic graph.

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How to Think Positive Without Thinking it Will Jinx You

The automatic brain always defaults to the worst-case scenario. This is an automatic, evolutionary instinct developed, over a few hundred thousand years, to protect us from pain and suffering—in other words, from the worst-case scenario of any situation. A few hundred thousand years seems like a very long time. So let’s see how this has played out in terms of our lifetime.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Overcoming Sadness

No, I did not see Toy Story 3; but, recently, my wife and two daughters did. When my wife came home, she shared with me the premise of the story. As she told it to me, I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness. Similar to the bubbling over sensation when we uncontrollably belly laugh, I felt a strong sense that I was going to cry. After all, the story is about the boy, Andy, who has now grown up (from Toy Story 1 and 2) and is getting ready to leave for college.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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By CHARLES GLASSMANRecently published1 topic

How to Multi-Task Successfully

For most of us achieving calmness in our lives is a worthy and desirable, albeit somewhat lofty goal. A friend shared with me the following formula to achieving inner peace, something she heard on a popular TV show. “The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished.” Sounds good, right?

Primary topic: Mind Power

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How to Always Have Enough Time

During a radio call-in show I appeared on, a caller expressed the frustration and stress he feels with his life. “I know I should be exercising, eating well, and meditating, “ he said, “but I have three jobs, kids, and not enough time to do anything.”

Primary topic: Mind Power

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How Are You Rippling?

Once a few years ago, while sitting at the bedside of a dying patient, as she spoke of the worthlessness of her life and that she would not be missed, I was reminded of the story about George Bailey in the 1946 film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Although this film is fictional, it resonated to viewers then and still now, because of the truth on which it focuses. The fact is each of us affects others in ways that we are largely unaware.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Everything's Gonna Be Alright

I recall during high school when I was applying to colleges. Firmly affixed in the neurons of my automatic brain was Groucho Marx’s famous line: “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.” So it would follow that any college that accepted me could not be so great. When I did not get into my first choice schools, I cried.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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By CHARLES GLASSMANRecently published1 topic

Please Notice Me

Watching the Olympics, I found myself wondering whether the competitors would work so hard, becoming expert at what they do, if there were no one around to acknowledge their achievement. (Many no doubt would.) And what about me—would I have spent time and effort writing a book and these weekly messages if no one were around to read them? I wrote Brain Drain as a means of self-exploration, self-therapy, and as a service to my readers to help them in the same ways (same goes for these weekly messages). But I would not be honest if I were to say those are the only purposes.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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It's Always Going to be Something

(original distribution in early April 2010) Passover and Easter are upon us. New Year’s Day is a fading memory and so, probably, are those New Year’s resolutions for change and self-improvement. One of the most common resolutions is to achieve a healthier lifestyle—eating the right foods, getting more exercise, perhaps thinking more positively and overcoming procrastination. My patient whose request a few years ago for some way to stay motivated between visits led to these weekly messages and Brain Drain was not unique.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Our Security Blanket

Security is mostly a superstition…Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.rn-Helen Keller The universe is vast beyond our comprehension. Our world seems vast, almost beyond comprehension. Think of the thousands of lives with which we intersect every day, whether it be traveling in a car or passing on the street or seeing at the supermarket. Each person has a web of life experience that may or may not have intersected ours at some point—almost like the “six degrees of separation” effect.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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Stop GERD Now, Without Harmful Medication

Almost like a cult following, doctors are reaching into their white coat pockets and writing for proton pump inhibitors. Those are the medications like Prilosec, Nexium, Aciphex, and Prevacid prescribed for gastroesophageal reflux or GERD.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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How to Receive Good Fortune with No Strings Attached

Over the past few years, I have developed a deep understanding of how my automatic brain (AB) works. From this, I feel that I have figured out much in the way of human interaction as well as personal challenges, even torments. One thing that has become quite clear is that certain anxieties and even depression always stem from something that triggers one’s AB. Often the person suffering from these things has not brought up to the level of consciousness and awareness the actual danger trigger, remaining in the subconscious. That is, danger is the only thing to which the AB reacts.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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The Healthcare Bill and the Automatic Brain

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children yet unborn… Rod Serling (from the Twilight Zone)

Primary topic: Mind Power

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“This is Not the Way You’re Supposed to Meditate”

In my book Brain Drain, I discuss how meditation has allowed me to understand the workings of the automatic brain and put me in touch with the power of my mind for a richer, more satisfying life. This is why I have decided to share some meditations on my You Tube site.

Primary topic: Mind Power

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