A Psychologist on the Loose
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The Fettucinne, No Brain Connection
Okay. We’ve had lots of examples of the EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM messing life up for us. So where does the THINKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM come in?
And what does it have to do with fettucine? Everything!!!
The THINKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM is:
The part of our brain which can TOLERATE ANXIETY.
The part of our brain which can GATHER and USE FACTS in decisions.
The part of our brain which can SLOW DOWN and consider, WHEN I TOOK THIS CERTAIN ACTION BEFORE, HOW DID THINGS WORK OUT?
The Fetteccinne Incident, a move made thousands of times a day. I’m working at a hotel and it’s four in the afternoon. More >
Why Change Is Hard: The Fettuccine Incident
Later today. My fettuccine confession. MY EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM wins again.
Yep. Another night stuck with info-mercials. Could be I’m the only one messing up like this. There’s always the option of learning from Dr. L on the radio. Apparently, she makes no mistakes.
Not so with this psychologist, defeated again by fettuccine.
The String Bikini Incident
Motto for 2009: “You know, I’ve been thinking. I’ve decided I would look GREAT in a string bikini!”
Yep. The very thought is beyond ridiculous if I’m talking about what someone else would think. I’m not sure I could talk a salesperson into letting me try on, much less purchase a string bikini. I chose the string bikini statement because someone who loves me very much just the way I am said that once spying a string bikini on a store manikin. He couldn’t have been more wrong. And I’m not being coy. I would look ridiculous in a string bikini, More >
HOW TO NOT LIKE YOURSELF and get others to agree with you
Andy (Timothy Robbins) walks into Shawshank prison, an environment most of us would see as a hopeless place to survive, much less have a life of any quality. He enters the mess hall and the yard, surveys his new neighbors, and joins the most sane group with the most balanced leader (Morgan Freeman). He works in the library, teaches inmates to read, and every single night he scoops one teaspoon of sand out of the tunnel he’s digging for his escape.
Andy chooses to be in charge of himself rather than allow his surroundings determine what goes on inside him and how More >
MOVIES: 1. PERCEPTION and Defining a Self
HOW YOU PERCEIVE OTHERS and the WORLD determines, to a large degree, how much fun your are going to have in this life. Whether you are FREE or in YOUR OWN PRISON.
Sometimes when I talk about working toward a Self Defined Life, people mistakenly assume being SELF DEFINED is the same as being Self-ish. Nothing could be further from the truth. Isn’t it more selfish to run your life on some kind of “auto-pilot” expecting others to change for you? Could there be a more unselfish gift to a spouse, a friend, or relative than to say, “I’ve complained a lot about More >
MOVIES, “Psycho” and Defining a Self
“Which is more real? The world you can touch, or THE WORLD YOU ARE RESPONDING TO?”
Talk about your family issues. Anthony Perkins in “Psycho” is definitely a person with a problem staying calm around his mother. In fact, his Emotional Guidance System rules his behavior so thoroughly when he’s around his mother, he becomes his mother. The view his mother’s subjective view, based on her fears, has become his view. When he has thoughts unacceptable to his mother’s view of him as an innocent little boy, he punishes himself.
And, there was that unpleasantry in the shower. Janet Leigh screaming, her More >
