MysteryShrink for the Short Attention Span

Cold Turkey Quick Fix Are you ready to be less predictable and downright mysterious? Now that you have owned your responsibility for your reaction habits (The motto: This is unfortunate, inconvenient, and unpleasant, but not a disaster unless I decide to make it one.) and you have been successful in …

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MysteryShrink for the Short Attention Span**

Change Your Reactions, Change Your Life Quick Fix #2 Instant Buddha Quick Fix #2 for the Short Attention Span brings big results. Yet it’s so simple, anyone can do it. My dogs can do it. Sometimes. Set-up. For you to have a reaction, first you must perceive an action—You smash …

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Going with the Flo

Impractical Psychology On this New Year’s my mind goes back to Ellen, the thirty-three-year old mother with breast cancer who, after she’d been informed that she had from twenty-four to forty-eight of consciousness left, called me for help. Me? What did I know? I was a twenty-five-year psychologist barely out …

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Have you ever said “yes” when you meant “no”?

Practical Psychology: What Works and What’s Nuts Have you ever been in a relationship in which you felt ‘who you are’ was slip-slipping away? Maybe you stopped seeing your friends or family as often. Or you changed the way you dressed or the way you ordered from a menu. Not …

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Complaining is Bad for Your Health: “Eat it the Way It Is!”

Complaining is Bad for Your Health: “Eat it the Way It Is!” Back in graduate school I had a course in behavior modification design. The first assignment was to set up a plan to alter a self-destructive behavior of our own. Of course, the instructor did not recognize that, just …

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Bendicio Man, He Loves You

      Bendicio Man Having seen Bendicio (Blessing) man several times in different cities, I asked what he was about. He answered: “Love” . . .  in at least eight languages. He took time to tell this silly tourist type scurrying across Mexico City’s grand Reforma–patterned after the Avenue …

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