Post #3 Replacement
Working on my habits.  I declared  at the Limitless Health Intensive that I really am a morning person.  I discovered this after 63 years of living.  Years ago, I gave up soda pop.   So, after I've declared it, how do I go about it?
My law of replacement says that in order to give up something, I should quickly replace it with something of greater value.  For example:  In order to give up soda pop, I replaced it with black cherry juice.  In order to give up ice cream, I replaced it with fruit smoothies.
So, how does this apply to getting up early?  Well, I replace the sleep I would get in the morning with sleep earlier in the evening.

The cool thing about this concept is that I am replacing the phony with the real.  (Real food for phony food)  So, if I have a craving for something, I can direct my mind to something I'd really rather have instead.   This is the same thing that we do with our thoughts.   When we give up our limiting beliefs and replace them with those that serve us better, we are taking out  the phony and putting in the real. 

Post #2 BRAIN CHANGE
In the process of Recovery, we learned from Dr. Donald Hilton that the brain actually changes when someone is addicted.  So my 2 BIG questions came up:

1.  If the brain of the person recovering from addiction has been changed, the spouse's brain has also been changed.  So that means, me, Catharine.  I don't really like the thought of a brain change!!
2.  If the brain is changed, what is the process by which it is changed back--actually changed to even better than it was before?

OK, so this has become our quest.  What is the process by which we can create new neural pathways and strengthen them?
We've come up with some pretty exciting answers and processes.  Are you interested?  Of course you are!  How would you answer the two questions above?  (more to come)

Post #1 Making friends with anger

For so many years I didn't know what to do with the anger that came to visit.   I thought I had to fight-to defend myself.  OR I thought I had to run from it because it was a monster. OR (and this has been my favorite), I thought I had to stuff it and pretend it was not there only to be appalled when it came spewing out like a volcano.  I even stuffed other people's anger and pretended it was mine.
These three responses, otherwise known as FIGHT, FLIGHT, and FREEZE, don't help me.  I thought to myself:  "Self, there has got to be something else!"
First of all, I realized that anger and an angry response are 2 different things.  We can train ourselves to feel the anger and still make rational choices.
If anger is not an enemy, or a monster, or something that makes me sick to my stomach, what is it?
Anger is a friend.  It tells me when something needs to change.
I don't have to FIGHT, FLIGHT, or FREEZE, I can FLOAT.
Floating will be explained in a later blog.  One thing I will tell you is that it's cool.