New Year's Resolutions

[nnuut]

Not to me. I don't dream about smoking.

I DO crave a smoke every now and then. But not in my dreams. Today it was about two or three times during the day I wanted one. But it lasted only for a few minutes, and I moved on.

Jim have you had any weight gain after quitting smoking? :suspicious:

 

[Birchtree]

My New Year resolution is to make $million #4 off the March'09 low and keep the news to myself - I know the IRS is watching.

 

[Rod]

I am RESOLUTE to retire from the USAF!!!

And I SHALL!!!

 

[nnuut]

I am RESOLUTE to retire from the USAF!!!

And I SHALL!!!

That's the spirit!!!!! A milestone and mailbox money!

 

[Frixxxx]

I am RESOLUTE to retire from the USAF!!!

And I SHALL!!!

Put up your countdown brotha!

That's the spirit!!!!! A milestone and mailbox money!

Mailbox Money......Nice.....

 

[jimijr]

More beer, less coffee!

 

[burrocrat]

I'll give them a try...

dude, you should check out dr. wanda.

i just heard a commercial the other day while driving, it just struck me out of the blue, the link doesn't do it justice, but did you know she can just rewire your brain, by cd?

http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumid=ALB000054686

the brain can repattern, remap or redirect itself to make changes at the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level. Using repetitive suggestions

serious, just looking for solutions, whatever it takes.

 

[alevin]

I just finished reading a fairly serious nonfiction science-for-nontechnical people book on the subject of the mind's ability to rewire itself-just a couple weeks ago.

It takes concentration and focus, but they've shown that physical rewiring of synapses actually can and does take place. even across brain hemispheres, purely by standing back and objectively observing/noticing your own thoughts and emotions and choosing to change those thoughts. Fascinating. People who lose limb function from a stroke can sometimes recover functionality, just by thinking really hard, it creates new synapses to another part of the brain that takes over the function of the part of the brain that got damaged. Shows that free will is alive and still kicking-literally.

I found the book at Barnes and Noble. Called The Mind and the Brain, by Jeffrey Schwartz, MD and Sharon Begley. 2003. Really enjoyed reading it and thinking about the implications, if more people only knew what's possible.

 

[Steel_Magnolia]

...the brain can repattern, remap or redirect itself to make changes at the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level. Using repetitive suggestions ....

It's true on at least a physical level. My SIL who has MS and I both go to a neuro-physical therapist who teaches us the repetitive motions we need to make, or try to make, to remap our brains in order to help recover lost mobility or muscle pattern.

In simple terms, I just try something over and over (and over!) while my brain is rewiring a new way to accomplish it.

If it works with physical things, it seems like it should work on other levels as well, right?

 

[alevin]

It's true on at least a physical level. My SIL who has MS and I both go to a neuro-physical therapist who teaches us the repetitive motions we need to make, or try to make, to remap our brains in order to help recover lost mobility or muscle pattern.

In simple terms, I just try something over and over (and over!) while my brain is rewiring a new way to accomplish it.

If it works with physical things, it seems like it should work on other levels as well, right?

It's been shown to work on mental-emotional levels as well-people with obsessive-compulsive disorder have been able to rewire their brains such that they no longer are controlled by their compulsions and obsessions-its a physical brain rewiring process brought about by mental practice.

That's the reason I bought the book, I have a young family member with the disorder, I'd love to see her life changed and have her become free of the compulsions, they definitely have impacted her social integration into society in times past and impact family members as well.

 

[burrocrat]

...mental practice...impacted ... social integration into society

oh i can relate, and i don't even have a sister in law.

but who wants to be integrated into society anyways?

unless yournamehere is seven of nine.

 

[alevin]

When a young person is so impacted by their condition that they can't hold a job or even graduate high school even tho they are intelligent, it's well worth hoping and looking for answers that would help them make their way in life without depending on family forever.

 

[burrocrat]

so i been doing some thinkin on this, look out.

i agree with most of it, anything's possible with enough determination and no quit. but something just isn't right.

use 'repetitive suggestion' to cure 'compulsive behavior'? which came first the chicken or the egg? isn't one just an extension of the other, channeled differently?

it's like trying to find the matches in the dark so you can light the kerosene lamp to see in the dark so you can find the matches. does not compute.

man this psychology stuff id hard, makes my head hurt, jackwagon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA

 

[Buster]

I found the book at Barnes and Noble. Called The Mind and the Brain, by Jeffrey Schwartz, MD and Sharon Begley. 2003. Really enjoyed reading it and thinking about the implications, if more people only knew what's possible.

I just down-loaded this book to my Kindle.. $11.99:blink:..

Nanyways..looks like a long read (over 7000 pages) ..but I will definately read it and report back on what or how I liked it.