Benefits of Addiction

Cravings, bad habits, emotional addiction, and operating on autopilot create the many glitches in our daily lives that make you deviate from your visionary path. Your brain has tricks up its sleeve; they are intended to help you! But it can appear you are addicted to doing things the wrong way, while you have promised yourself that you will do it right! You are stressed and experience burnout, dissatisfaction, anxiety, and a dreaded loss of meaning despite your best intentions. Join us as we continue to lay the foundation for how you can live more intentionally. SHOW NOTES: Sign up for my mailing list to be notified about my upcoming book on how you can manage the storytelling of your subconscious mind to yoiur advantage! (00:55) - The invaluable benefits of storytelling - It is by the means of storytelling that you create your identity, your personality traits, and the many faces or facades you show in the world.  (07:10) - You are a goal pursuing machine - If your subconscious mind paints who you are in the most dismal shades of gloom without also showing the way out that is right for you, then so as to remain congruent with this picture that your subconscious paints of you, your subconscious mind will pursue goals that are not favorable to you.  (09:30) - And a prediction machine - Your mind is also a remarkable time traveler, constantly peering into the future before it unfolds. (13:35) - So what does Beyond Your Wildest Dreams mean? - How to create that vision withour falling into the pits of your subconscious mind is the task.  (17:44) - You want and you crave - Often unconsciously, you can begin to want and crave things even if you know that you won't enjoy them as much. (21:11) You have unhealthy emotional habits - It's very easy to get stuck in a cycle of self-relevant, strangely rewarding but negative thoughts, unable to break free. (29:12) - And you are trapped on autopilot? - You may find yourself trapped in "living on autopilot."  (32:33) - How can we live more intentionally? - We are beginning to scratch the surface of the visionary capacities of your brain.  (35:07) - The crucial role of stress - The experience of stress allows you to recognize those instances in which your brain falls into its subconscious pits. (42:26) - What does the life of a craving person really look like? - Want to take a peek at the lives of people who must confront their cravings and addictions daily, since it's live or die? Pick up my psychological thriller The Killingfields https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSTGM2D7  (50:20) - Exercise to break the autopilot craving cycle - Cognitive neurscience offers you manageable ways through the enchanted forest so you can use its symptoms of fear and stress to your advantage.  The early morning exercise is in my book The Miracle of Aging and Longevity at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJP8S1XS Pick up the book The Visionary Path, From Stress to Purpose for the fascinating neuroscience and more exercises: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DT4S2N5R Want to take a peek at the lives of people who unlike most of us must confront their cravings and addictions daily, since it's live or die? Pick up my psychological thriller The Killingfields https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSTGM2D7