Rewiring Your Self to Break Addictions and Habits
Overcoming Problem Patterns
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2009
292 pages
978-0-313-35389-5 (ISBN)
Description
Considering the many ways people seek emotional pleasure, relaxation or escape in self-harmful ways - from excessive alcohol use and drug abuse to smoking, overeating, compulsive gambling, out-of-control spending and even lesser behaviors like habitual nail-biting - there are few of us who do not have, or know someone close who has, an addiction or habit they wish they could break. The problem common to all, says author Browne-Miller, is that psychological reactions to events have motivated behaviors which, in turn, have created biochemical reactions in the brain that actually wires it for repeating the habit or addiction. In this groundbreaking book, Browne-Miller explains simply and clearly how we can control our thoughts to rewire the brain and beat the pattern that spurs repeating harmful habits, and addictions.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Illustrations
39 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-0-313-35389-5 (9780313353895)
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11/2009
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Person
Dr. Angela Browne-Miller is the founder of Addiction Stoppers based in northern California, director of Metaxis Institute based in northern California, and has been a keynote speaker at conferences around the world on addiction, violence, trauma, and behavior change. She is set editor for the Praeger International Collection on Addictions, 4 vols., and is the author of Praeger's To Have and to Hurt: Seeing, Changing or Escaping Patterns of Abuse in Relationships and Raising Thinking Children and Teens: Guiding Mental and Moral Development.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- PART ONE: RECOGNIZING POWERFUL PATTERN ADDICTIONS AROUND AND WITHIN US
- 1. Survival and Counter-Survival
- Survival?
- Gratification?
- 2. The Problem of the Problem Addiction Industry
- Example: The Matter of Stimulants Such As Cocaine and Meth
- Example: Legal and Illegal Opioids
- Example: The Question of Right Use As Per Cannabis
- Age at First Use
- Always Emerging Addictions
- Altered States of Consciousness (ASCs)
- Example: Addiction to Legal Drugs Such As Smoking and
- Coffee Drinking Are There Levels of Acceptable Use?
- Example: Prescription Drugs and Even Household Substances
- Nondrug Addictions
- The Problem Addiction Industry
- 3. Overarching Problem Conditions: Chemicalization and Mechanization
- Overarching Addiction Condition One: Chemicalization
- Overarching Addiction Condition Two: Mechanization
- 4. Problem States of Mind: Addictive Materialism and Addictive Inadequacy
- Addictive Materialism
- Addictive Inadequacy
- These Addictions Apply to All of Us
- 5. Creatures of Habitual Addiction
- Automatic Behavior All Around and Within
- Parallels between Drug and Nondrug Addictions
- Example: Food Addiction
- Example: Shopping/Spending Addiction
- Example: Work Addiction
- Key Realities
- 6. Creatures of Pleasure and Stimulation
- The Compelling Pleasure Pathway
- Example: Alcohol and Beta-Endorphine Craving
- Pleasure and Relief from Pain and Discomfort As Pleasure
- Example: Consider Heroin and Morphine Withdrawals
- Tolerance and Diminishing Returns
- Example: Commonplace Caffeine Addiction
- Example: The Smoking Gun of Nicotine Addiction
- Nondrug Addiction Stimulation of Pleasure Pathways
- Example: Food, Sex, and Runaway Dimensions of Our Coding
- Continued Use and Engagement
- 7. When Good Judgment Falls by the Wayside
- When Good Judgment Is Not Working
- Wise and Right Use of Decision-Making Ability
- Decision Making Is Central
- Making a Good Decision Is a Process
- Decision Making and Problem Solving: The How Matters Here
- With Maturity Can Come Better Decision-Making Processes, But When Is Maturity?
- The Greater Good
- 8. Addiction and Excessive Consumption
- In Excess
- Several Types of Excess
- The Consumption Trap
- PART TWO: RECOGNIZING OUR POWERFUL INNER CODING TO BE PATTERN-ADDICTED
- 9. Our Rigid Yet Paradoxical Addictions to What We See As Reality
- We Can Even Resist Healing Change
- Our Rigid Yet Paradoxical Addiction to the Patterned
- State Itself The Tug of Choice
- Explicit and Implicit Addictions
- Hidden Implicit Patterning
- Underlying Source Patterning to be Addicted to a Reality
- 10. Underlying Source Patterning Driving All Addictions
- Survival Relies on This Programming
- Risk and Stimulation As Triggers for Gambling and
- Gambling with Life 11. Slaves to Attentional Bias
- Attentional Bias Programming
- Conscious Attention to Triggers
- Bad Learnings
- Triggers Themselves May Induce Highs
- 12. Degraded Decision-Making Functioning
- Go and No-Go
- Action Selecting and Inhibiting
- 13. Compromised Thinking and Situation Responsivity
- Situations, Situations, Situations
- Executive Control
- Action Selection Decisions Respond to Situations
- PART THREE: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROMOTING SITUATIONAL TRANSCENDENCE
- 14. The Case for Situational Transcendence
- Situation Dependence and Situation Restriction
- Addiction-Specific Situations
- 15. Patterns of Progression into Problem Addiction Situations
- Casual to Regular
- Regular to Troubled
- Troubled to Addicted
- Descent into Detrimental Pattern Addiction
- The Freeing and Right Use of Our Energy
- 16. Achieving Situational Transcendence
- Condition One: Commitment
- Condition Two: Attention
- Condition Three: Fortitude
- Condition Four: Faith
- Conditions for Situational Transcendence
- 17. Phases of Situational Transcendence
- Phase Characteristics
- Phase 1: Struggle
- Phase 2: Paradox
- Phase 3: Insight
- Phase 4: Elevation
- Life Phases and Patterns
- No One's Life Pattern Is Written in Stone
- 18. Foundations of Situational Transcendence of Addiction
- Idea One
- Idea Two
- Idea Three
- Idea Four
- Idea Five
- Idea Six
- Idea Seven
- PART FOUR: CONDUCTING LIFESTYLE SURGERY
- 19. Lifestyle Surgery: Breaking Addiction
- The Reaching Hand
- Overcoming Programming
- Doing Something New
- Elements of Addictive Patterning Cycle
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- 20. Dictionary of Triggers
- Problem Area One: Practical Triggers
- Problem Area Two: Temporal Triggers
- Problem Area Three: Environmental Triggers
- Problem Area Four: Media Triggers
- Problem Area Five: Emotional Triggers
- Problem Area Six: Spiritual Triggers
- Problem Area Seven: Social Triggers
- Problem Area Eight: Physical Triggers
- Problem Area Nine: Nutritional Triggers
- Problem Area Ten: Chemical Triggers
- 21. Trigger Charting: Seeing the Addiction Process
- Mapping Addiction
- Ongoing Charting
- 22. Life Management Planning
- A Life Management Plan
- PART FIVE: KNOWING ADDICTION
- 23. Addiction As a Family and Social System Affair
- Chemical Dependence
- Haven in a Heartless World?
- The Symptoms and Effects of Family Drug Problems
- Lies
- Communication Breakdowns
- Grudge Developments
- Hurts
- Familial Co-Addictions
- Practical Difficulties And Simple Catastrophes
- 24. Protecting the Children of Our Patterns
- Carriers of Patterns?
- Teaching Denial
- Harsh and Painful Reality
- Children Have a Right to This Information
- Conflict of Interests
- Fading Heart
- 25. When ''Love'' or What Appears As Love Is Too Much
- Why ''Love'' Is Relevant to Drug and Other Addictions- Which We Also Think We Love
- Checkpoints along the Path to Violence
- Tolerance Can Be Dangerous
- Conflicting Experience
- Establishing and Maintaining Healthy Patterns
- Love?
- Habits Sneak Up on Us
- Running into Someone's Arms, Anyone's
- Emotional Sadomasochism
- Like Is Too Simple a Word for Love or Drug Addictions
- When Relationships Like Drugs Kill
- 26. Rethinking Recovery As Discovery
- Limitations in Our Thinking
- Rethinking Addiction
- Suggesting the Discovery Model
- 27. A Note About Synaptic Rights
- The Synapse
- Mental Chemistry
- Addicting the Brain
- The Other Face
- 28. Epilogue: Calling for Complete Overhaul
- Substance Addiction As an Example
- The Choicepoint
- Overhaul Is Key to Healing Pattern Affliction
- Bibliography
- Index
