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How to Neutralize Bad Memories

You know those times when you’re minding your own business, and out of the blue, an old memory pops into your brain, making you cringe?  Suddenly, you’re back in time, reliving the event as if it were happening now?  This exercise will help you strip that...

Cast Away Your Negative Thoughts

There’s a lovely Jewish ritual called Tashlich, which in English means to “cast off.”  After atoning for your sins on Yom Kippur, you then throw breadcrumbs into a moving body of water on Rosh Hashana to symbolize casting off those sins to begin the...

What if You Really Are Unworthy?

Do you deserve happiness?  I don’t.  How do I know?  My brain tells me on a regular basis. I always thought that the one thing I could count on was the knowledge that I was a good person.  So, of course, when my brain can’t break through my defenses with...

Fight Your Negative Thoughts

“Think positive.”  “Your thoughts create your reality.”  We’ve all heard it.  Every great self-help book preaches some variation on this theme.  In fact, there is evidence that changing your habitual thoughts can actually change your brain in ways that will support...

Can’t Meditate? Try This Instead!

After years of habitual negative thoughts and anxieties, your brain is like a sludge covered  car engine. It still works; it just needs some care and cleaning to reveal the shine.   The happy memories, the peace, the joy – they’re all there somewhere;...