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	<description>Recovery From Destructive Habits Using Modern Psychology &#38; Buddhist Philosophy</description>
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		<title>Hello, Darkness: Discovering Our Values by Confronting Our Fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steven Hayes Originally published by Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. Sep/Oct 2007 I keep a supply of Chinese finger traps in my office to show to patients. When you push your fingers into each end of these straw tubes and then try to remove them, the tube diameter shrinks and grabs the digits firmly. The more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Status Quo Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more difficult the decision we face, the more likely we are not to act, according to new research by UCL scientists that examines the neural pathways involved in &#8216;status quo bias&#8217; in the human brain. The study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at the decision-making of participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction &amp; Brain Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link to a lecture given by Dr. Gabor Maté to a Canadian First Nation group. He gives a great overview of some of the science behind substance addiction. He also gets to the root of passing the behavior to our children. This lecture is very educational and explains some of the &#8220;causes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stages of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you begin to make changes in your life, it might be useful to understand the process. The theory called the Stages of Change Model (SCM) describes the mind/body stages we go through when we do change. James Prochaska, Ph.D and Carlo Diclemente, Ph.D (1982) developed SCM  in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISARM Destructive Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Smart Buddhist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That voice we all hear in our head telling us to engage in destructive behaviors can be very convincing: it will try to rationalization, make up excuses, and lie relentlessly to get its way. So how do we fight giving in? Most people understand how to win an argument with a two-year old: don&#8217;t argue. [...]]]></description>
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