Behaviors and habits are altered by changing the future with novel actions today. “We have come to accept our past history as our fate but tomorrow’s history is still to be written.” From the RenChenZa® 7 Step program © 2000 –2009 Andrew Ledford.
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Art of Living a Good Life
Self cultivation – education, training, and development of our emotional and cognitive abilities To live a good life includes what in Buddhism is called the eight fold path. The eight fold path consists of the right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. We need...
Behavior Patterns, Orientation, and Behavioral Themes
Behavior patterns make it so we don’t need to waist our precious resources of time and energy on decision making. An orientation or behavioral theme makes certain behaviors more reinforcing than others. Our orientation determines what in life we think about and what we work toward. Our orientation determines our goals. Within an individual’s...
Critical Thinking and Emotions
Most of our decisions are based emotions. The problem with this is that our emotions cloud and distort critical thought. When in an aroused emotional state it’s often difficult to make good decisions. In dog training I see this principal when people get angry. A common reaction to anger is to lash out with...
Selfishness and Self Destruction
I am not totally opposed to selfish behavior. After all selfish behavior is the basis for learning. We all want to know what’s in it for me. We all want to get a payoff for our effort. Making a profit or being reinforced for a behavior is not bad. However, when we go out...
Accept That Life Is Not Easy
Life involves struggle and effort. Survival takes effort and for the most part is based on selfish competition. We must acknowledge the competitive nature of survival as we make every effort to rise above our primitive heritage. The less we need the better we can be. The more we care about and help others...
Accept Your History, Change Your History
Much of human behavior is under the control of species specific behavior that we are unaware of, and the same is true for dog. In dog training we learn that it is possible to change how the dog behaves, but difficult to get rid of instinctive behavior.
Accept your emotions
Primitive emotions are often at odds with critical thought. While we strive to be logical our emotions dictate much of what we do. Emotions do have their place in decision making. While emotions can be an ally in decision making they are more often the saboteur. We need to learn when it’s best to...
The Rules of Nature
One of the most important Points of Reference in the RenChenZa® seven step program would have to be the Rules of Nature. In the RenChenZa® model we can think of the Rules of Nature as the ruler of the other Points of Reference. This is because the Rules of Nature actually govern everything that...