"We become what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is a habit."
- Aristotle
- Aristotle
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The uniqueness of The ALKISTIS Method® is that it effectively integrates modern scientific, evidence-based techniques such as neurocoaching, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), etc., with the ageless wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy for achieving optimum results.
Science has advanced a lot since the time of the ancient philosophers and has added a great deal of knowledge to the matters they discussed. The amazing thing though, is that the basic insights they developed back then are still valid, relevant and widely used today. |
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The ancient philosophers may, have been wrong about some of the scientific details as regards the physiology of the brain, but everything they said about the functioning of our mind and how we can improve it was correct and still forms the basis of many of today’s evidence based psychotherapies, like Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP).
The reason for this, is that no matter how much our knowledge and technology have advanced, we still have to deal with the same basic issues - unhealthy emotions like fear, frustration, anger and anxiety, and our search for Eudaimonia. |
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Rewiring your Brain:
From Fear, Frustration and Anxiety to Calm, Confidence and Self-leadership. People spend the majority of their life living under stress. Stress is when your body's knocked out of ‘order’ (homeostasis); the stress response is what your body innately does to return itself back to ‘order’. That's the first definition of resilience . Human beings can turn on/ff the stress response just by thought alone. |
When you combine a clear intention with an elevated emotion that's heartfelt, you move into a new state of being. You can begin to remind yourself every single day of who you want to be. Through regular practices, like meditation, you begin to cause your brain to fire in new sequences and new patterns and new combinations and you make your brain work differently. According to neuroscience your brain begins to fire and create new circuits. You are essentially rewiring your brain. (See the image showing 'neurogenesis'.)
When you are asking open-ended questions, the frontal brain lobe, like a great symphony leader, looks out of the landscape of the entire brain and begins to select different networks of neurons and seamlessly pieces them together to create a new mind. The moment the brain begins to fire in tandem, the frontal lobe creates a picture. That picture is called an intention and when you can make that picture more real than anything else and you begin to feel inspired by it, and your body's no longer living in the past, you begin a new state of being, with new values and actions. This creates a new reality.
The more we practice a new state, the more it becomes the default setting. Scientific studies have shown that it takes as little as sixty-six days to take on a new habit. Many Askesis in The ALKISTIS Method® aim to create new habits and new default settings, for new outcomes.
The more we practice a new state, the more it becomes the default setting. Scientific studies have shown that it takes as little as sixty-six days to take on a new habit. Many Askesis in The ALKISTIS Method® aim to create new habits and new default settings, for new outcomes.
Try this practice, called “Prohairesis”: The next time you have an urge to get angry, to grab a cigarette, to gobble a cupcake, to waste your precious working time on social media, (or any other negative habit), wait about ten minutes or count to 500 before you do it; Say to yourself in a loving way (never mean), “I will allow you to get angry, I will allow you to smoke, I will allow you to grab that cupcake, I will allow you to interrupt your work on this important project to scan Facebook, but in ten minutes from now. If you still have that urge to do so, I will allow it.”
Note: Some (mistaken) theories say to count to ten backwards and then do it, but scientific studies show that it takes ten minutes for this ‘wave of desire’ to pass. (For more on this, a good book is, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, by Nir Eyal.)
Note: Some (mistaken) theories say to count to ten backwards and then do it, but scientific studies show that it takes ten minutes for this ‘wave of desire’ to pass. (For more on this, a good book is, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, by Nir Eyal.)
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The Chemicals of Happiness & Ways to Hack Them
When we ask ourselves what makes us happy, we often think of the circumstances, possessions, or people in our lives. In reality, happiness is largely a chemical experience. Four main neurochemicals, hormones, and neurotransmitters generated in the brain are fundamentally responsible for creating the sensations and emotions we’ve come to associate with happiness. Hormones are chemicals produced by different glands across your body. They travel through the bloodstream, acting as messengers and playing a part in many bodily processes. One of these important functions? Helping regulate your mood. Here’s a brief summary of the four ‘Happiness Chemicals’. |
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That's all for now dear Lover of Wisdom, you have come a long way from when you first started this course. Think of all the progress you have made, from when you started this course.
And now, you you are about to GRADUATE from Level 1. Click here to go to your GRADUATION! |
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