Your Habit Body; An Owner’s Manual; Gut-brain Axis 2.0

By Bruce Dickson

Second revised edition of Your Habit Body; An Owner’s Manual ~ Best Practices in Energy Medicine Series #5

What's a habit? One or more behaviors, conditioned to repeat. Habits are also reactivity conditioned to repeat, stored so they can be played back more automatically, with less conscious effort, than focusing to make a deliberate choice.

We have many habits, both conscious and unconscious. We have so many, categories help: Physical habits, Imaginal habits, Emotional habits, Mental habits, and Mythological habits. Convenient to talk about the sum of all these as a Habit Body.

Sound like a lot to manage? Our Habit Body manages these automatically for Conscious Waking Self. Our Habit Body is our nearest and dearest friend. It records and remembers daily routines for us, so we don't have to re-learn the same behaviors every day anew.

Our job as Conscious Wakeful Self? You and I, we’re the Habit Sequencers, the Behavior Schedulers, the Habit Managers and Superintendent of Behaviors. We manage-edit-revise-upgrade the habits our Habit Body readies to play back moment to moment.

This begs a question: If this is so, how come the thing human beings do better than anything else, is make the same mistake over and over and over again?

Bruce Lipton and others say only 5% of our psyche is exercise of conscious waking choice and decision-making. That's us from the neck-up. This 5% must balance the other 95% of our psyche which is memorized behaviors. Do you think the 5% feels overwhelmed at times? You're not alone, join the club.

Find new language here, built on the Three Selves, to get familiar with and gain access to managing the other 95% of your psyche, the Bigger You.

Within a modern study of the Habit Body are keys to practical epigenetics, best practices in belief change work. The Habit Body model is much clearer language for interfacing and navigating to--and when desired--changing unwanted habits. "Habit Body" is more user-friendly and substitutes for "subconscious" and "unconscious" in thousands of contexts.
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Author Bruce Dickson's most advanced work is in Holistic Brain Balance. He's been supporting clients professionally since 2001.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bruce Dickson
• Release date: Jun 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9780463567296

Bruce Dickson

Thanks to his mother, Bruce is a second generation nutrition-health-metaphysical researcher. Since 2001 he worked professionally as a Health Intuitive. He has lived in seven intentional communities and visited several more. He's visited 25 US Waldorf school communities. He's MSIA, PTS, Waldorf, USM, NVC trained and IFS-educated. He recently studied Iain McGilchrist's new brain-lateralization topics and wrote a REader's Digest version for friends..He's self-published several series of books-booklets:- Best Practices in Energy Medicine,- Holistic Brain Balance,- Best Practice in Group Process,- Growing Sustainable Children and Schools Worthy of Our Affectionhttps://medium.com/search?q=%22bruce%20dickson%22https://holisticbrainbalance.wordpress.com/http://blog.GoetheanScience.netBooklet series:- Growing Sustainable Children and Schools Worthy of Our Affection (5 short volumes)- Group Process as an Art-form (3 books)- Holistic Brain Balance (7 books-booklets)- Best Practices in Energy Medicine (20 books-booklets)- Book series: Group Process as an Art-form (3)- Book series: Best Practices in Energy Medicine all others- Book series: New Directions in Holistic Brain Balance (7)- Team Human, a theme for Waldorf K-12's second 100 years (5)ONLINEhttps://HolisticBrainBalance.wordpress.comhttp://blog.GoetheanScience.netGift initial sessions available by phone-Zoom if you have not worked with me professionally before.

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Your Habit Body; An Owner’s Manual

Gut-brain Axis 2.0

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Bruce Dickson, MSS, MA

Tools That Heal Press

Best Practices in Energy Medicine Series Vol. 5

HolisticBrainBalance.wordpress.com

The thing we are looking for,

is the thing we are looking with.

~ Ernest Holmes, Founder of Religious Science

The future is already here;

it’s just not very well distributed yet

~ William Gibson, author, Neuromancer

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Table of Contents

Tools That Heal Press book titles

Ch.1 ~ Can you pat your head and rub your tummy?

Why are addictions—so addictive?

Habiting per NLP and Wm. Glasser

The invisible butler did it

Role of repetition in habits

Habits as training periods

A habit is behavior running on a track

Alchemy of habit formation

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree

Ch.2 ~ Our Habit Body is our very best friend

Getting up in the morning

Habits are neutral, neither good nor bad

How we perceive a habit

All our habits are like speech accents

How are habits stored in my body?

Where is reactivity stored in my body?

Simplified geography of reactivity

An easier model of our unconscious

Habit Body as Reactivity—another best friend

Excess reactivity as excess-liking & excess-Disliking

Being of two minds is a top-bottom split

Habit Body as response-ability

Two biggest habits of all: safety and trust

Habits of safety and trust formed in utero

Third biggest habit: social permission

Ch. 3 ~ Sensory nature of our Habit Body

Ch. 4 ~ Balancing between habits (95%) and choice (5%)

Two indivisible units in our psyche

Definitions

We balance between habits and choice

How can 5% of my psyche balance 95%?

Choice as independent-critical thinking

I don’t feel like I even have 5% choice

When 95% overwhelms 5%

5% (soul) as conscience

Angel~devil on your shoulders

Is Choice vs. Habit Body the same as gut-brain axis?

Is our reptile brain our Habit Body?

Habit Body as instincts?

Other views of 95% vs. 5%

Ch. 5 ~ Traditional fairy tales about habits

The Hobbit in our habits

Ch. 6 ~ Four Anatomies of our Habit Body

A) Habit Body in Three Selves terms

B) sleeping <=> dreaming <=> waking

W<=>D<=>S is a two way street

Other applications of WDS

WDS in the light of Multiple Intelligences 2.0

C) Gestalt Cycle: rhythm of contact~withdrawal

Three levels of creativity

D) Spiritual Geography 101, PACME

Local culture is simply a collection of habits

Memories as unconscious habits

Terms for intensity of a habit

John-Roger on inner-cooperation

What does inner cooperation look like?

Ch. 7 ~ Our habits form around five universal needs (Glasser)

We are born with five universal needs

Diagram the priority of your needs now

Diagram the priority of your needs now

Ch. 8 ~ Habits as drama

Habit Body as Drama Body

Your Drama Inventory

Habits around roles of Victim, Persecutor, Rescuer

Addicted to trauma

Trauma bonding

Awfulizing and gossip

Ch. 9 ~ Workable habits as comfort zone

Each comfort zone is a bunch of habits

Comfort Zones as Homeostasis

Most meaningful joke in the world

You receive not because ye ask not

Habits: the Garden of Eden metaphor

Outgrowing my old comfort zones

The mechanism of dilemma and stuckness

What it takes to take risks

Comfort zones as ‘unconscious inertia’

Ch. 10 ~ Our unexamined habits become our illnesses

Denial keeps us from needed changing

physical illness are our modern gods

Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner

The shadow in pop culture fiction

The psychological shadow

Projection, blame and scapegoating

A pattern of physical healing

Shadow as blind spots in our psyche

Author’s personal experience with his own shadow

Why shadow work threatens people

Connection between Habit Body and self-concept

Relating positively with our own shadow

Another reason shadow work is not popular

Ch. 11 ~ Modern fairy tales about habits

Native American shadow story

The watch shop metaphor

The Clockwork Universe

Watch shop as multiple logical systems in harmony

Habit Body as hologram

Habit Body as Rubik’s Cube

Unworkable habits as my issues

Ch. 12 ~ Redirecting habits in children and adults

Changing habits thru willpower

We were all more lovable when we were young

Care-voyance

Redirecting habits in animals, training a new puppy

Not kill, not get rid of: redirect, re-educate, heal, redeem

Metaphor of the Good Shepherd

If the basic self has to learn its lessons all alone

Growth is upgrading our habits on any level

Ch. 13 ~ Habit Body as Reactivity

Reactivity is our best friend

WHY WE Deal with reactivity first

How much excess reactivity do I have?

The mechanism of dilemma and stuckness

Where is reactivity in my body?

Reactivity anatomy #1 top & bottom

Reactivity anatomy #2 with quadrants

Liking in behavioral terms

Reducing excess sympathies and antipathies

Excess liking-sympathy defined

Excess disliking-antipathy defined

How excess antipathy becomes gossip

Feeling sympathy~antipathy for the same person

The Ewwwww! reflex

Reactivity overcharged~undercharged

Animals have an Instinct Body

Ch. 14 ~ Why so difficult to change my habits?

Re-directing habits you wish to change

Ch. 15 ~ Why are addictions—so addictive?

Some addictive patterns

When beliefs are addictions

Habits are the etheric body fallen into matter

Ch. 16 ~ Our habits around pain, PACME

Physical pain in children before puberty

Pain PACME

Tony Robbins on constructive use of pain

Ch. 17 ~ Holistic Practitioner topics

22 overlapping names for the Habit Body

Q: Why are these overlapping?

Q: How intelligent is my Habit Body?

Habit Body as operating system

22 FUNCTIONALLY equal names

The Habit Body in Energy Medicine

Habit Body as etheric body

Ch. 18 ~ Behaviorism - taking habits seriously

Glasser’s critique of Behaviorism

Self-testing as getting serious about habits

Why are my muscle testing results unreliable?

Ch. 19 ~ Birth and death,

our two greatest learning experiences

Death, the other