Prescriptions For Healing the Brain

The Brain Prefrontal Cortex Prescriptions

• Rx 1: Clear focus on how you want to live.
• Rx 2: Focus on the penguins in your life, notice the behavior of others you like i.e.Fat Freddy (see "The Most Important Thing In Life I Learned From A Penguin!?").
• Rx 3: Have meaning, purpose, stimulation and excitement in your life to prevent shut down .
• Rx 4: Medications include stimulants, such as Ritalin, Cylert, Adderall, Desoxyn or Dexedrine.

Cingulate Prescriptions

• Rx 1: Notice when you're stuck, distract yourself and come back to the problem later.
• Rx 2: Don't try to convince someone else who is stuck, take a break and come back to them later.
• Rx 3: Write out options and solutions when you feel stuck.
• Rx 4: Seek the counsel of others when you feel stuck (often just talking about feeling stuck will open new options for you).
• Rx 5: Medications include Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Anafranil, Luvox, Serzone.

Temporal Lobe Prescriptions

• Rx 1: Strive for wonderful experiences
• Rx 2: Improve your ability to use words
• Rx 3: Sing whenever you can
• Rx 4: Listen to lots of music
• Rx 5: Move in rhythms
• Rx 6: Medications include Depakote, Tegretol, Neurontin, Dilantin and other anticonvulsants

Limbic Prescriptions

• Rx 1: Every thought matters! Kill the ANTs in your mind(see "ANTs and ANTEATERS").
• Rx 2: Surround yourself with people who provide positive bonding
• Rx 3: Great smells.
• Rx 4: Philippians 4:8 "Finally, bretheren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things."
• Rx 5: Medications include Norpramin, Tofranil, Wellbutrin and other antidepressants.

Summary of ANT (Automatic Negative Thoughts) Types:

• All or nothing thinking: thoughts are all good or all bad.
• Always thinking: using words like always, never, every one, every time.
• Focusing on the negative: only seeing bad in situation.
• Fortune telling: predicting the worst possible outcome.
• Mind reading: thinking you know what another person is thinking.
• Thinking with feelings: believing negative feelings without questioning them.
• Guilt beatings: should, must, ought or have to.
• Labeling: attaching negative labels.
• Blame: blaming someone else for your problems.

Basal Ganglia Prescriptions

• Rx 1: Understand the patterns and triggers from the past. Do an autobiography.
• Rx 2: Break the patterns of the past with conscious reprogramming (self-hypnosis, affirmations, clear focus).
• Rx 3: Predict the best. Kill the Fortune Telling ANTs (see "ANTs and ANTEATERS").
• Rx 4: Daily relaxation, biofeedback, meditation and diaphragmatic breathing.
• Rx 5: The 18/40/60 Rule (see "ANTs and ANTEATERS").
• Rx 6: Medications include Buspar, Xanax, Ativan and other antianxiety agents.

Conclusion: Your Brain Matters!

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