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		<title>Changing Patterns</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/1091</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey- I posted this about a year ago. This version is an update. Enjoy. Post your feedback in the &#8216;comments&#8217; below. Thanks! This handout outlines ways you can change your behavior patterns. But first, some words from a former President of the United States: &#8220;Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Aspects of Mindfulness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behavioral scientists are quite interested in mindfulness. Here’s some research-based info. A researcher named Baer derived five aspects, or dimensions, of mindfulness after a lot of quantitative analysis. Baer describes these five aspects as Observing, Describing, Acting with awareness/non-auto pilot, Nonjudging of experiences, and Nonreacting to inner experiences. Here’s an easy to read layout. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindful Walking</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/1078</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 15:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to a 9 minute mindful walking audio I made a few weeks ago. While I talk about getting calm and grounded in the audio, I should note that mindful walking is a way to contact the present moment- it is a great way to get out of your head and into your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooked or unhooked?</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/1076</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 14:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you hooked or unhooked at the moment? This is a helpful thing to notice. When we are unhooked, we are in a space of open focus. We are not focused, we are not hooked, on mental experiencing or 5 senses experiencing. Just open. Unhooked by anything. Not really noticing anything in particular. Broad, open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observe your mind before you react</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/1068</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our unconscious automatic reactions make us miserable. What’s wrong when you’ve tried and you just don’t seem to change? Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) sees psychological flexibility as central to living a mentally and emotionally healthy life. Managing the moment you are actually living in right this second requires you to be psychologically nimble and adaptive. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All affect is interior</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/1053</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little passage from Inner Gold, a book Arnie Kotler put together from some lectures by Robert A. Johnson. Arnie is a friend and a former teacher of mine. Robert A. Johnson is a psychoanalyst. I am going to quote the entire passage first so you can read it as one piece and get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathe better, feel better</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/921</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fitness & Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cliff&#8217;s notes: I am a provider for Magellan Behavioral Health- I found their on their website.  A nice concise piece of wisdom. Are you breathing for optimum health? Slow and controlled inhaling and exhaling can help you relax under tension or stress. Stand up and breathe deeply. As you inhale, does your belly go in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you suffer from the Semmelweis Reflex?</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/883</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subtitled: An uncertain mind sometimes deals with Reality better than a mind that is certain “It ain&#8217;t what we don&#8217;t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know for sure that just ain&#8217;t so” ~Will Rogers I love that Will Rogers quote. It captures, in a humorous way, the essence of the human predicament. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom from your suffering is possible</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/609</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People do not come to my office because of physical or emotional pain- they come see me because they are suffering. I like that old saying &#8216;pain is inevitable, suffering is optional&#8217;. There is a big difference between authentic emotion and human suffering. Suffering is a fact of the human condition. However, it is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About that word ‘zen’&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://askdrcliff.com/archives/588</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About that word ‘zen’. Don&#8217;t be scared of the word zen. After all, it is just a word. The word ‘zen’ has a lot of different meanings.  In the context of me and my psychology practice, zen is simply a word that points to Awareness Practice. Although zen originated as a Japanese Buddhist practice, it [...]]]></description>
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