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		<title>Building Block 2. Identify Your Needs and Resources For CP #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      Usually when people decide to change a behavior it is because that behavior is interfering in some way with meeting personal needs or accomplishing other goals in life. In this Building Block we will give you some tips on how to both identify those needs (and make use of them]]></description>
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      Usually when people decide to change a behavior it is because that behavior is interfering in some way with meeting personal needs or accomplishing other goals in life. In this Building Block we will give you some tips on how to both identify those needs (and make use of them  <div class="rw-left"><div class="rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-26710"></div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Building Block 1. Identify “Triggers” for CP #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      Regardless of what kind of behavior you are trying to change, it is a virtual certainty that the behavior occurs at some times, and in some settings, or when you are with some people, but not all the time. Those times, settings and people are “triggers” for the behavior—they act]]></description>
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      Regardless of what kind of behavior you are trying to change, it is a virtual certainty that the behavior occurs at some times, and in some settings, or when you are with some people, but not all the time. Those times, settings and people are “triggers” for the behavior—they act  <div class="rw-left"><div class="rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-26690"></div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Building Blocks for Core Principle #2</title>
		<link>http://aa2.org/building-blocks-for-core-principle-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Core Change Principles Building Blocks]]></category>
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      As you learned in the ChangeTalk on Core Principle #2 change most often occurs in small steps. In the following Building Blocks, we will give you some approaches that you can put together in whatever way you choose to make your change a reality. Although we suggest that you do]]></description>
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      As you learned in the ChangeTalk on Core Principle #2 change most often occurs in small steps. In the following Building Blocks, we will give you some approaches that you can put together in whatever way you choose to make your change a reality. Although we suggest that you do  <div class="rw-left"><div class="rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-26650"></div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Core Principle #5 : Finding out the why of your behavior (childhood trauma) will not make you stop it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      Humans always want to know “why?”  We have come to believe that if we know the reasons something has happened, we can somehow control it, or it will simply go away. But “why” and “reasons” are not simple. The causes of human behavior are extremely complicated, especially when we look]]></description>
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      Humans always want to know “why?”  We have come to believe that if we know the reasons something has happened, we can somehow control it, or it will simply go away. But “why” and “reasons” are not simple. The causes of human behavior are extremely complicated, especially when we look  <div class="rw-left"><div class="rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-26530"></div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Building Block 1. Relaxation and Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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      One of the reasons feelings are often so hard to manage is that they usually involve some pattern of bodily arousal that seems to be beyond our direct control. However, many decades of research and thousands of years of human experience have provided us with some very effective ways of]]></description>
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      One of the reasons feelings are often so hard to manage is that they usually involve some pattern of bodily arousal that seems to be beyond our direct control. However, many decades of research and thousands of years of human experience have provided us with some very effective ways of  <div class="rw-left"><div class="rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-26140"></div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Building Block #2 Using the STORC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      Researchers Kathleen Carroll from Yale and Bill Miller (now retired, but formerly of the University of New Mexico) and their colleagues have developed an approach to managing negative feelings that is referred to by the acronym STORC. STORC stands for Situation Thought patterns Organismic (physical) responses Response patterns Consequences By]]></description>
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      Researchers Kathleen Carroll from Yale and Bill Miller (now retired, but formerly of the University of New Mexico) and their colleagues have developed an approach to managing negative feelings that is referred to by the acronym STORC. STORC stands for  Situation Thought patterns Organismic (physical) responses Response patterns Consequences  By  <div class="rw-left"><div class="rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-26090"></div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Building Block # 3. Anger—the cruelest emotion!</title>
		<link>http://aa2.org/building-block-3-anger%e2%80%94the-cruelest-emotion-2/</link>
		<comments>http://aa2.org/building-block-3-anger%e2%80%94the-cruelest-emotion-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      In this Building Block we want to spend a few moments addressing anger—the hot blooded emotion that is often the main trigger for behaviors that we find rewarding, but that are really unhealthy for us. First, let us say that the basics we have outlined in the first two Building]]></description>
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		<title>Building Blocks for CP #3: Understanding and managing your feelings are the keys to change.</title>
		<link>http://aa2.org/core-principle-3-building-blocks-understanding-and-managing-your-feelings-are-the-keys-to-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      In CP #2 we talked about the importance of understanding triggers for the behavior you want to change, and we suggested some exercises you could do in order to better understand your particular triggers. You may have noticed that one of the main kinds of trigger you noticed were feelings]]></description>
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      In CP #2 we talked about the importance of understanding triggers for the behavior you want to change, and we suggested some exercises you could do in order to better understand your particular triggers. You may have noticed that one of the main kinds of trigger you noticed were feelings  <div class="rw-left"><div class="rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-26030"></div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Video Tools</title>
		<link>http://aa2.org/video-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Apps</title>
		<link>http://aa2.org/apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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