Living in Balance
According to Session 1, this is a process where the same amount of a drug has less effect, or more is needed to achieve the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
The recovery treatment aim, according to the Huberman/Soave podcast, is to increase this by helping people "learn how to feel bad" without reaching for quick relief.
What is Distress Tolerance?
QUOTE: Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Who is Carl Jung
Session 3: The four steps that lead from a trigger to a full relapse, beginning with Trigger and ending with Loss of Control.
What are Trigger, Thinking, Craving, and Loss of Control?
Laughter helps the body return to this state of physical balance after stress, which is often knocked out of whack by survival emotions.
What is Homeostasis?
Session 8 identifies frustration, pressure, and this as the three basic types of stressors.
What are Conflicts?
This practice is the quickest way to regulate your nervous system.
What is breath work
QUOTE: As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as in being able to remake ourselves.
Who is Mahatma Ganhdi
The model used in recovery to illustrate the downward spiral of addiction and the slower, upward climb of recovery.
What is the Jellinek Curve?
Bruce H. Lipton argues that 95% of our behavior is controlled by this part of the mind.
What is the Subconscious Mind?
What is the category of substances that includes LSD, MDMA, and PCP, which affect the central nervous system and cause perceptual changes. (Session 2)
What are Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic Drugs?
Dr. Dispenza's practice of trading one quick-hit behavior (like a substance or scrolling) for a natural reward like a walk, music, or sunlight.
What is the Dopamine Swap?
Dr. Joe Dispenza stated, "75 to 90% of every person that walks into a healthcare facility in the Western world walks in because of ".
What is Psychological or emotional stress?
Session 4 states that this is a gradual process involving a series of decisions, not a single event that happens suddenly.
What is Relapse?
Dr. Barrett's concept that your brain tracks and balances resources to prevent energy problems before they occur.
What is Allostasis?
A full program of recovery requires working the steps, using resources, and making these kinds of changes in relationships, work, and finances. (Session 4)
What are Lifestyle Changes?
Laughter and joy provide a positive input that helps replenish the brain's internal store of resources, a concept Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett calls the ____ ____.
What is the Body Budget?
This author and researcher explains that you can practice ‘seeding’ your brain with healthier experiences: reading, talking with safe people, learning, movement, art, nature. Over time, these become the raw materials your brain draws on when making emotional predictions.
Who is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett
According to Ryan Soave, quick "hot-fudge-sundae" hits of dopamine from substances make regular life feel this.
What is Dull (or less rewarding)?
The part of the brain, called the "CEO" in your handout, that must be activated to rationally evaluate a challenge and choose a mindful action over avoidance.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Session 11: This is the primary biological sign of anger listed in the curriculum, which is part of the body's fight-or-flight response.
What is an Increased Heart Rate (or Flushing/Sweating/Tension)?
The two words in the phrase used by Dr. Dispenza to describe the kind of emotions (like gratitude and appreciation) that change chemistry and improve immune function.
What are Elevated Emotions?
QUOTE: The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.
Who is Johann Hari
The daily self-check tool suggested by Ryan Soave that involves rating your mood, plan, and "watch-fors" (triggers).
What is the Emotional Weather Map?
The term for the brain's ability to physically rewire and strengthen neural pathways every time you successfully push through a difficult experience like the Ice Challenge.
What is Neuroplasticity?