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"The Habit Loop"

 Exploring cravings, compulsions, addictions and programs that run our lives." 
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Join us as we learn how to identify the cue, routine, and reward of habit patterns within the context of a healing session. 

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Which unfulfilling habits are delaying happiness of you, a family member or client?

Which one habit would change today?​

​Are you ready for positive change?

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Benefits for the BodyTalk Practitioner
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• Deeper knowledge of body-mind pathways
• Understand chemical reward systems
• Balance behavior patterns on a deeper level
• Reveal learned coping mechanisms
• Address family patterns and ancestral influences
• Explore and discuss examples of links-formulas and protocol chart connections within a session​

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​Learn practical ways of integrating the information to enhance your BodyTalk and energy medicine healing sessions. 

Each week we explore together the physiology, emotional, expressions of consciousness, belief systems, 5 Elements influences, Chakra and Meridian connections, and environmental influences of the topics below.
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• What five questions you should ask of every habit or decision 
• Understanding the collective consciousness of our habits.
• Let's explore the differences between the creative mind vs. habit mind. 
• Going cold turkey vs. collapsing the quantum waveform.
• "Breaking Bad" - where is that pre-frontal cortex when you need it?
• Which protein supports neuroplasty (laying down new nerve pathways)?
• "Ground Hog Day" Why is your present habit a replay of your past?
• Where does "will power" reside in the brain?
• Over consumption: addictions of alcohol, sex, smoking, food and purchasing
• Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and addiction.
• "Relax, Don't Do It!" - role of the insular cortex.
• A near miss or big win, which one fuels the compulsive gambler?
• "The Gate Keeper of Dopamine." 
• "The Wonder Years" - the most important seven years of your programming. 
• What area in the brain regulates our past, present, and future emotions.
• How do you spell relief? A.V.O.I.D.A.N.C.E. 
• "The Informant" - amygdala's role in addiction.
• "Less Than Zero" - the price of isolation and the likelihood of relapse.​
• Good, bad and ugly of Cortisol.
• "Fortune Tellers" - understanding the role of dopamine neurons.

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• Good, bad and ugly of Cortisol.
• "Fortune Tellers" - understanding the role of dopamine neurons.
• Vagus Nerve's role in cravings and addictions.
• PTSD - which area of the brain is unable to activate during stress?
• Storage Wars - basal ganglia role in habit formation and memory. 
• "False Alarm!" - what area of the brain shuts down stress response?
• Cocaine and McDonald's french fries - why it's all the same to your brain?
• How do habits make your brain work less?
• "Myth Busters"  does it really take 21 days to make or break a habit?
• The quickest path to chocolate is down the "path most traveled" 
• How do stored habits "put our brain to sleep?"
• Food Fight! Leptin vs Ghrelin, food compulsions and cravings
• The gut brain's role in addiction relapse. 
• "FARCE" BOOK - the loneliness of social media and screen time relationships.
• "Get by with a little help from my friends" - discover why lab rats need friends too!
• Portugal's paradigm shift for addiction rehab.
• The "Joy Plant" epidemic.
• Pavlovian Marketing - How Wal-Mart knows what you want before you arrive
• ​and much more....

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Week 1 - "The Birth of a Habit" -
"The Loop Formation," eight categories of habits, the epicenter of rewards, basal ganglia vault, liaison of the limbic system, role of the pre-frontal cortex, fetal programming, and the "Dopamine Factory."
                                  
* Week 2 - "The Magnificent Seven" -
Let's explore the functions and characteristics of Dopamine and Serotonin, four dopamine pathways of habits in the brain, serotonin pathways,  "The Dopamine Factory," significance of the Gut- Brain in serotonin.
                                                                                       
Week 3 - "Cravings - A Desire for Stability" -  
Stomach hunger vs. mind hunger, three types of food cravings, microbiome fetal life and acquired tastes, food consumption signals of ghrelin vs. leptin, compulsive eating, vagus nerve and eating disorders, poisoning the gut brain microbiome

Week 4 - "Sound the Alarm!" - 
"Threat" based habits, over indulgence vs. over avoidance, who is the brain's "stress informant"?, true threats vs. an inconvenience, cortisol a friend or foe?, how does worrying provide relief?, chronic anxiety, self generated threats, emotional regulation of our past, present and future, PTSD and substance P.
                                                                                               
Week 5 - "Addiction: What Is In Your Cage?" - 
"Reward" based habits, why does society punish addictions?, benefits of "Bonding in Rat Park", The Big Four emotions of relapse, "gut brain sobriety", the lonely addiction of social media, common denominator of relapse, opiod hijacking  

Week 6 -  "Neuroplasty of New Habits" - 
Five characteristics of a fulfilling habit, habits of the collective consciousness, supra-mental collapse of habits vs. "going cold turkey", neurotransmitters that support new habit formation

* Week 7 - Group Healing Session and Guided Meditation (facilitated by Angela)

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Participants will receive:

• Seven weeks of live events (all recorded and emailed to you)
• Weekly habit coaching with exercises to increase your success
• Audio downloads
• Slide presentations with audio
• Printable notes for personal study 
• ALL events are recorded and emailed to you
• Group healing session on Week 2
• Guided meditation on Week 7
• Group healing session on Week 7 ​​

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