Human Services 200 Understanding Addictive Behavior

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Winter Term 2004
• Week 4
• Day 1 Tuesday 1/27/04
• Social Learning and Family Systems
• Actual Content Cultural Views and Psychology
• Readings Text Thombs Chapters 5 - 6, Washton
  Ch. 6

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Live Call in 741- 9132
• E-mail questions during class LiveClass_at_lanecc.ed
  u
• Website
• http//teach.lanecc.edu/harrism
• Online syllabus
• http//teach.lanecc.edu/harrism/hs200s04syl.htm

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5 Cultural Views of Addiction

• 1. Addiction as Sin Willful Misbehavior
• Solution Punish the Addict
• 2. Addiction as Disease
• Solution Treat the Addict with 12 Step Based
  Treatment
• 3. Addiction as Maladaptive Behavior
• Solution Treat and teach the addict pro-social
  Adaptive Behaviors and Skills

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Maladaptive Behavior

• Cocaine addicts are thought to select cocaine for
  relief from depression, boredom, or emptiness.
  Cocaine bolsters feelings of self-esteem and
  assertiveness.

• CONCRETIZATION
• Clients do not articulate their feelings. This is
  considered normal for children and young
  adolescents.
• In chemically dependent adults it is considered a
  developmental lag.
• When you start using the lag begins. Stop using
  you start developing from that point.

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5 Cultural Views of Addiction(Cont.) 2
Non-Western Views

• 4. Addiction is Life out of Balance
  Koyanisqatsii ko.yaa.nis.katski (Hopi) n. 1.
  Crazy life. 2. Life in turmoil. 3. Life
  disintegrating. 4. Life out of balance. 5. A
  state of life that calls for another way of
  living.
• Solution
• Emotional Healing of Multigenerational Trauma.
• Cultural Practices that restore a Spiritual
  Balance and Right Relationship Tobacco as
  Sacrament vs Tobacco as Addiction, Tipi
  Medicine Meetings,
• The Little Smoke as an Ally vs. Counter-cultural
  Prozac

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5 Cultural Views of Addiction(Cont.) 2
Non-Western Views

• 5. Addiction as Weapon Addiction to legal and
  illegal drugs is profitable. Addiction is Slavery
  (African-American)
• Solution Active Spiritually Based Resistance
  against the ism based cultures which promote
  addiction, co-dependency. Promote self,
  cultural,historical, spiritual, and interpersonal
  knowledge skills, and abilities which develop
  self-sufficiency, interdependency, cultural
  proficiency, economic and political independence.
  

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Addiction is Slavery

• There are a number of community organization
  efforts that have made a connection between
  addiction and slavery.
• These efforts emphasize the connection between
  economics, addiction, institutional racism, and
  social control. Generally they promote cultural
  empowerment strategies.

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XII. La Cultura Cura Cultures the Healing
Stuff.

• For certain cultural groups being born in America
  or coming to America increases addiction risk.
• Practicing cultural protective factors greatly
  reduces problems.
• Some of these factors can be adapted outside of
  their originating culture
• (Culturally Validated Best Practices)

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Physically, Then Mentally

• We have seen the physical reasons for addiction
  within the brain.
• There might be a natural balance created by the
  DNA code.
• That balance gets changed with exposure to
  chemicals or other environmental pressures.
• Weve looked at the Hardware of the Brain
• Now we look at the Software of the Mind

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Psychology Basics

• Western Psychology
• Depends on the basic theories laid down by
  Sigmund Freud and his student Carl Jung. Freuds
  talking cure and Jungs conceptions of the
  conscious and unconscious mind laid the
  groundwork for others to follow.
• Id, Ego, Super Ego,
• Conscious, Collective Unconscious, Archetypes are
  all types of memes.

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Basic Memetics
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Types of Memes

• Distinction Memes
• Category, Label
• Strategy Memes
• Situational Cause Effect Beliefs
• If ...... Then
• Example
• Driving Red Light/Right Turn Stop, then turn.
• Four way stop wait for all cars ahead, then go.
• Traffic Circle, go counter clockwise
• See a cop, slow down!
• Drive casually.

• Association Memes
• Link two or more memes
• Smell of wind on water
• Sunlight on grass, sand, rock, skin
• Flag, Military, American, Winner, The Best

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Types of Memes

• ADVERTISING MEMES
• Mom, apple pie, baseball, hot dogs, Chevrolet
• Sexy men, Diet Coke
• Sexy women, beer, computers, cars
• Joe Camel, youth rebellion, smoking

• HEALTH MEMES
• Good Hygiene
• Safe Sex
• Proper Diet
• Rest / Exercise

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Self Medication vs Intrapersonal Intelligence

• Intrapersonal Intelligence
• Understanding yourself your internal world,
  emotions, intellect, intuition, inspiration,
  depression, anger. - Howard Gardeners Theory of
  Multiple Intelligence.

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Gardeners Multiple Intelligences

• 1. LINGUISTICAL
• 2. LOGICAL MATHEMATICAL
• 3. MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE
• 4. KINESTHETIC - GROSS/FINE MOTOR ACTIVITY

• 5. INTERPERSONAL - People Skills
• 6. INTRAPERSONAL - Self Knowledge Skills
• 7. SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE - Perception-Recall-Reprod
  uction of images, memories, Directional sense
  Position in space. Puzzle solving

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Culturally Valid Best Practices

• 1st things first
• 1. Clean Sober
• 2. Emotional world.
• 3. Drugs as feelings why drugs stop
  workingTolerance.
• 4. Culturally appropriate tools in addition to
  Talking Cure. What is it you talk about?
• You cant teach what you dont know.
• You cant lead where you dont go.

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Winter Term 2004
• Week 4
• Day 2 Thursday 1/29/04
• Social Learning and Family Systems
• Readings
• Text Thombs Chapters 5 - 6, Washton Ch. 6

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Live Call in 741- 9132
• E-mail questions during class LiveClass_at_lanecc.ed
  u
• Website
• http//teach.lanecc.edu/harrism
• Online syllabus
• http//teach.lanecc.edu/harrism/hs200s04syl.htm

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Freuds Talking Cure

• Whaddaya Talk About
• Whose culture do you use?
• Whats the Goal?
• Whats the Ego Structure
• Whats the Archetype / Stereotype?
• Practical Cross Cultural Strategy for Substance
  Abuse Treatment and Recovery

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Culturally Valid Best Practices

• 1st things first
• 1. Clean Sober
• 2. Emotional world.
• 3. Drugs as feelings why drugs stop
  workingTolerance.
• 4. Culturally appropriate tools in addition to
  Talking Cure. What is it you talk about?
• You cant teach what you dont know.
• You cant lead where you dont go.
• What are the cultural strengths you can enhance?

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Winter Term 2004
• Week 5
• Day 1 Tuesday 2/3/04
• Relationships The "Family" as an addictive
  system
• Actual Content Emotional Vocabulary

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Live Call in 741- 9132
• E-mail questions during class LiveClass_at_lanecc.ed
  u
• Website
• http//teach.lanecc.edu/harrism
• Online syllabus
• http//teach.lanecc.edu/harrism/hs200s04syl.htm

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The Trouble With Normal

• The trouble with normal is that not everybody
  isnormal.
• Continuing on from where we left off
• And what I forgot to tell you
• First what I forgot.
• FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)
• FAE (Fetal Alcohol Effects)
• FADE (Fetal Alcohol and Other Drug Effects)

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Normal?

• Chemically Compromised Infants / Perinatal Class
• Whatever Mom drugs mom does, baby does at least
  twice as much of because only mom has the liver.
• Teratogens (Makes Monsters) Meth, Coke, ETOH
• Mutagens (Changes DNA Codes) Radioactivity,
  Alcohol in Dad
• Other Drugsdata aint great or always
  conclusive.
• Basic issue with the Talking Cure is it assumes
  normality.
• Normality itself depends on optimum physical
  conditionsAssume normality in our 3 stories

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Kathy, Gary, Mike

• Kathy 16 Year Old African-American, gang member,
  drug dealer (PCP), CODA, high school dropout.
  Marijuana / Alcohol
• Gary 24 year old HIV, timber / sex industry
  worker, Meth / Binge Alcohol
• Mike Ex-Motorcycle gang member, meth cook and
  dealer. Anger Management aint workin.
• What are the culturally valid best practices?

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Kathy, Gary, Mike What are the culturally
valid best practices?

• Kathy Kawaida Theory Racism, History,
  Economics. Nia, Imani, Kujichagulia.
• Gary Hows your T-Cell Count? What is your
  relationship to Death? Sobriety prolongs life.
  Two-Spirited? What is your sexual identity?
• Mike Ex-Motorcycle gang member, meth cook and
  dealer. Anger Management aint workin. Samurai
  Code of Bushido, Street Wisdom Take care of Biz

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Emotional Equations

• (A - E)n D
• Anger denied expression multiplied becomes
  depression.
• Depression is Painful
• D P

• (D)n
• Depression multiplied must be transformed or
  various addictive behaviors can develop.
• Pn x AB PAB
• Pain multiplied and not transformed will induce
  addictive behavior or painful addictive behavior.
  

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Understanding Our FeelingsBeginning Emotional
Vocabulary

• Fear Awareness of present danger or the
  expectation of future danger.
• Anxiety Future hurt
• The expectation of hurt or loss. It feels
  like something bad is going to happen.

• Joy Past / Present Pleasure
• It feels like you are filled with warmth,
  nurturance, and are energized and filled with
  life.
• Happiness Present emotional fulfillment.
• The experience of meeting our needs. It feels
  like you are lovable, capable, proud of yourself,
  and recognized by those that are important to
  you.

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Understanding Our FeelingsBeginning Emotional
Vocabulary

• Hurt Present Pain
• The experience of loss or injury. It feels like
  sadness or depletion.
• Anger Past or Present Pain expressed.
• The outward expression of hurt, recent or remote.
  It feels like wanting to hurt someone.

• Guilt Past Pain unexpressed
• Anger held in and turned against yourself. It
  feels like you are bad and deserve punishment.
• Depression Past pain chronically unexpressed.
  Pattern of reacting to all hurt by holding in
  anger. It feels like your energy is depleted and
  you feel lifeless.

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Losses Strengths

• LOSS OF LOVE
• Unattractive
• Undesirable
• Rejected / Rejecting
• Hurt / Hurtful
• Untrusting
• Unlovable
• Expendable
• Abandoned
• Alone

• I'M LOVABLE
• Attractive
• Desirable
• Accepted / Acceptable
• Trusted / Trusting
• Connected
• Loved / Loving
• Nurtured / Nurturing
• Giving

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Losses Strengths

• I'M CAPABLE
• Intelligent
• Smart
• Wise
• Strong
• Resourceful
• Powerful
• Committed
• Self-Disciplined
• Self - Directed

• LOSS OF CONTROL
• Vulnerable
• Helpless
• Weak
• Fragile
• Stupid
• Trapped
• Confined / Rage/ Destructive
• Inadequate / Incapable
• Powerless

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Losses Strengths

• LOSS OF SELF ESTEEM
• Embarrassed
• Losing Face
• Foolish
• Failure
• Unimportant
• Humiliated
• Worthless
• Shameful

• I'M VALUED, I DESERVE, I'M A PERSON OF WORTH
• Noticed, Valued, Recognized, Celebrated,
  Acknowledged, Honored, Proud, Prosperous,
  Appreciated, Successful, Worthy, Deserving,
  Important, Significant, Needed, Wanted.

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Losses Strengths

• LOSS OF LIFE
• Tired / Stressed
• Exhausted / Out of condition / Sick
• Bored/ Hopeless
• Depressed/ Traumatized
• Paralyzed
• Disoriented / Depersonalized
• Coming Apart/ In a void / In limbo / Spaced out/
  Empty

• I'M FULL OF LIFE
• Rested / Energized
• Healthy / Physically fit
• Hopeful
• Enthusiastic
• Vibrant / Radiant
• Great to Be Alive
• Sensual / Joyful
• Fun Loving
• Whole
• Creative
• Peaceful Intuitive / Reverent/ Full

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Diamond in the Well
! STUPID PCS QUICK TIME ERROR
INDEED! Go to Elmo
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Conditioning Theory

• In Which the Question is Asked and Answered Do
  People have to be Slaves to Forces they neither
  Understand or Control?
• No, They Can be Free.
• How? One might Ask.

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Winter Term 2004
• Week 5
• Day 2 Thursday 2/5/04
• Conditioning Theories

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Theoretically

• We looked before at emotional vocabulary
• We looked at a construct for describing the
  counseling process as traveling through barriers
  down through a well.
• Now we look as a behaviorist looks at psychology.
  
• Marks bias I aint a behaviorist, Im a
  transpersonalist.
• Behaviorist model is mechanistic / materialistic.
  
• There is no real room for spirituality within it.
• It does work very well if you need simplicity.
• You can easily reproduce it in a laboratory.

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Theoretically..

• Respondent Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Tension Reduction Hypothesis
• Blood Alcohol Discrimination
• Natural Mind (Synthesis of Pre-Addictive
  Societies)

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Theoretically..

• Respondent Conditioning
• Well Defined Stimulus, reflex, habit which
  precedes behavior Response.
• (Pavlov's Dogs) Bell preceding food, produces
  salivation. Obsessive Compulsive Behavior Think/
  Do.
• Stimuli are Addictive Triggers.Euphoric
  Recall (Good Trips) At least all you can
  remember is the good parts.
• And Why Are Fire Engines Red?

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Fire Engines are Red Because

• Fire Engines have 3 Ladders 4 FireFighters
• 3 x 4 12
• 12 inches in a ruler
• Queen Elizabeth was a ruler
• She had ships that Sailed the Sea
• In the Sea there are Fish
• Fish have fins
• The Finns fought the Russians
• Fire Engines are Red cause they are always
  Rushin

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Things Are Addictive Because

• We Want to Feel Good
• If One is Good, More is Better
• As a rule one more cant hurt
• If I dont know it cant hurt me
• If Im three sheets to the wind, I dont know
  where I been
• If I feel no pain, Ill probly go there again
• D.A.R.E. Drugs Are Really Expensive!
• Having Expensive things means Im Successful!
• Im Rushin to the top o the heap, just cant
  stop to thinkwhat exactly Im losing and what I
  got.
• Memory is Associative, even if the associations
  make no logical sense, they have a goalBrain
  reward.
• The Brain can be rewarded by Being Still.
• Stillness and Tranquility Set things in Order in
  the Universe - Tao Te Ching

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Theoretically..

• Operant Conditioning appears voluntary. Behavior
  is conditioned by a reinforcer which occurs after
  behavior.
• Addiction Operantly conditioned response which
  becomes stronger with quality, number, and size
  of reinforcements following each ingestion. (Or
  repetition of Process)
• Reinforcements
• 1. Euphoria
• 2. Social Variables (Peer Acceptance)
• 3. Elimination of Withdrawal Sickness
• (Or Craving if there is no Withdrawal)

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Theoretically and Realistically

• Operant Conditioning Appears voluntary.
• Behavior is also conditioned by environmental
  reinforcers called advertising, or association
  memes which influence behavior in those who are
  not conscious, and do not shield or immediately
  disinfect.
• Addiction Operantly conditioned response which
  becomes stronger with quality, number, and size
  of reinforcements following each ingestion,
  repetition of addictive process, or environments
  conducive to both casino, chat room, bar, party,
  restaurant.
• Reinforcements
• 1. Euphoria
• 2. Social Variables (Peer Acceptance)
• 3. Elimination of Withdrawal Sickness
• (Or Satisfaction of Craving if there is no
  Withdrawal)
• Craving is a persistent and repetitive thought.

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Theoretically..

• Tension Reduction Hypothesis (Jellinek)
• Society causes tension, tension is painful, pain
  demands relief.
• That Demand creates two problems
• A. Reduce tension creating conditions
• B. Find mode of relief for tension
• External Locus of Control Find Solutions Outside
• Internal Locus of Control Inquire Within, Rely
  on Internal Solutions and coping skills.

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Theoretically..

• Blood Alcohol Discrimination
• Silverstein et al (1974)
• Non-alcoholics able to discern BAL's using
  internal cues, which are accurate. Assuming of
  course they are in touch enough with their bodies
  to be aware of that.
• Sensorium sensorium n
• 1. the sensory components of the brain and
  nervous system that deal with the receiving and
  interpreting of external stimuli
• all the sensory functions in the body, considered
  as a single unit

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Theoretically..

• Alcoholics are generally unable to accurately
  gauge internal cues. (Lack of Body Awareness)
• IM NOT AS THINK AS YOU DRUNK I AM!
• (Due to tolerance and conditioning towards binge
  drinking)
• Buzzed Changes due to tolerance.
• Must use external cues i.e. body weight, of
  drinks.
• Generally Abstinence works better than moderation
  in the U.S.
• In Europe, Moderation is called Controlled
  Drinking.
• Controlled Drinking doesnt seem to have the same
  cultural supports here. (EX Swedish Alcohol
  Policy Model)

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Comparing Alcohol Policy Models

• Swedish Alcohol Policy
• Government Monopoly
• No In-Country Advertising
• No Sales on Weekends
• Legally Drunk .04 with stiff sanctions
• Drinking Age 18, 16 with an adult relative at
  dinner

• American Alcohol Policy
• Govt Regulated Private Business
• Regulations vary state to state
• Illegal to drink below 21
• Not illegal to market to below 21
• Legally drunk .08

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7 oz Microbrew
3 - 4 oz Fortified Wine
Suppose we taught people this How much
difference could it make?
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Blood Alcohol Discrimination
Is .02 Reasonable? Is staying under .08
achievable? It isIf you value sobriety over
intoxication.
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How do you value Sobriety over Intoxication?

• How would you condition someone for sobriety?
• The social assumption is that you are supposed to
  be soberbut
• As a number of Social Recons have noted
• The pressure is everywhere to use.
• How would you push back?

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Natural Mind

• Natural Mind The state of being in which the
  inherent potential in each human being can
  develop, grow, be sustained, and expanded by
  conscious choice.

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Natural Mind
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Natural Mind

• These are separated only to talk about them. In a
  healthy and aware person they work together in
  balance.
• Spirit is the real experience of connection to
  something greater than yourself. Referred to in
  at least two ways
• 1. Silent Compassionate Witness
• 2. Still Small Voice Within
• (Your own Personal Intuition It is always True
  and Correct, Ya Know Ya shoulda listened!)

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Winter Term 2004
• Week 6
• Day 1 Tuesday 2/10/04
• Sexual Addictions / Internet Addiction Readings

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Natural Mind

• These are separated only to talk about them. In a
  healthy and aware person they work together in
  balance.
• Spirit is the real experience of connection to
  something greater than yourself. Referred to in
  at least two ways
• 1. Silent Compassionate Witness
• 2. Still Small Voice Within
• (Your own Personal Intuition It is always True
  and Correct, Ya Know Ya shoulda listened!)

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Natural Mind

• Emotions include your feelings, your dreams
• Your Body is where you live while conscious.
  (Where are you when you are not conscious?)
• Mind includes your thoughts, theories,
  memories, drives, ego-programming (I am this
  body, these feelings, these thoughts, this
  history and no more) and visions of the future.

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Natural Mind

• The Problem is Choice
• Do you accept that you have made or will make
  certain choices?
• One of those choices is Who You Are?
• Are the circumstances of your life chosen by you
  or inflicted upon you?
• Poor in Wallet is not the same as Poor in Spirit?

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Natural Mind

• These are separated only to talk about them. In a
  healthy and aware person they work together in
  balance.
• Spirit connects your Mind, Emotions, Body, beyond
  the limits imposed by the Ego.
• Originally you werent addicted and were
  connected and self-reliant.
• When did you Stop?
• Start by Balancing

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Natural Mind

• A Balance is Achieved where the Inner World
  remains unchanged regardless of the outer world.
• The outer world can be influenced by this
• Soul Force (As King referred to it.)

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Natural Mind

• In the beginning of your life you begin to learn
  to separate yourself from your environment and
  form an identity.
• A baby learns about object permanence, expresses
  emotions, acquires language and learning, learns
  to eat, walk, and use its body.

A point is an experience, an emotion, a memory,
points added together make a line.
A line is series of points, some of which are
related, some of which may be "off the wall", or
lead to other lines.
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Dimensions of Natural Mind

• People have experiences along all four lines.

These experiences can be deepened and a greater
range of them can be explored.
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Dimensions of Natural Mind

• The next dimension beyond this allows one to
  "see", perceive, or feel, and therefore
  manipulate, the forces which shape our feelings,
  body image and wellness, our mental health, and
  our spiritual being.
• Beyond what can be pictured here in
  two-dimensional space are yet other sources of
  learning and influence.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Simplex

• Each higher dimension contains all the lower ones
  within it. If you use this as a metaphor for
  human development

• A point of view which can only see points close
  to it. Or a line of thought which can only see
  adjacent lines and points.

A line can see other lines and points, but not
squares and complex structures.
The Point being In Addiction ones attention is
focused on a single point or line to the
exclusion of others.
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Dimensions of Natural Mind

• The Counselor sees the original sober person at
  the heart of the suffering addict.
• Healing is the process of bringing that being to
  the surface.

• Treatment or Healing (Which are not the same
  thing) is the process of growth and in this
  dimensional metaphor deepening.
• Treatment may start the process of healing.
• Healing can happen outside of treatment, where
  treatment fails to go.

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Dimensions of Natural MindComplex

• The Holistic Counselor is trained to be at least
  Complex.
• (Some are squares, some are cubes)
• A square can see squares, lines, and points.
• A cube can see other cubes, squares, lines, and
  points.

• Especially within the framework of the three
  views of addiction.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• A Multiplex Counselor might be like a hypercube,
• A hypercube can see other hypercubes, cubes,
  squares, lines, and points.
• In other words they might be able to perceive and
  manipulate the hidden forces that shape cubes.

• Multiplex also involves hidden culturally bound
  or coded perceptual dimensions of space / time
  including various time constructs,
  electromagnetic, atomic, sub-atomic, quantum,
  spiritual, mental, emotional, and other
  n-dimensional forces
• Chi or Ki might be one such.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• An example The phenomenon called
  electromagnetism is made up of two forces that
  always accompany each other, electricity and
  magnetism. Everything electric has a magnetic
  field, and moving magnets can generate
  electricity. If we take the point of view of a
  cube, electromagnetism is but one face or square
  of that cube.

• That cube might not perceive the full dimensions
  (hypercube and beyond) that electromagnetism
  encompasses.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• Nonetheless some electromagnetic aspects of
  consciousness can be consciously manipulated. As
  an example human being can learn to change their
  physical /mental/ emotional states using
  biofeedback. Brainwave training using EEG
  (Electro Encephalo Gram) Brainwave analyzers can
  be a useful tool.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• Brainwaves
• Delta 0 - 2 Hz Coma to deep dreamless sleep.
• Theta 3 - 6 Hz Dream sleep, Emotions
• Alpha 7 - 12 Hz Brain Relaxed but alert, free
  associativeseeking data in holographic space.
• Beta 13 - 27 Hz Brain is actively working,
  linear logical computational mode.
• Gamma 27 Plus Psychotic State
• Not Surprisingly certain drugs enhance or
  reinforce certain brainwave states.
• What if you could do for yourself what the drugs
  do for you? Drugs are not Skill.

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Conditioning Natural Mind

• Spirit
• Mind
• Emotions
• Body

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Conditioning for Addiction

• Addiction is continually seeking outer answers
  for inner questions.
• Its as if you are taught all your life by people
  you trust (or you are supposed to trust) that
• 2 2 5
• You will note that 5 is larger than the actual
  answer.
• You will try to believe that 5 is the answer even
  though intuitively you know it cant be.

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Theoretically..

• Tension Reduction Hypothesis (Jellinek)
• Society causes tension, tension is painful, pain
  demands relief.
• That Demand creates two problems
• A. Reduce tension creating conditions
• B. Find mode of relief for tension
• External Locus of Control Find Solutions Outside
• Internal Locus of Control Inquire Within
• THEORETICALLY.NOW LETS GET REAL
• Are these researchers really unaware that people
  have been abused by society for generations and
  they think that abuse only causes tension?

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Realistically

• Major Societal Institutions Condone and Support
  Abuse.
• Child Abuse Physical and Sexual
• Abuse in School
• Abuse by Law Enforcement, Juvenile Justice,
• Corrections
• Boot Camp / Military Basic Training
• Domestic Violence Nicole Stat (Every 9 days)
• Its Normal or there is nothing we can do about
  it. (APA stance against classifying Racism as a
  mental illness)

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Winter Term 2004
• Week 6
• Day 1 Tuesday 2/10/04
• Sexual Addictions / Internet Addiction Readings

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Natural Mind

• These are separated only to talk about them. In a
  healthy and aware person they work together in
  balance.
• Spirit is the real experience of connection to
  something greater than yourself. Referred to in
  at least two ways
• 1. Silent Compassionate Witness
• 2. Still Small Voice Within
• (Your own Personal Intuition It is always True
  and Correct, Ya Know Ya shoulda listened!)

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Natural Mind

• Emotions include your feelings, your dreams
• Your Body is where you live while conscious.
  (Where are you when you are not conscious?)
• Mind includes your thoughts, theories,
  memories, drives, ego-programming (I am this
  body, these feelings, these thoughts, this
  history and no more) and visions of the future.

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Natural Mind

• The Problem is Choice
• Do you accept that you have made or will make
  certain choices?
• One of those choices is Who You Are?
• Are the circumstances of your life chosen by you
  or inflicted upon you?
• Poor in Wallet is not the same as Poor in Spirit?

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Natural Mind

• These are separated only to talk about them. In a
  healthy and aware person they work together in
  balance.
• Spirit connects your Mind, Emotions, Body, beyond
  the limits imposed by the Ego.
• Originally you werent addicted and were
  connected and self-reliant.
• When did you Stop?
• Start by Balancing

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Natural Mind

• A Balance is Achieved where the Inner World
  remains unchanged regardless of the outer world.
• The outer world can be influenced by this
• Soul Force (As King referred to it.)

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Natural Mind

• In the beginning of your life you begin to learn
  to separate yourself from your environment and
  form an identity.
• A baby learns about object permanence, expresses
  emotions, acquires language and learning, learns
  to eat, walk, and use its body.

A point is an experience, an emotion, a memory,
points added together make a line.
A line is series of points, some of which are
related, some of which may be "off the wall", or
lead to other lines.
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Dimensions of Natural Mind

• People have experiences along all four lines.

These experiences can be deepened and a greater
range of them can be explored.
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Dimensions of Natural Mind

• The next dimension beyond this allows one to
  "see", perceive, or feel, and therefore
  manipulate, the forces which shape our feelings,
  body image and wellness, our mental health, and
  our spiritual being.
• Beyond what can be pictured here in
  two-dimensional space are yet other sources of
  learning and influence.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Simplex

• Each higher dimension contains all the lower ones
  within it. If you use this as a metaphor for
  human development

• A point of view which can only see points close
  to it. Or a line of thought which can only see
  adjacent lines and points.

A line can see other lines and points, but not
squares and complex structures.
The Point being In Addiction ones attention is
focused on a single point or line to the
exclusion of others.
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Dimensions of Natural Mind

• The Counselor sees the original sober person at
  the heart of the suffering addict.
• Healing is the process of bringing that being to
  the surface.

• Treatment or Healing (Which are not the same
  thing) is the process of growth and in this
  dimensional metaphor deepening.
• Treatment may start the process of healing.
• Healing can happen outside of treatment, where
  treatment fails to go.

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Dimensions of Natural MindComplex

• The Holistic Counselor is trained to be at least
  Complex.
• (Some are squares, some are cubes)
• A square can see squares, lines, and points.
• A cube can see other cubes, squares, lines, and
  points.

• Especially within the framework of the three
  views of addiction.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• A Multiplex Counselor might be like a hypercube,
• A hypercube can see other hypercubes, cubes,
  squares, lines, and points.
• In other words they might be able to perceive and
  manipulate the hidden forces that shape cubes.

• Multiplex also involves hidden culturally bound
  or coded perceptual dimensions of space / time
  including various time constructs,
  electromagnetic, atomic, sub-atomic, quantum,
  spiritual, mental, emotional, and other
  n-dimensional forces
• Chi or Ki might be one such.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• An example The phenomenon called
  electromagnetism is made up of two forces that
  always accompany each other, electricity and
  magnetism. Everything electric has a magnetic
  field, and moving magnets can generate
  electricity. If we take the point of view of a
  cube, electromagnetism is but one face or square
  of that cube.

• That cube might not perceive the full dimensions
  (hypercube and beyond) that electromagnetism
  encompasses.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• Nonetheless some electromagnetic aspects of
  consciousness can be consciously manipulated. As
  an example human being can learn to change their
  physical /mental/ emotional states using
  biofeedback. Brainwave training using EEG
  (Electro Encephalo Gram) Brainwave analyzers can
  be a useful tool.

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Dimensions of Natural Mind Multiplex

• Brainwaves
• Delta 0 - 2 Hz Coma to deep dreamless sleep.
• Theta 3 - 6 Hz Dream sleep, Emotions
• Alpha 7 - 12 Hz Brain Relaxed but alert, free
  associativeseeking data in holographic space.
• Beta 13 - 27 Hz Brain is actively working,
  linear logical computational mode.
• Gamma 27 Plus Psychotic State
• Not Surprisingly certain drugs enhance or
  reinforce certain brainwave states.
• What if you could do for yourself what the drugs
  do for you? Drugs are not Skill.

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Conditioning Natural Mind

• Spirit
• Mind
• Emotions
• Body

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Conditioning for Addiction

• Addiction is continually seeking outer answers
  for inner questions.
• Its as if you are taught all your life by people
  you trust (or you are supposed to trust) that
• 2 2 5
• You will note that 5 is larger than the actual
  answer.
• You will try to believe that 5 is the answer even
  though intuitively you know it cant be.

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Theoretically..

• Tension Reduction Hypothesis (Jellinek)
• Society causes tension, tension is painful, pain
  demands relief.
• That Demand creates two problems
• A. Reduce tension creating conditions
• B. Find mode of relief for tension
• External Locus of Control Find Solutions Outside
• Internal Locus of Control Inquire Within
• THEORETICALLY.NOW LETS GET REAL
• Are these researchers really unaware that people
  have been abused by society for generations and
  they think that abuse only causes tension?

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Realistically

• Major Societal Institutions Condone and Support
  Abuse.
• Child Abuse Physical and Sexual
• Abuse in School
• Abuse by Law Enforcement, Juvenile Justice,
• Corrections
• Boot Camp / Military Basic Training
• Domestic Violence Nicole Stat (Every 9 days)
• Its Normal or there is nothing we can do about
  it. (APA stance against classifying Racism as a
  mental illness)

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Human Services 200 Understanding
AddictiveBehavior

• Winter Term 2004
• Week 6
• Day 2 Thursday 2/12/04
• Sexual Addictions / Internet Addiction Readings

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Multigenerational Trauma

• What happens when you destroy a peoples culture
• What were the Germans like before Roman Conquest?
• What were the Irish and Scots like before Roman
  Conquest, then English conquest?
• What did English royalty do to each other to take
  the throne? (Put the screws to them, the third
  degree, the rack, iron maiden)

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Multigenerational Trauma

• What happens when you destroy a peoples culture
• Maria Braveheart
• Indian people endured systematic genocide By the
  use of military force, biological warfare,
  chemical warfare, child abduction, child abuse,
  Indian Education to kill the Indian in the
  Indian and make him white - U.S. Congressman.
• What happens to the children of those who grew up
  in boarding schools?
• What happens to the children of those who
  survived Nazi Concentration camps and the
  American Concentration Camps?

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Multigenerational TraumaAutogenocide

• African slaves being mistreated in America
  duplicate their treatment in successive
  generations
• Antwone Fisher My foster mother called all
  three of us boys Nigger, and we could tell which
  one of us she meant by the way she said it.
• He reacted to his abuse using rage as his
  substance of abuse.
• Others use substances to self-medicate.

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Multigenerational Trauma Autogenocide

• Abuse is about power control.
• People abused as children feel anger but cant
  direct it at their abuser. So they turn that
  anger inward.
• A people abused cannot direct their anger against
  a society of abusers, so they often turn that
  anger in on themselves in acts that are as
  self-destructive.

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Conditioning Natural Mind

• Spirit
• Mind
• Emotions
• Body

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Multigenerational Autogenocide

• Multigenerational trauma is when either the
  memory of the trauma is passed on, or the
  traumatizing practices are passed on to
  succeeding generations.
• Autogenocide is when people engage in health
  practices which duplicate the end effect of
  traumatic violence.
• N.A. Diabetes, Alcoholism, FAS, Violence
• A.A. Smoking, Alcoholism, Diabetes, Violence,
  Domestic Violence.
• Alcohol and tobacco kill more black people every
  year than the Klan did in its entire history -
  John Jacobs

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PTSD
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Natural Mind Conditioning to Heal Trauma

• PTSD or Multigenerational Trauma is experienced
  in pieces flashbacks, dreams, drug experiences.
• Without skill development people attempt to
  suppress the memory events by using, or by
  prescribing suppressive medicationsProzac,
  Trazidoneor self-medicate using addictive
  substances or processes
• Drugs are Not Skill
• Addictions are substitutes for coping skills

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Conditioning Natural Mind

• Emotions Pay attention to what has heart and
  meaningeven if you dont know what the meaning
  is.
• Emotional Vocabulary What is this feeling?
• Emotional How Tos What do I do with, or about
  this feeling?
• When I feel like I lose control, what are my
  inner and outer resources?
• Is there a creative outlet? (Draw, Write, Sound,
  Sculpt)
• Im not alone!!!!????? Other people have gone
  through this?

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Conditioning Natural Mind

• Mind You have developed or you can develop the
  solution. (You might discover you have the
  solution already)
• Psychology Start with a usable framework.
  (Either one that is culturally appropriate, or
  one that you find useful)
• Mindfulness Cultivation of the Witness / Inner
  Teacher
• Thoughts Dont Invite them in for tea, dont
  rush them out the door.
• Encourage, reading, Study, reflection,
  creativity.

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Conditioning Natural Mind

• Body
• Basic Nutrition
• Eat foods that have water in them
• Eat foods that replace what youve lost from
  using.
• Eat less, move more if you are overweight.
• Stressed? Stretch, Rest, or exercise and rest.
• Engage in a mind / body discipline
• Mind follows the breath Control the breath,
  Control the mind.

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Prevention is the Practice of That Which Makes Us
Strong - African Precept

• The first thing you need in the confrontation of
  addiction is to bring into balance is your mind.
• The way we do that first is through the Breath
• In Aramaic (The language that Isho-Jesus spoke)
  the word for Holy Spirit means Breath.
• In Aramaic ahebw labwheldbhaybhaykhun (Love your
  Enemies) is actually instructions on how to do
  it.
• Isho says in the instructions Bring yourself
  back into rhythm within that would mean the
  rhythm of the breathslowcoolingpowerful

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M.A.P. Mind / Mood. Altering. Practice.

• 12 Resonance Breath (5 count In, 10 Count Out)
  You give more than you take.
• Breathe from your diaphram
• Inbreath count 12345
• Outbreath count 12345678910
• To establish a rhythm silently think (one
  thousand, chimpanzee, mississippi, Alaha - Unity)
  between each count.
• Take 10 Breaths minimum
• When you are angry dont take a deep breath take
  ten.
• You can do this eyes open or closed especially
  depending on your circumstances, (dont close
  your eyes in front of the enemy) eventually it
  becomes reflex.
• Assuming a 15 second cycle for each breath this
  is about 2.5 minutes. (Cheaper than beer, a
  joint, or Prozac)

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M.A.P. Mind / Mood. Altering. Practice.

• Mind Follows the Breath
• Various religions, spiritual disciplines,
  creative and martial arts note that there is a
  relationship between your mood and your
  breathing.
• Most often we have been domesticated to rely on
  external sources for our mood
• Food affects mood, we acknowledge this through
  the term Comfort Food
• Food, Alcohol, and Television, Pharmaceutical
  Drugs, Street Drugs, Church, Dancing, Music, are
  all used to affect mood and they all have an
  affect on how you breathe.
• In addiction you put the control outside of you.
• Natural Mind develops the conscious internal
  controls.

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M.A.P. Mind / Mood. Altering. Practice.

• Mind Follows the Breath
• Natural Mind develops the conscious internal
  controls.
• I am not suggesting you simply throw away your
  medications and simply breathe.
• I am saying you have to breathe anyway, the
  breath is free (today anyway) and you might well
  try to breathe consciously, because conscious
  attention to the breath is an effective practice
  in a number of areas.
• Mind or Mood Altering Chemicals or
• Mind or Mood Altering Practices.

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Notice Your Breath

• No not how it smells
• How deep it goes into your lungs through your
  nose
• Notice how deep or shallow your breathing is
  while you are doing various activities.
• Shallower the breath the faster the brainwave
• Deeper and slower the breath the slower the
  brainwave.

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Focus Your Locus

• Inner Locus of Control is easily focused with
  breath control
• When you are bored, notice how you are breathing,
  what bodily sensations you feel and where you
  feel them, and notice that boredom is also a
  body state.
• When you are tired notice the same thing.
• See how those states change with a 12 Resonance
  Breath

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We take into ourselves, the strength of that
which we have overcome.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson