Lesson 6: Managing Cravings And Urges - Slide  30

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Eluding The Trap Of Cravings And Urges

  • Self treatment with the 4 steps leads to changes in the brain which result in lowered fear and a lessening of the intensity of cravings and urges
  • This leads to easier Revaluation of the thoughts, cravings and urges because it makes it easier to see them for what they are “worthless garbage that is not worth paying attention to”
Notes:

Pg.100-101, Schwartz, Jeffrey, M., 1996, “Brain Lock, Free Yourself From Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior, A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method To Change Your Brain Chemistry,” Regan Books/Harper Collins Publishers, New York.

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