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Stimulation As Motivation
- Garbage Rules will prod you to face the self-defeating thinking that’s keeping you addicted.
- Ego will help you to understand and overcome the underlying problem of your addiction.
Stimulation As Motivation. This page discusses motivation, addiction, and simulation as an interactive system. Manage your stimulation.
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Stimulation As Motivation
SEEK STIMULATION
- We seek stimulation because stimulation is our reward.
- We move through life from stimulation to stimulation.
- Stimulation makes us feel alive.
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DEGREES OF STIMULATION
- Disintegration is the strongest form of stimulation.
- We can enjoy the disintegration of people, places, and things using the pride of ego that it is not ourselves that is being disintegrated.
- Material things naturally tend toward disintegration or death including ego, self-esteem, and human nature.
- Stimulation is not the problem or bad; how you do it and get it is either good or bad.
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REPLACE STIMULATION WITH STIMULATION
- We use one stimulation to replace another stimulation.
- Usually, we replace a negative stimulation with a positive stimulation.
- Hunger is a negative stimulation that is replaced by the stimulation of eating good food.
- Thirst is a negative stimulation that is overcome by the stimulation of drinking water.
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OVERWHELM OR OVERCOME ONE STIMULATION WITH ANOTHER
- While this is similar to replacing one stimulation with another, it is also quite different.
- We use one stimulation as motivation to overpower another.
- To overcome the stimulation of anxiety or depression, some people overeat or overshop.
- To overwhelm the stimulation of anxiety or depression, some people over-drink alcohol, use drugs, or over sex.
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ESCAPE OR AVOID ONE STIMULATION WITH ANOTHER
- While this is similar to overwhelming one stimulation with another, it is also quite different.
- We use one stimulation to erase all stimulation.
- Consider self-hate a disintegrating stimulation that a person might want to escape or avoid.
- Using the tools of people with an addiction, you can drink or drug yourself into oblivion so that you do not think about or feel the pain of self-hate. This is not overwhelming one stimulation with another but annihilating one stimulation with another.
- People with an addiction often report blanking out, losing time, forgetting where they were and what they did, not knowing how they wound up in a different city, etc., because they went blank or numb, fell asleep, or passed out.
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FOUR CHOICES FOR STIMULATIONS
- Increase them by repeating them.
- Replace them with other ones.
- Overwhelm one set with another set.
- Escape or avoid one set with another set.
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HOMEOSTASIS
- Simulation causes imbalance.
- Life seeks balance or homeostasis.
- Pain follows pleasure, and pleasure follows pain in an endless cycle.
- Extremes are often used to rebalance from another extreme.
- One stimulation can oppose another until both are in balance.
- Stimulations become harder to find because the body adjusts to them for a new balance.
- For more on homeostasis and its ruling powers, see Stress for Success, 2nd Edition.
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STIMULATION & IDENTITY
- When you are your true self, then stimulation comes and goes, and there is no fighting or trying to claim stimulation.
- When you are identified with a stimulation, conflict and problems ensue, and soon, you fight one stimulation with another.
- While the body naturally identifies with the stimulations it is aware of, the self does not have to.
- The vessel nature of self is neutral such that homeostasis is a constant.
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STIMULATION RELATED TERMS
anger, anxiety, arguments, conflict, crime, cynicism, dark, deception, defibrillator, demands, drama, dramatization, entertainment, exaggeration, excite, exciting, fights, fire and brimstone, GAADSAP, games, gossip, guilt, horror, lying, mystery, news, novelty, originality, panic, politics, rebellion, resistance, scandals, shame, shock, shock news, shock theater, shock treatment, shock value, shocking sex, shoulds, suspense, threats, war, zap
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- 3Ps of Motivation
- 6-Step Cycle of Motivation
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- Choose Higher when Tempted by Lower
- Coping Skills: Free Help
- Do the Good More & Do the Bad Less
- Emotionalize New Behaviors & Beliefs
- How to Quit in 5 Steps
- Motivating Questions
- Quotations & Slogans from AA
- Recovery Issues: Free Help
- Reduce Problems & Stress
- Relapse Prevention: 3 Steps
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