ANT Therapy

Becoming the watcher of your thoughts, particularly with automatic negative thoughts that are really unconsciousness of thought processes and emotions, your reactions, your desires, and aversions. Knowing that you can start recognizing the thought before they becoming etwining with emotions is the first step.
Automatic negative thoughts are in the forms of:

1. Always Thinking- overgeneralizing a situations with words like always, never, everyone, everytime
2. Focusing on the negative- ignoring everything that can be construed as positive
3. Fortune-telling
4. Mind Reading- believing you know what the person thinks, even though they haven't told you
5. Thinking with your Feelings- (feelings are facts)
6. Guilt beatings- should, ought, must, or have to
7. Labeling- attaching a negatiuve label to yourself or others
8. Personalization- taking innocous events personally
9. Blame- blaming others for the problems in your life

When you recognize these thoughts coming in ask yourself-  if they are true, how do you react when you believe that thought and who would you be without that thought. These questions can wake people up to the fact that if they are the watcher of the thoughts, then who does the thinking? Where do these automatic negative thoughts come from? Become the watcher and find out!

Eradicate those ANTs and start healing your brain to become healthier and happier every day!

'Use Your Brain to Change Your Age'

Becoming connected with Dr. Amen the author of "Use Your Brain to Change Your Age" has enhanced my awareness to help indivduals with undiagnosed brain injuries which are the major causes of:

• homelessness
• psychiatric illnesses
• depression and anxiety attacks
• alcoholism and drug abuse
• suicide

Brain injuries can be healed and brain chemistry can be changed. Dr. Amen has proven that brain rehabilitation is possible through his work with retired NFL players and returning vets. I believe the knowledge gained through Dr. Amen work can help heal people with depression, anxiety, addiction, and grief. 


A few suggesstions from Dr. Amen may help individuals who want to to look, feel and think younger every day by healing their brain:

1. Immediately stop doing anything that hurts your brain*
2. Exercise **
3. Sleep well
4. Eat optimtally nutrious foods
5. Brain Gym exercises***
6. ANT therapy****

*Anything toxic will hurt your brain so think about the amount of alcohol you consume and whether it reaches an intoxication level. 
**One of the biggest surprises in the finding of research in Dr. Amen's book is that being overweight is connected to significant decreases in brain size in the learning and memory portions of the brain. 
*** These can be found on the internet
**** Automatic negative thoughts (details about combating these will be in the next post)

Happy brains everyone!