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    This document summarizes a presentation on breaking self-sabotage cycles. It discusses how self-sabotage behaviors are actually coping mechanisms for underlying "core hurts," which are emotional vulnerabilities and lies people come to believe about themselves. These core hurts are triggered by emotional reactivity in the primitive "reptilian" part of the brain. While self-sabotage tactics provide temporary relief, they ultimately increase long-term suffering. The presentation introduces a technique called "value vaccination" which uses imagery and visualization to recondition neural pathways, build immunity to core hurts, and automatically access one's "core values" even during times of stress or emotional reactivity. With regular practice, value vaccination can help override impulses leading

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    This document summarizes a presentation on breaking self-sabotage cycles. It discusses how self-sabotage behaviors are actually coping mechanisms for underlying "core hurts," which are emotional vulnerabilities and lies people come to believe about themselves. These core hurts are triggered by emotional reactivity in the primitive "reptilian" part of the brain. While self-sabotage tactics provide temporary relief, they ultimately increase long-term suffering. The presentation introduces a technique called "value vaccination" which uses imagery and visualization to recondition neural pathways, build immunity to core hurts, and automatically access one's "core values" even during times of stress or emotional reactivity. With regular practice, value vaccination can help override impulses leading

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    This document summarizes a presentation on breaking self-sabotage cycles. It discusses how self-sabotage behaviors are actually coping mechanisms for underlying "core hurts," which are emotional vulnerabilities and lies people come to believe about themselves. These core hurts are triggered by emotional reactivity in the primitive "reptilian" part of the brain. While self-sabotage tactics provide temporary relief, they ultimately increase long-term suffering. The presentation introduces a technique called "value vaccination" which uses imagery and visualization to recondition neural pathways, build immunity to core hurts, and automatically access one's "core values" even during times of stress or emotional reactivity. With regular practice, value vaccination can help override impulses leading

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    What is the most powerful word in your life?

    There is one word that has the power to bring


    deep meaning, satisfaction, and fulfillment into
    your life, and if you meditate on it for just a few
    minutes each day, it can change the way you
    work and improve your relationship with
    others.
    However, no one can tell you what that word is.
    You must discover it for yourself
    Andrew Newberg M.D. and Mark Robert
    Waldman, Neuroscientists and authors of
    Words Can Change Your Brain

    Your Brain on Value:

    How to Break the


    Self-Sabotage Cycle

    Reveal: What you think you know about selfsabotage is inaccurate


    Reveal: Why your current challenges are simply
    symptoms (long-standing coping methods) that
    provide temporary relief from states of
    powerlessness but, in the long run, make them
    worse
    Reveal: Why everything you have tried has not
    worked
    Introduce a tool that will make all of the difference
    2

    What to Expect
    Aim to complete in well under an hour
    Replay (including slides) available at this same link for 1 week
    We encourage you to download the slides in PDF form
    Here to introduce you to something that has to power to significantly
    impact your life
    Everything shared today backed by years of evidence-based research
    But even more credible than research data is your own direct,
    personal experience - so this session will be heavily interactive

    Pick one of the following words

    Focusing on Peace or Love


    Genomic counter-stress changes
    induced by the relaxation response.
    Dusek JA, Otu HH, Wohlhueter AL,
    Bhasin M, Zerbini LF, Joseph MG,
    Benson H, Libermann TA. PLoS One.
    2008 Jul 2;3(7):e2576.
    Creswell, J. D., Welch, W. T., Taylor, S. E.,
    Sherman, D. K., Gruenewald, T. L., &
    Mann, T. (2005). Affirmation of personal
    values buffers neuroendocrine and
    psychological stress responses.
    Psychological Science, 16(11), 846-851

    The Human Brain

    Dr. Daniel Siegel: Brain Model

    Neural-Hijacking
    Extremely potent reptilian brain state
    Once alarm is triggered, adrenal glands flood the body
    with stress hormones
    Once the alarm is sounded, full access to the thinking
    mind is hijacked
    Cant interrupt with thinking (5000 x faster)
    Feels real, current and rational - but it is not.
    The disconnection between these aspects of the brain
    also leads to a sense of being disconnected from Self

    Core Hurts are


    the emotional components of
    presumed deficiencies in the
    self.

    I am powerless
    I am inadequate
    I am unlovable
    I am unworthy

    Core Hurt

    Emotional Reactivity

    Self-Sabotage

    Any hint of guilt, shame, anxiety, anger, resentment,


    sadness, emptiness can trigger a Core Hurt
    Because experiencing the reactivation of Core Hurt
    is so painful and draining, your brain tries to
    develop short-term strategies to avoid experiencing
    these hidden feelings
    Our attempts to protect ourselves from
    experiencing Core Hurts lie at the root of our most
    common symptoms and defenses such as: anxiety,
    resentment, anger, depression, obsessions,
    addictions, manipulation, and emotional eating
    10

    Start

    Self-Sabotage
    Cycle
    While these tactics may temporarily mask
    distress, they inevitably increase pain in
    the long run.

    Your Personal Experiences


    Wed love for you to to ponder (and/or post) responses to the following questions:

    Are you aware of promises that you make that you have a hard time keeping?
    Does the explanation of neural-hijacking make something more clear to you?
    Have you watched other people become hijacked and been shocked by how they
    seem to completely lose touch with their long-term best interests?

    We can break the cycle


    Anger
    Addictions
    Emotional Reactivity
    Obsessions/Compulsions

    Anxiety
    Depression
    Emotional Eating
    Chronic Resentment

    Once we change the wiring, automatic circuits ceases to direct us

    What is the most powerful word in your life?


    Youll have to discover for yourself what the
    most powerful word in your life is, but it will be
    a word that encapsulates the most important
    principle in your life. And when it informs the
    other words you say, it will both protect you
    from being knocked off balance in verbal
    conflicts and help you to stay focused on
    achieving your personal and professional
    goals.
    Andrew Newberg M.D. and Mark Robert
    Waldman, Neuroscientists and authors of
    Words Can Change Your Brain

    Public Library
    of Science,
    2013
    Creswell, J. D., Dutcher, J. M., Klein, W.
    M., Harris, P. R., & Levine, J. M. (2013).
    Self-affirmation improves problemsolving under stress. PloS one, 8(5),
    e62593
    Understanding that self-affirmation - the
    process of identifying and focusing on
    ones most important values boosts
    stressed individuals problem-solving
    abilities

    Journal: Health
    Psychology,
    2009
    Psychological vulnerability and stress:
    the effects of self-affirmation on
    sympathetic nervous system responses
    to naturalistic stressors. Sherman, D. K.,
    Bunyan, D. P., Creswell, J. D., & Jaremka,
    L. M. (2009).

    Journal:
    Emotion
    Jan. 2015
    Self-Affirmation Breaks the Link
    Between the Behavioral Inhibition
    System and the Threat-Potentiated
    Startle Response Crowell A, Page-Gould
    E, & Schmeichel B.J. (2015) SelfAffirmation Breaks the Link Between the
    Behavioral Inhibition System and the
    Threat-Potentiated Startle Response.
    Emotion.
    17

    Glossary
    Core Value is the truth about the self
    Core Hurts are the lies we come to believe about ourselves
    Toddler-brain wiring: Brain circuit that was wired in toddlerhood and that
    is hyper-reactive to the experience of being devalued
    Self-Sabotage/False Power: Thinking or acting in an effort to relieve
    internal distress. Only gain temporary relief while exacerbating long-term
    pain.
    Adult-Brain/Genuine Power: Ability to act in long-term best interests in
    any situation

    Core Hurt / Core Value


    Core Value is the deepest experience of the self.
    When in touch with Core Value you would not act in a
    way that would violate your deeper values.
    It is only when we are disconnected from Core Value
    that we suffer Core Hurts that lead to self-sabotage.
    Acts of Value are self-enhancing as they motivate us to
    be the "best version of ourselves. Core Hurts are selfdefeating as they motivate behavior that is harmful to
    the self and others.
    Habits that build Core Value override habits that are
    linked to Core19Hurts.

    The Team

    Drew Gerber
    CEO, Wasabi Publicity

    Elyse Hope Killoran

    Dr. Steven Stosny


    Transformational Coach

    Dr. Gregory Moore


    Licensed Clinical Psychologist

    Best-Selling Author and Founder


    of Bio-Emotional Reconditioning

    Value Vaccination
    Skill the brain can use automatically in a fraction of a
    second to reach core value when aroused with anger,
    resentment, anxiety, obsessions, etc.
    Lowers baseline: (anger, resentment, anxiety,) in the
    stream of unconscious everyday emotion
    Baseline lower = waves of negative emotion less
    intense
    Not suppress, tolerate, ignore, hold it in
    Changes automatically like a thermostat
    From: devaluing to valuing, core hurts to core value

    Statistical Tracking
    *

    After 1 year, statistical tracking of court-ordered


    graduates of Dr. Stosnys Core Value Workshop
    demonstrates:

    86% violence-free (push, grab) after 1 year,


    based on victim report
    71% verbal aggression-free after 1 year, based
    on victim report
    49% reduction in anger-hostility
    36% increase in compassion
    35% improvement in self-esteem
    33% clinical anxiety reduced to normal level

    Value Vaccination
    Working in the same way as a chemical vaccination,
    the Value Vaccination process exposes you to a very,
    very small dose of the predominant triggers that set
    self-defeating behaviors in motion before infusing
    you with a powerful dose of your own personalized
    Value antidote.
    With repetition over time, the technology:
    reinforces a stable sense of Core Value
    builds long-term immunity to the negative effects
    of Core Hurts (which lead to self-sabotaging
    behavior)
    overrides the impulses that lead to: chronic anger
    and resentment, anxiety, addictions, obsessions,
    compulsions, depression, and emotional eating.

    Value Vaccination
    E

    V: Vividly visualize to activate physiological


    arousal

    A: Allow to feel the Core Hurt


    L : Liberate by conditioning cues from one
    state with cues from the other, so that the
    occurrence of state-A (e.g., anger) activates
    state-B (self-compassion) automatically
    U: Unify the two seemingly disparate parts of
    you
    E: Express by translating emotion into action
    (Acts of Value)

    V
    A

    Using Technology to Build Neural Circuits


    Because Core Hurts were acquired during early childhood,
    the ideal way to stimulate and recondition them is via
    imagery that accesses the pre-verbal toddler brain directly.
    This is why the Value Vaccination processes rely heavily on
    imagery and experiential awareness.
    With regular Value infusions you can anticipate:
    Immediate state changes and long-term improvement in
    well being
    A stronger and more flexible emotional system (greater
    resilience and resourcefulness)
    Higher threshold for reactive arousal (over time, no one
    can push your buttons for no one will make you feel
    vulnerable to a Core Hurt)

    To Access the Web Site as a Beta-Tester, please complete the survey at:
    https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TYRK9QL

    Value Vaccination
    Critical 6 Weeks of Basic Training to make the reconditioning automatic under stress
    Immunity: Each repetition makes you more
    immune to the core hurts that drives selfsabotaging behavior
    Strengthening exercise: Like pushups, each
    repetition makes you stronger.
    Skill to practice: Like shooting foul shots, each
    repetition makes you more skilled.

    Valuable and Lovable


    We have valuable and lovable backwards
    Our brains are so socially wired that to
    devalue others = devalue self
    All emotions either lower value or raise value
    of your experience (self-value)
    Devaluing gives shot of adrenaline
    amphetamine affect - feels better than
    vulnerability
    Most evil in world substituting power for
    value

    Dr. Steven Stosny


    Steven Stosny, Ph.D., is the founder of CompassionPower in
    suburban Washington, DC. Dr. Steven Stosny's most recent books
    are, Living and Loving after Betrayal, How to Improve your
    Marriage without Talking about It: Finding Love Beyond Words,
    and Love Without Hurt: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally
    Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One. He has
    appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "The Today Show," "CBS
    Sunday Morning," and CNN's "Talkback Live" and "Anderson
    Cooper 360" and has been the subject of articles in, The New York
    Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall
    Street Journal, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, O, Psychology Today, AP,
    Reuters, and USA Today. He has offered hundreds of workshops all
    over the world and has presented at most of the leading
    professional conferences. A consultant in family violence for the
    Prince George's County Circuit and District courts, as well as for
    several mental health agencies in Maryland and Virginia, he has
    treated over 6,000 clients for various forms of resentment, anger,
    abuse, and violence. He has taught at the University of Maryland
    and at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

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