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My Hidden Chimp: From the best-selling author of The Chimp Paradox

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In exchange for our contributions, we’re not only compensated in a monetary fashion but most critically, with a dose of soul-vacuum clearing sense of fulfillment. It seduces you to overthrow foresight and future planning. Commitments and new year resolutions evaporate under the inner chimpanzee’s tutelage. Then, there’s this special book that helped a great deal of people to find purpose in their lives. Some even claim, it saved their lives: 12 Rules for Life – An Antidote to Chaos. In this post, we’ll briefly explain the process of managing the inner chimp, known as emotional self-regulation, so that you can practice this with your child. How To Recognise And Regulate The Inner Chimp 1. Listen Out For Negative Words

The Chimp and the Human operate with different thought patterns, agendas (goals), and laws. We’ll explore each of these differences below. Your Inner Chimp Indulging too much in entertainment empowers the inner chimp’s dominion over you. Conversely, ignoring his attention-craving tirades puts him on a diet and toughens up the gatekeepers of your rational mind.

I’m not saying entertainment is harmful. On the contrary. Just in overdoses it robs you of your resources, kindles guilt, and empowers the chimp to take your driver’s seat more often. Keep reading for The Chimp Paradox worksheets, inspired by Steve Peters’ book. The Chimp Paradox: Worksheets Reflect on your responses during the day, identify Chimp-like responses and look at alternative ways of responding. You have to take responsibility for your chimp's responses. Describe a recent situation in which you allowed your emotions to control your reaction to something that someone else said or did. How did their words or actions trigger you, and how did you respond?

Nurture your autopilot responses to events or circumstances that keep recurring so you can ensure that the Chimp response doesn't define you. A Chimp response is a natural, if unhelpful response. As it is a prehistoric and simple creature it responds in simplistic, emotional ways. It's responses are not nuanced and complex enough to cope with anything beyond life or death survival. We can never be rid of it, but we can recognise it and circumvent it. However, sometimes, it’s a bit silly and thinks that everything is dangerous, even when it isn’t. 4. Draw Your Brain Being fully present and actively listening to your child when they share something like this is so important. It might tell you that because your friend played with someone else today, they don’t like you anymore.You can gain control of your Chimp by recognizing that when it decides on a course of action, it’s merely making a suggestion, not a command. So, when your Chimp wants that cookie, and asks your Human for permission to eat it, your Human does not have to say yes. The chapters I hoped might be immediately helpful to me were about stress. I definitely find my job stressful, and it will be especially so for the next three months. I am instinctively drawn to approaches that involve plans and lists, so appreciated that the suggestions featured both. Still, there wasn't much there that was new to me. It mostly reminded me that to remove the main source of stress in my life I'd need to get a new job, something I've been trying and failing to do for several years. Presumably I need a new plan. The concluding chapters about success, happiness, and confidence seemed less relevant, although again I liked their project-management-esque structured approach. Given my low mood while reading, it was a nice lift to stop and think of ten things that would immediately make me happy (going to the library, catching up with a friend, having a lie-in...) The material in the confidence chapter was largely familiar from CBT and thus a handy reminder: just do your best, as you can never achieve perfection. I have to tell myself this a lot at work. The genius of the book is that Peters takes complex information about the physical structure of our brain and builds a complementary psychological model that explains how each part contributes to our 'in-mind' experience each and everyday. At first my intuition was to rate this book as one star but finally, I decided it has some value that cannot be left out. In my opinion it's aimed only for people that just started their journey of self-discovery and trying to learn retrospective and analytical thinking. For people as such, there are interesting concepts and techniques in this book, that may help to navigate through the hard beginnings. And the Parietal (computer) part – broadly a storage (memory) and automatic functioning area of the brain (and therefore no longer featuring in this story).

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