Each day, we can choose to act in ways that are consistent with our goals and identities, or we can make poor choices and let bad habits take hold. What we do will affect our futures in a very real and physical way, by altering the neural footprints in our brains.
The brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the acions we have taken.
To stop [binge eating], Trimpey says, you must know that your animal brain cannot make you do anything, because it doesn‘t have control over your voluntary muscles. Because the human brain houses your true self and your voluntary muscles movements, you - your true self - have ultimate control.
The only thing the animal brain can do on its own is send messages urging the bulimic to binge eat, but ultimately, the true self - residing in the human brain - is in control of what that person does upon hearing the call of the animal brain.
Attemting to argue or reasom with the AV is futile, he writes, because the animal brain is not rational (based on facts or reason) and doesn‘t listen to reason. You only need to recognize it, ignore it, and it will soon fall silent. Trimpey says that once you learn to seperate yourself from the animal brain and realize you are in control, your urges to [binge] begin to taper off, and stopping your addiction for good becomes easy.
I decided to view any thought or feeling encouraging binge eating as an automatic function of my animal brain, believing that it had no power to affect my actions. I decided I would seperate myself from my urges to binge and use the power of my human brain to choose not to follow them.
A part of my brain had become dependent on binge eating, and that was why I fount it so hard to stop.
I heard all the familiar reasons I should binge, and I felt the craving, but I told myself those thoughts and feeling were not my own. I told myself those thoughts and feelings were coming from an automatic, unthinking part of my brain that mistakenly sensed that I needed to binge to survive.
I told myself that I was completely separate from the part of my brain that generated these cravings, and I reminded myself that I had complete control. I pictured myself standing outside my own brain looking in, listening to those thoughts as if they were distant from my own, and knowing that my cravings had absolutely no power to make me act. I reminded myself that I - my higher brain, my human brain - was the only one who could walk to the refrigerator and begin to binge. And I chose not to.
I didn‘t have to try to talk myself out of my thoughts or feelings: I didn‘t have to reason with them or fight them; I didn‘t have to try futilely to distract myself; I didn‘t have to try to figure out what triggered my urge; and I didn‘t have to determine what emotional need my urge symbolized. Observing my brain in this way allowed me to see that my urges to binge symbolized nothing.
I realized I was the only one to blame for keeping up my behavior, and I was the only one responsible for stopping it.
However, I found that if I stayed detached from any thought or feeling that encouraged binge eating - no matter how reasonable or logical it sounded at the time - no thought or feeling could make me act.
I binged to cope with the urge to binge.
I decided that I was going to try to stop reacting emotionally to my urges and stop acting on them. I decided I would just let my thoughts and feelings about food surface, then observe them as if they were not coming from me. Then I would not do what they told me to do.
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