Sentences with phrase «habitual behaviours»

This includes the use of MP3's for guided practices, reflective exercises that support becoming more aware of habitual behaviours, and optional readings.

Ann M. Graybiel, of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, at MIT, has identified and traced neural loops going from the outer layer of the brain to a region called the striatum and back again, and revealed that these form the basis for linking sensory cues to actions involved in habitual behaviours.

The treatment also helps people reduce the amount of times they avoid difficult situations and helps them find alternatives to unhelpful habitual behaviours.

You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want, even though you may feel compelled to continue your habitual behaviour.»

Habit and habitual behaviour is among the centrepieces of human existence.

Peer Window is set entirely within the perspective of a window frame to reflect Puss's habitual behaviour of staring out from the windows, whereas Woofering Heights incorporates slow moving scenery and a cast of dogs that are relaxing by the picturesque landscapes.

Depriving the common object of its functional purpose modifies the habitual behaviour between it and a person.

That might be recognised in a mother's habitual behaviour toward her youngest son, usually precipitated by his childishness, where the absence of emotional involvement with her husband (whose occupational role has taken him increasingly out of family life) was a disposing factor because neither parent have acknowledged the family life cycle issues they face after 25 years of marriage.

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Habitual bipedal locomotion is a defining feature of modern humans compared with other primates, and the evolution of this behaviour in our clade would have had profound effects on the biologies of our fossil ancestors and relatives.

The researchers demonstrated that all of the disorders were connected by a shift away from goal - directed behaviours towards automatic habitual choices.

Sedentary behaviour is defined as habitual sitting time.

More recently, Wendy Wood of the University of Southern California and her colleagues have shown how almost half of the behaviours we adopt in any given situation are habitual — an automated action learned by repetition until we do it without thinking.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), a style of therapy based on changing ingrained and habitual thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that may be contributing to low mood, is one of the main therapeutic modalities for depression and is supported by a number of studies.

Redirecting your dog's attention may work as well — proving him with toys or balls or a quick game of «fetch» will help distract your dog and break the chain of behaviour before it becomes habitual.

The behaviour of any family member (not just that of the symptomatic family member) is viewed as inclined toward homeostasis i.e. returning the family to its habitual mode whenever family members are faced with some external or internal stress.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is designed to bring awareness to the habitual negative thinking that leads to depressive and anxious spirals.