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The Lefkoe Method

Painful Memories Don't Have to Be Painful

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 10.24.2012 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

Do you have memories that recur from time to time that are painful? Are there events from the past that upset you every time you recall them?

Disaster or Opportunity? You Choose

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 10.16.2012 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

Looking back at such experiences we often realize they weren't nearly as bad as they seemed. In fact, sometimes they even turned out to have a lot of benefits, yet at the time they seemed like disasters.

Treatment for Social Anxiety

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 08.08.2012 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

If you feel emotional discomfort about social situations, interactions with others, or being evaluated or judged by others, you may have "social anxiety" -- a problem shared by almost 20 million others in the United States.

How To Lose Weight Without Dieting or Pills

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 06.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

Between our obsession with our looks and the national crisis involving obesity, losing weight is constantly on the minds of tens of millions of people.

Why You Should Be Concerned About Your Beliefs

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 05.23.2012 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

You can make massive positive changes in your life -- such as taking actions you were afraid to take and ridding yourself of such negative feelings as anxiety and anger -- by eliminating your limiting beliefs.

Beliefs Determine Behavior, Right? Wrong.

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 05.08.2012 | Healthy Living
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At that point I realized that beliefs weren't the only cause of our feelings and that stimuli could be conditioned to cause emotions, such as being told what to do causing anger and not living up to expectations causing anxiety.

Why Are Sweets a Particular Problem for Some Emotional Eaters?

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 05.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

Some emotional eaters specifically crave sweets. They will eat non-sweets if that is all that's available, but they prefer sweets when they have been triggered (or when beliefs drive them) to eat.

Are Your Beliefs Making You Ill?

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 04.29.2012 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

One of the best proofs that beliefs have a powerful impact on our health has existed for years right under the noses of every physician in the world: the placebo effect.

Do You Have a Fear of Public Speaking?

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 04.10.2012 | Business
Morty Lefkoe

Now, today, we might realize that innovation is possible only if we are willing to try new things that might not work out. Mistakes are part of the process of doing something new and different.

Eliminate the Fear That Stops You

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 04.02.2012 | Business
Morty Lefkoe

Seth Godin did it again. I recently read his newest book, Poke the Box, and it's just the right book for our times. It probably will become his 13th...

Why Managers Tell People What To Do

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 03.13.2012 | Business
Morty Lefkoe

Despite the fact that younger members of the workforce are demanding the opportunity to think for themselves and contribute their brains as well as th...

Do You Feel You Don't Deserve Your Success?

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 02.21.2012 | Business
Morty Lefkoe

Are you one of the many executives who secretly feels that you are an impostor who doesn't really deserve your success? If so, you are not alone.

Do You Have a Hard Time Making Decisions?

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 01.31.2012 | Business
Morty Lefkoe

A recent survey of entrepreneurs and small business owners that I conducted revealed that most of them were afraid of making a decision. One of their...

How Our Perceptions Shape Our Reality

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

In order for anything to exist, it must be distinguished from everything else. If no distinction is made between a specific thing and everything else, then there is only an undifferentiated everything -- which is another way of saying nothing.

Why Do People Brag?

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

Bragging isn't bad, and it isn't wrong. It's merely the inevitable result of certain beliefs. It's not the bragging that you want to get rid of; it's the beliefs that have you brag to get the approval of others to feel okay about yourself.

Boy, was I wrong in my last eating blog post!

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

When I wrote my blog post on August 18 about how my new de-conditioning process would stop emotional eating, I made a few statements that I've since discovered just aren't true.

How To Create New Possibilities In Your Life

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Morty Lefkoe

it is unquestionably true that we literally create new possibilities in our lives -- a brand new reality -- by eliminating limiting beliefs.