Strategies for Becoming a Healthy Bunny Establish a model for understanding your cognition o Computers You only have

ve so much brain processing power Much of this processing power is devoted to automatically performing certain functions, like social functions Worrying, stressing out, allowing yourself to continually think anxious thoughts, and similar negative behaviors can take up a lot of processing power and prevent you from spending this on more important things You can reallocate the processing load according to your desires You dont need to worry or stress out, so the energy you are spending on worrying or stressing out is wasted Once you identify that you are spending energy in an undesirable way (e.g. worrying), you can change how you allocate that energy and put it to a more productive use Reallocation itself takes some processing power at the time of reallocation, and learning to reallocate takes additional processing power constantly until you have mastered the skill, so you should lower overall processing load by using efficient thinking tactics in general o Compass Identify what your goals and desires are ahead of time and use these as the North Star against which you measure your progress in any direction When your thoughts and actions are off-track, realign yourself o Any metaphor Metaphors help you visualize and make sense of information in nonordinary ways; storytelling is an extremely effective way of monitoring and changing your behavior; and pretending and imagination can actually lead to the object of pretend or imagination becoming real (e.g. pretend to be a spy, start conducting countersurveillance, and eventually you become an actual expert in countersurveillance even if youre not a spy) Maintain awareness of your body o Begin to notice when your teeth or fists are clenched, when you are in physical pain, when you are hungry, when you are tired, and, importantly, how you appear to others Practice biofeedback exercises until you can identify discrete muscle groups and nerve centers all over your body As you go through your day, STOP what you are doing or focusing on and perform random checks over significant areas of your body (e.g. feel if your jaw is clenched, if your stomach is growling, if you feel lightheaded) When a problem is identified, solve it THEN (see problem ID below)

Watch other people and how they position their bodies, the expressions they use, the mannerisms and words they adopt, and try to identify what their external signs tell you about their physical and mental state Maintain awareness of your cognitive processes o Begin to listen to your thoughts as you think them Imagine that you are outside yourself, as if you were a secretary dictating thoughts for yourself Visualize the words as they flow past in your mind: see them as if they were on a piece of paper or a scrolling marquee Note how the words sound, which words you use, the pace at which you are speaking to yourself, whether certain words or ideas are repeated, whether there are connections between proximate thoughts and if so also the nature the connections and thoughts Identify whether the thoughts you are thinking align with your desires: if your thoughts are racing by and youre cursing to yourself, you can pretty quickly identify that, at the very least, your thoughts are unproductive and you could be spending your mental energy elsewhere o Begin to identify habits, patterns of conduct, and how you view yourself