Addiction is kind of a scary word, a concept much stigmatized and pushed to the edge of society. We say it can happen to anybody but secretly want to believe that it can’t happen to ourselves. It’s a concept that I’m vaguely familiar with but one I’m also facing as a fire bug, realizing that it’s something I must confront along with addressing the other anxiety issues in my own life in my therapy sessions. Addicting behaviors at one level are a lot of fun but at the same time they can become a problem when they are too big of a portion of one’s life.
Monday and Wednesday look to be worse days of the week, with showers and cold on Thursday. Other then that a fairly seasonable week, with maybe some needed precipitation to reduce the fire risk and help things green up. At times the temperatures will be a bit below normal but not super cold.
After getting high for the first time, the individual becomes hooked to the substance or activity because the brain releases dopamine, nature’s happy drug. This stimulant has also proven to improve learning and boost memory.
Compulsive behavior begins when the brain responds to the activity or substance with pleasure. It also stores these enticing memories thus making the individual crave more.
You might be thinking that you have no control over your addictions since the brain stimulates dopamine by itself. But this is not the case. You can overcome your addictions today using simple proven methods. Thousands of people have done it across the world. Why not you?
Today, we are going to discuss ten powerful proven tips on overcoming any kind of addiction. You have the power to do this. Keep reading.
The “stages of change” or “transtheoretical” model is a way of describing the process by which people overcome addiction. The stages of change can be applied to a range of other behaviors that people want to change, but have difficulty doing so, but it is most well-recognized for its success in treating people with addictions.
Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to the time system used in France for a few years beginning in 1792 during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100000 decimal seconds per day), as opposed to the more familiar UTC time standard, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds (86400 SI seconds per day).
The main advantage of a decimal time system is that, since the base used to divide the time is the same as the one used to represent it, the whole time representation can be handled as a single string. Therefore, it becomes simpler to interpret a timestamp and to perform conversions. For instance, 1:23:45 is 1 decimal hour and 23 decimal minutes and 45 decimal seconds, or 1.2345 decimal hours, or 123.45 decimal minutes or 12345 decimal seconds; 3 hours is 300 minutes or 30,000 seconds. This property also makes it straightforward to represent a timestamp as a fractional day, so that 2021-04-18.54321 can be interpreted as five decimal hours and 43 decimal minutes and 21 decimal seconds after the start of that day, or a fraction of 0.54321 (54.321%) through that day (which is shortly after traditional 13:00). It also adjusts well to digital time representation using epochs, in that the internal time representation can be used directly both for computation and for user-facing display.
The proponents of the French Revolution were so smart. Why don't we use their time system?
