Intermittent reinforcement (aka hot and cold) is the STRONGEST type of reinforcement. There have been studies done with rats to demonstrate its addictive nature. Two different groups of rats in cages had a lever to press which produced food pellets. In the first group every time they pressed the lever a pellet came out – these rats were fine and just learned to press the lever when they were hungry. The second group of rats the pellets came out intermittently and the rats ended up pressing the lever on repeat until they died. Until they DIED guys! That’s how strong intermittent reinforcement is.
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Your Patterns Will Keep Showing Up In Every Relationship
How we do one thing is how we do everything. If we have a pattern of thinking around lack and limitation it will show up in every area of our lives (relationships, money, career, health). This is because it is a mental filter that we view the world through. When we can change the filter our life circumstances will also change.
How Feeling and Processing Our Emotions Heals Us
We are energetic beings and we hold emotional energy from past experiences in our physical bodies. Many of us were not taught that it is okay and actually HEALTHY to feel our emotions. As a result many of us learned to suppress them and push them down in order to be loved or accepted.
Masculine and Feminine Energy Dynamics & Leaning Back in Dating
We have been trained in a society that encourages us to work harder, produce, get it done, and burn ourselves out to get the outcome and results that we want. This can work to a certain extent in some areas of life – but it really doesn’t support us with dating.
Surrender is not giving up. Surrender is releasing outcomes with deep trust.
What does it mean to surrender an outcome? Do you think that surrendering means you have to give up on what you want? The energy of pushing or forcing or controlling outcomes only goes so far. There isn’t much that is truly within our control.