Total Behavior: What is it

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Total Behavior What is it?

• Learn What Makes You Tick!
• Adapted from Glassers Choice Theory and Reality
  Therapy

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Health Curriculum for the Arrow Program

• By
• Valerie Shekarforoosh

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All Behavior is Purposeful

• All behavior is connected to what we really want,
  in other words, our Quality World.

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Quality World

• Our Quality World is connected to our Basic
  Needs.
• All Behavior is an attempt to get our Basic Needs
  met.

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Basic Needs

• All human beings have the same
• Basic Needs.
• These Basic Needs are
• Love and Belonging
• Fun
• Freedom
• Power
• Survival

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Activities

• 4. All Basic Needs can be met through many
  different activities.

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Total Behavior has four parts.
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Thinking

• Thoughts come before every action.
• We can learn to recognize our thoughts.
• We can learn to stop our thoughts
• We can learn to direct our thoughts
• We can control what we are thinking!

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Doing

• What we do is influenced by what we think.
• All actions are purposeful, that is our actions
  are related to our wants.
• Our wants are related to trying to meet our basic
  needs
• Our basic needs are love/belonging, fun,
  freedom, power, and survival.
• We can change what we are doing to change what we
  are thinking.

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Emotions

• We always have an emotion connected to whatever
  we are thinking or doing.
• Emotions help us know if we are meeting our basic
  needs.
• Emotions clue us in, to know if we are happy or
  not.
• Some emotion words are happy, sad, calm, angry,
  etc.

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Body Signals

• We always have a body signal (physical sensation)
  that accompanies what we are thinking.
• We always have a body signal that accompanies
  what we are doing.
• We always have a body signal that accompanies
  what emotion we are feeling.
• Some body signals are tight muscles, upset
  stomach, headache, clenched fists, etc.

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WHAT DO YOU DO

• TO GET WHAT YOU NEED?

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Think about Total Behavior as being your car of
life
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• Your basic needs are like your engine that
  drives the car.

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• Your steering wheel, or what you really really
  want, determines the direction you take.

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Your thinking and doing wheels change the
direction of where your car is going.
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Your feeling and body signal wheels go wherever
your wants, thinking and doing wheels take them.
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Get in the Drivers seat of your Car of Life.
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Drive where you want to go!!!!