Change Your Mood, Habits and Life

Many first responders think we are the conscious captains of our fate. We begin each day making deliberate high-level choices while viewing our lives as a series of independent decisions. However, the neurological facts are far less romantic.

• Researcher at Duke University reported that 45% of our daily behaviors are not conscious decisions at all, rather automated habits and sub-conscious routines.

• We are walking-talking collections of our neural routines and daily habits.

• Habits are a set of automatic unconscious thoughts, behaviors and emotions that develop through repetition and time.

• For the most part you keep creating the same life as you go through the same series of daily routine habits, emotions and behaviors.

• The stronger the emotional reaction you have to some perception or event in your life the more you pay attention to the perceived cause. Your brain takes a snapshot and that’s called a memory and long-term memories are created from very highly emotional experiences.

• If you allow that emotional reaction to last for hours or days, that becomes a mood.

• If you allow this emotional reaction to continue for weeks or months it can develop into a temperament.

• If you continue with the same emotional reaction for years it manifests into personality traits and disorders.

By the age of twenty, 95% of who we are, or our conscious self is a memorized set of behaviors, emotional reactions unconscious habits, hard-wired attitudes, cognitive beliefs and perceptions that operate like a computer program. It is nearly impossible with the remaining 5% of our conscious self to say I want to be healthy, happy, or free because your body’s operating system is on a different software program. Dr. Krawczyn will discuss how to change your moods into healthy habits and regain control over your software.

Dr. Jorey L. Krawczyn has an extensive career extending over 55 years in law enforcement, forensic psychology and teaching. His law enforcement experience ranges from undercover narcotics investigations to the administrative duties of Chief of Police (Retired). He was in private practice for twelve years with psychiatrist A. Mohmed, MD. where he authored over 400 court ordered comprehensive forensic evaluations. 

He has testified as an Expert Witness in twenty-three State and Federal Court cases and is a regular psychological consultant to Nancy Grace’s Crime-Line broadcasts having appeared on over 65 episodes in the last two years. He holds a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice Administration, one Master’s in Human Development, a second Masters in Instructional Design and a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology. Dr. Krawczyn has authored two books, Practical Considerations for Preventing Police Suicides (Springer, 2021) and Suicide Inoculation – Relational Purpose (Amazon, 2025).