When we imagine ourselves succeeding in a situation, it can work like imaginal ERP, making our amygdala less sensitive to it. Peter Gollwitzer, a psychology professor at NYU, has been studying this phenomenon since his 1982 article Symbolic Self-Competition. It's why you start to sweat or feel anxiety in situations …

Caroline was told to change into a scant gown and that the doctor would be with her shortly. It is because of this we hear of parents dictating a child's life from inception to career and eventually marriage. He captured the entire experience in an article titled Survival of the …

Autism, however, approaches behavior as part of the deficit rather than as a separate issue. Inertia sets in when we feel that we have no control over our circumstance so we just end up riding the wave and letting it deliver us where it will. I fell in love with …

Being the child of someone with BPD can be exquisitely painful. What are your thoughts about keeping people alive with machines in hospitals when they are terminally ill or have only a very slim chance of getting better? By pushing yourself though, you can be in a position to help …

This is not to say you don't aspire to an even better life. In a competitive workplace developing your emotional intelligence skills would be vital to your professional success. This all happened within half a second, and I knew I had to get control fast. Jungian analyst James Hillman refers …

As a nation we are suffering from a collection of common diseases, like cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and various cancers. Like moths to light, men are irresistibly drawn to her, but frightened of her at the same time. It would be a disgrace to the memory of all these people …

As you inhale, imagine new energy pouring into your body and spirit like a bright light. There is another possible approach that I'd like to suggest when there is a big issue which seems impossible to tackle head on in terms of creating a believable fantasy of your ideal scenario …

I'm actively making the future safer, and that keeps me from getting pessimistic about tomorrow. Rhubarb is recommended by alternative practitioners as a natural supplement for gastrointestinal problems, menopausal symptoms, allergies, and a variety of other conditions. Once you have satisfied the basic needs of food and shelter with money …

Have you ever been stuck in traffic, going slowly and everybody is late for work? So, rather than multi-tasking, what the brain is doing is putting down one activity, parking it and then picking up another. We would, I trust, be genuinely appalled to see a zookeeper feeding Froot Loops …

Breathing in deeply, I see all people healed and whole. For instance, someone else may have made the chair you sit on and the building you live in. In tradition and in articles an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other …

Every movement of the scale in the right direction is worth celebrating. It's not a question of fairness, but of making the most productive use of my time. Consider this in evolutionary terms: Being able to recall all the details of a particular event is not necessarily a survival advantage …

Belief #4--Others will give up, therefore, you will succeed As our collective consciousness embraces the belief that we can have the biology of youth with the wisdom of experience, it will become the pervasive experience. Chapman explained she would be happy just to get a couple of points on her …

Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm developed the concept in his article, The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil, distinguished malignant narcissism from benign narcissism, pointing out that malignant narcissists judge their self-worth based on special intrinsic qualities they believe they possess. A study completed in 1993, the Diabetes Control …

That very day, I deleted the apps from my phone and put blockers on my computer so I couldn't look at them. They are always happy and positive. The net result is a behavior that is seemingly inconsistent with their own apparent values, because the unspoken top value on the …

Bikram Choudhury developed Bikram Yoga with a bit of help from some scientists. Within Tom's psyche an infant child lives on who, at the oral stage of development when the capacity to trust begins to develop, cannot conceive that Mother, or those parts of Mother vital to the child like …

The Virginia Company was set up for the settlement of what is now the United States. Well, this seems so obvious that it's hardly worth mentioning. Ideally, the mentor would be someone further along in the writing field, someone knowledgeable who is also willing to share their wisdom and expertise …

If folk are tense and sad, it'll reflect in their productiveness. Or perhaps she would accept that neatness is not her roommate's strong point. In 2019, four years after a massive algal bloom cut off drinking water to half a million people, the city of Toledo, Ohio, granted Lake Erie …

sometimes the defense mechanisms that protect your ego are triggered in ways that can lead to you deceiving yourself. The same principles apply to all sorts of supposedly clear-cut rules. They were on the move, always seeking out an environment that would be more empowering to their clan. On a …

I succeeded in getting the father and mother together and proceeded to explain to them how children suffer from the mental and emotional climate of the home atmosphere. When you work with dying patients, you develop a meaningful relationship with the families of these patients. There are several women who …

And once again, his emotional escapes ramped up to the point where he wasn't leaving his bedroom except to join his wife for dinner or, when his wife insisted, for an occasional walk. Loving someone with a substance problem can be agony. Learning to journey with others is the paramount …

The implication was that these salespeople were successful because they never stopped working. It is best to continue to encourage as much activity as possible for as long as possible. For us all who are hanging tight for flawlessness, we can quit holding up this moment. Contacting it for seconds …

Experiments tell us that just interacting with complex situations without trying to figure them out can deliver a quality of understanding that defies reason and articulation. In the first situation, the stimulus to accommodate or focus was increased by moving the target closer (therefore simulating proximally induced accommodation); She sought …

The umbilical cord will be firm, blue in colour and pulsating as the blood flows through it. Together you and the client should keep track of the time and collaboratively decide what to do if time is running short. Human emotional responses are produced and regulated by a set of …

I am getting more accustomed to the idea of letting her be a person in her own way, making decisions and taking responsibility for them, and expressing herself spontaneously in her own inimitable way. According to a 2008 article in The New Zealand BeeKeeper, Professor Molan and his team analysed …

Just remember to keep your head down and keep going. The way in which your creativity expresses itself will be uniquely suited to you and the moment, so try not to be bound up in any ideas that creativity must mean a particular activity such as painting. You don't have …