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Fear comes when I make a cognitive appraisal, where I assess my perceived ability against my perceived risk in a situation and if I feel out of balance, I am going to have a fear response. Now what I do with that is up to me! I can either allow a hostile take over of […]
If you feel huge negative emotion you are close to something that means to something to you, you are close to the main artery of your identity. This negative emotion is a guide that you are on track but probably pointing the wrong way. Esther had this experience when confronted by Mordecai her uncle with […]
The challenge in our generation is how do you encourage deeper forms of reflection on what makes life worth living in the culture in which we live, when people are bombarded from all sides with multiplicity of not just choices but promises of happiness. Every new product, and gadget in consumer goods could be described as the […]
NeuroScientists are showing that our emotional and physical wounds light up the same spot in the brain. This has led me to wonder whether as in a physical injury where we are loath to touch the tender spot because it is so painful whether it is the same emotionally as it is also too painful […]
Your stress response gives you the energy to perform at peak performance. Whether you feel stressed or stimulated depends upon the ratio of demands versus control that are put upon you. So how do you get control? 1. Limit your focus to the concerns of the day. Jesus said, “Do not worry about tomorrow. For tomorrow […]
Most of us live our lives on automatic pilot and we are oblivious to the fact that we are not present most of the time. That leads us to the past over determining the present because we are not there to take use of current information. Everything is dictated by what was true before and we […]
Economist and academic Noreena Hertz, who coined the term Generation K (after Katniss) for those born between 1995 and 2002, says that this is a generation riddled with anxiety, distrustful of traditional institutions from government to marriage, and, “like their heroine Katniss Everdeen, [imbued with] a strong sense of what is right and fair”.“I think […]
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