(Exploring Your Mind) The phenomenon of the moth to a flame is a metaphor about emotional dependence. It’s about how you sometimes feel attracted to the things that harm you. On the flip side, it may also lead you to fear the very thing that can free you.
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The Science Behind Yoga and Stress
(Dr. M Storoni MD PhD) There are two functional parts of the brain that play a key role in stress. These serve the functions of emotion and cognitive function. So I am calling them the ’emotional’ brain (amygdala and its connections and medial forebrain structures including the medial prefrontal cortex) and the ‘logical’ brain (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, other parts of the prefrontal cortex, parts of the cingulate cortex and parts of the hippocampus).
Hidden Anger: The Emotion that Changes Our Personality
(Exploring Your Mind) Hidden anger often arises from disappointments, unprocessed traumas, and injustices.
Exercise, Memory and Learning Linked by Science: A Short Bout of Exercise Enhances Brain Function
(Science Daily) Neuroscientists, working with mice, have discovered that a short burst of exercise directly boosts the function of a gene that increases connections between neurons in the hippocampus, the region of the brain associated with learning and memory.
Crying Therapy: How to Stop Being an Emotionally Repressed Person
(Aletheia Luna) Growing up, I rarely saw my parents cry. I’ve never once seen my father cry, and have only ever seen my mother cry a handful of times. But you know, I’m not alone in these observations. Many of you would have grown up with very stoic parents like myself, rarely seeing tears of joy or happiness emerge from their eyes.
25 Quotes to Foster Emotional Resilience
(Therese J. Borchard) “I ask not for a lighter burden, but broader shoulders,” says a Jewish proverb. That is the essence of emotional resilience … broader shoulders. We can’t control what illness we are diagnosed with, what tragedies come our way, or how many disappointments we will run into in our day.
Emotional Armor: A Double-Edged Sword
(Exploring your Mind) It may be hard to face whatever’s happening in your life, either because you’re afraid, don’t know how to act, or because you’re trying to avoid suffering again. In cases like this, perhaps you’re “wearing an emotional armor” in order to protect yourself.
Use Your Thoughts to Shape Your Life and Think Your Way to Good Health
(Edsel Cook) Mind over matter, indeed. Your thoughts can change the order of your life. If you think you are healthy, you will enjoy good health.
Creating a Family Culture Around Emotional Self-Regulation
(Erina White, PhD, MPH, MSW) Most of us know a family that speaks a foreign language at home. Children in these families can switch seamlessly between the language they speak with their parents and the one they speak with their peers, teachers, and other adults. This facility with multiple languages benefits children in numerous ways, including in being able to navigate a multicultural world.
The Mental Toll of Being Overweight: Having Positive Outlook and a Healthy BMI Often Go Hand-in-hand
(Jhoanna Robinson) A recent study has shown that people who manage to keep their weight down have the most probability of keeping their spirits up.
Don’t Believe Everything You Think — Your Thoughts Are Tools of Evolution, Use Them Wisely
(Justin Deschamps) Who are you? Are you your feelings? Are you your thoughts? Are you your desires? What makes you, you? These are essential questions that make us think about things we often take for granted. Identity describes your sense of self, based on what you choose to invest yourself in. If you think you are your thoughts, desires, or instincts, then they’ll dominate your decision-making process. But it’s important to remember that there are layers to your being. Life is about growth and evolution, which often involves identifying with things in one phase of our lives, only to change later. If you identify with the wrong things, you can be led astray, creating drama and problems for you and others.
The Five Fears All Humans Share — How the Deep State Uses Fear Against Us
(Justin Deschamps) Fear is an ancient emotion that has a great power to change our state of consciousness. Fear helps us identify threats and draws our attention to things so we can gain knowledge about them. But when we can’t channel the energy of fear productively, this emotion can breakdown causing us a lot of problems. The Deep State know this, and they use fear as a tool of control. But with self-knowledge, you can defend yourself by learning how to control your fears.
How to Stay Calm Like a Navy Seal
(Christina Sarich) Life abounds with stress-making, havoc-provoking mayhem. Did you misplace your keys when you were already late for work this morning? Was traffic worse today than after a 5-car accident on a Los Angeles turnpike? Is your boss expecting the impossible from you, while you stare into your kid’s eyes and choke back tears explaining you’re going to have to miss their game–again?
Parasitic Emotional Manipulators
(Lisa Renee) One principle to remember is that controlling and dominating people and the nonphysical entities that are parasitic, will always use manipulation to get what they want. Usually it is to maintain their attachment to siphon energy or to use someone else’s energy to get things they want for themselves. This may be a person who doesn’t want to put forth the effort or energy to do things themselves, so they manipulate others to do it for them.