Sometimes we get confused about who we're supposed to be. Sure we know how we act, but we don't always act the way we'd like to. We know how we feel about certain things, but that sometimes changes throughout life, too. So what is our true personality? What does really mean to be you? Take a test and get a very good hint...
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Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Here's a very inspiring piece by Scott Kalechstein Grace.
Excerpt:
Do gratitude, contentment, and inner peace sometimes creep up on you and undermine your ability to indulge your anxiety?
Here’s a quick and handy two-step process to make sure you get your M.D.R. (minimum daily requirements) of worry and chaos.
1. Believe and act like your safety, security, and happiness are dependent on people and forces outside of you that you can’t control.
2. Try to control them.
For those of you who prefer to keep it complex, here are seven habits to develop that will help you go deeper into your practice and guarantee a daily overdose of adrenaline. Allow me to be your drama director as we shout out the traditional opening words… “Lights! Camera!! RE-ACTION!!!
#1. Harness The Power Of Negative Thinking - Everybody accentuates the negative on occasion. What if I can’t pay my bills? What if I lose my house? What if I get sick? What if I’m alone for life? What if I’m in this relationship for life? But as your drama coach, I want to inspire you to master 'The Secret' by focusing all of your attention on the most negative possible outcomes all of the time. When this discipline has been achieved, you can relax into the certainty that you will always find something to freak out about in any situation, and fear will never abandon you again.
#2. Be Busy Till You’re Dizzy - Being too busy to still your mind and take good care of your body is essential on the path to drama-realization. Temptation is everywhere these days - health food stores, spas, gyms, yoga studios, meditation classes, and it takes courage to maintain abstinence while the whole world is stretching, sweating, chanting, and going organic. Remember, as our parents tried to warn us, engaging in meditation can lead to blindness, losing sight of all the things right in front of you to worry about. So wake up every morning painfully early, splash cold water on your face, brew up your caffeine, and go, speed racer, go! Have you answered all your emails? Who needs a shoulder to lean on? Is there something on TV? Always make sure your life and your mind are filled with clutter and free of those annoying empty spaces between your thoughts that can disturb your absence of peace.
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I have a few friends who adopted children because of various reasons. Most of them are going through challenges and they persevered because of love.
Here is a study that seems to indicate that people must move cautiously and understand more beyond the birth certificate.
Excerpt:
According to a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota, adoption is linked with a higher prevalence of mental health problems in children than in non-adopted ones. The study went as follows:
The adoption study compared a random sample of 540 adolescents born in Minnesota, who were not adopted, with a representative sample of adoptees (514 international adoptees and 178 domestic adoptees). The children had been placed by the 3 largest adoption agencies in Minnesota.3
“All of the kids were adopted within the first 2 years of life, but the great majority were adopted within the first year,” said Margaret A. Keyes, PhD, lead author of the study and a research psychologist. “The average age at placement was 4 months. So it is not as if you are looking at 3- and 4-year-olds coming over on a plane from a faraway country.”
At the time of the assessments, the study participants ranged in age from 11 to 21 years. The assessments were rigorous and involved use of the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents-Revised (DICA-R) and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID-II). (Both had been updated to cover DSM-IV criteria.) The modified DICA-R was also administered to mothers of participants to assess disorders in their children (Kaplan, 2009).
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Everyone has that guy friend who habitually (and understandably) complains that he always attracts 'crazy' women. These women tend to be extremely insecure, manipulative, unbalanced and emotionally unstable. As Dr. Tara J. Palmatier points out, the reason such men typically habitually end up in such relationships is because they choose to relive early childhood traumas. But before we discuss what motivates men to unconsciously seek out such titillating but ultimately poor relationship choices, we should first define what we mean by 'crazy.' The sort of women in mind are those diagnosed with at least one Cluster B personality disorder.
Cluster B of personality disorders are those categorized in the DSM-IV as 'erratic/dramatic', and include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. A great deal of overlap between these disorders is acknowledged in a large body of psychiatric literature, and anyone properly diagnosed with any of these personality disorders makes an extremely toxic romantic partner. There is also a very poor prognosis associated with these disorders. Such people (in this case, women) are highly unlikely to ever exhibit any significant change or insight into their own behavior, or improve their condition.
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A little-understood inherited temperament could be impacting your life or someone you love in surprising ways.
Psychologist Elaine Aron‘s research on a temperament category she describes as the “highly sensitive person” (HSP) has been gaining increased attention in recent years, and giving many people a big “aha” moment. Could you be among the 15-20 percent of the population she believes make up this group? I’ve learned that I am, and finding this out has changed the way I look at…everything.
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Those who are in touch with me via email would be well aware of the fact that I have weaned myself off the net. Please forgive me because my replies to emails are very slow. I hardly ever check into my Facebook - the last time was probably in May and I do not trawl the net like I used to do. There are many reasons for this and one of them is to reduce my exposure to EMF and RF. Another is to reduce my exposure to mind control or subliminal programming. If you think I am being unduly paranoid, please take a look at the following article which discusses in detail what will befall us in the future.
Dog lovers would probably agree when I say that humans are kinder to their pets than their own kids when dealing with their naughty behaviour. However, how many of you know that some dogs cannot lie and own up to their guilt when their antics have been discovered?
The first dog who dared to come out in YouTube and confess with a guilty look is none other than Denver.
This official Denver Guilty Dog video has more than 23 million hits with over 20 000 comments.
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Denver also appeared on Good morning, America together with his owners and fellow canine friend.
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Julie Hecht has written an excellent post here on guilt.
It is definitely a MUST READ so please CLICK HERE to read her thoughts after you have watched those two videos.
Have a nice day!
In an article in Psychology Today titled Combatting the 'I’m Powerless' Myth, Dr. Bill Knaus, Ed.D. in Science and Sensibility wrote:
Do people who repeatedly put themselves through an emotional wringer suffer from a denial of responsibility for extending a self-sabotaging lifestyle? Dr. Jon Carlson, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University, and author or coauthor of over 45 books, hones in on a major therapeutic and self-help challenge that both Albert Ellis, the founder of rational emotive behavior therapy, and Alfred Adler, the founder of Individual Psychology, saw as pivotal to positive change: Stop complaining and blaming and start taking responsibility for your own self-changing.
Albert Ellis frequently told me how his REBT approach shared so much in common with the work of Alfred Adler. Perhaps the most apparent similarity, and the focus of this blog, is the notion of the client’s responsibility or their role in the problem that brought them to therapy.
Counselors are traditionally trained to listen empathically and to capture the essence of each client’s message. The goal is to become a mirror so clients can see their problem from a different perspective and develop an alternative response.
Unfortunately, too many clients are unaware of their role in their own problem and act as though they are powerless because they did not do anything wrong. They sound like whiners talking about their problems as if they had nothing to do with them. They continue to think and speak as if life is unfair to them and fail to see their role in any aspect of the problem. They have unfair bosses, disloyal friends, insensitive partners and so on. Nowhere in their conceptualization of the problem do they see themselves. The counselor who listens and reflects unintentionally communicates to clients that they have a valid point of view (i.e., that everything happens to them and they are powerless).
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A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet dachshund along for company. One day the dachshund started chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovered that he was lost.
While wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having him for lunch. The dachshund thinks,
"Okay, I'm in deep trouble now!"
Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the dachshund exclaims loudly,
"Boy, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here?"
Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees.
"Whew," says the leopard. "That was close. That dachshund nearly had me."
Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard.
So, off he goes, but the dachshund saw him heading after the leopard with great speed and figured that something must be up.
The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.
The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back and just see what's going to happen to that conniving canine."
Now the dachshund sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?"
But instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them and just when they get close enough to hear, the dachshund says,
"Where is that monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard."
If you can't outrun them, outwit them.
~ The Author of the above story is unknown but the study of which is wiser, the cannine or feline has received a good deal of study.
Check out the following article:
Are Dogs More Intelligent than Cats? by Stanley Coren, Ph.D in Psychology Today
Dogs are smarter than cats and their advantage is increasing.
Published on December 3, 2010 by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. in Canine Corner
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