Cognitive Vigilance, Stress, and Addiction
How does catching our own errors and correcting them protect us from stress? Can doing so also protect us from addiction?
The following articles are related to ‘Anxiety and Stress’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
How does catching our own errors and correcting them protect us from stress? Can doing so also protect us from addiction?
Is anger a finite substance that can be let out or kept in, which “goes off” if it is kept in, and feels good and constructive to let out? Is any kind of emotional energy like that?
In the previous post, I had a bit of a vent against both “positive thinking” and “negative thinking”. Is the answer not to think at all? Not according to the most helpful way of living with the power of thinking that I have ever come across.
The “Motiwake Personal Development Alarm Clock” awakens you with positive affirmations to programme you for the day. Many people use their own “Demotiwake Personal Alarm Clocks” instead. Isn’t it a better idea just to drop the programmes and relax?
Men can also be victims of sexual abuse and rape. Maybe they silence themselves and their experiences even more. What can be done with the trauma and shame which so many people carry around in secret?