On the first page of “Anger: How to Live With and Without It.” Albert Ellis writes, “Most psychologists agree that you absolutely must feel anger. They see the newborn infant as expressing emotions comparable to anger and rage in the first hours of life.” Continue reading
Sitting in Loews Hollywood Hotel, not a guest but waiting for our daughter and son-in-law, I had my computer with me and could/should be working on my blog post due the next day. Almost an hour passed, but being a procrastinator, I could not get motivated to open the computer cover. My only chance over this busy weekend to work on my blog. I was time-stressed. Continue reading
The simple act of adjusting your posture works as an instant shift of focus. You may not notice the difference in how you feel, but research indicates a shift in affect (emotion/feeling) after adjusting posture. Continue reading
Bad News: Life is one problem after another.
Good News: Problems offer opportunities to check whether you are caught up in a Mind Drama of thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Each problem offers the chance to observe triggers setting off Mind Drama. Not only observe; problems offer the opportunity of Mind Lifting.
Working in his lab with rats, Jaak Panksepp found seven primary-process emotional systems built into the brain by evolution. We and all other mammals are born with these innate neural systems in our brains. We are always on the lookout for something that we might need or want, or something that might just interest us or satisfy our curiosity. Our SEEKING systems keep us in a state of engagement with the world. “Beginning at birth, it is “a goad without a goal.” Continue reading
Saying I’m grateful doesn’t mean much when I am bitter about my abusive childhood. Even if I leave my childhood somewhat behind, I am not the warm, tender, caring and loving man I would choose to be. Continue reading
At the moment, most researchers use the temperament to refer to behaviors rather than brain profiles. Brain profiles are definitive, permanent, inherited brain anatomies. In my blog writings to this point, I leaned toward behaviors rather than brain profiles. Continue reading
“Implicit bias is the concept of hidden biases that all individuals carry from a lifetime of experiences with social groups – age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, or nationality.” Harvard psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji. has written two books on it. Continue reading
“Total Self-Renewal through Attention Therapies and Open Focus” (Sample chapters on Amazon.)
Alternate Title: “Attention Therapies for Total Self-Renewal with 50 Bits–All We Have– Attention”