Accepting ourselves – the key to success Accepting ourselves – the key to successAccepting ourselves – the key to successOur mental teamAccepting ourselves improves performanceSources of benevolence towards ourselvesBuild a strong mental team “Everything we do for ourselves, we do for others, and everything we do for others, we do for ourselves.” – Thich Nhat […]
Are wrath and revenge admissible? In “The Philosophy of Wrath” Agnes Callard approaches the difficult subject wisely and courageously and comes to unsettling conclusions. The Philosophy of Wrath
What are strengths, and what are not?What are strengths, and what are not?What are strengths?Overview of virtues and strengthsOther more or less close relatives of strengths: Why do we find it difficult to name our strengths? Our culture brings with it a “guilt pattern” from history. Misconduct, failure, omissions – all are ascribed to a
Jon Kabat-Zinn reading Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” Jon Kabat-Zinn reading Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will
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FearFearSymptoms of anxietyAnxiety – psychologyAnxiety – conditioningAnxiety – neurobiologyAmygdalaCortexHypothalamus Fear is one of the basic emotions (joy, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise). It is an innate reaction pattern with a protective and warning function that we share with our mammalian relatives. (A distinction is often made between anxiety and fear. Fear is then seen as a
