Boo!- Did you jump? That startle response is universal among humans — and possibly even across the animal kingdom. It can be unsettling, but it could also serve a vital purpose. So what causes us to become scared stiff? One well-known chemical in our brain appears to be responsible. Study Links Serotonin to Startle Response - If fear has ever stopped you in your tracks — literally like a deer staring...
I have often lain in my husband’s arms and made him promise to never leave me. Though I know they are only words, I still want to be assured again and again. Lady Mary Pierrepont understood this. In a letter to her future husband, Edward Montagu, on the eve of their marriage in 1712, she wrote: “Are you sure you shall love me forever? Shall we never repent? I fear and I hope.” - “I fear and hope.”...
Try as one can to protect a young child from terrifying images and vivid news stories about school shootings, the realities of these incidents will become the topic of conversation for children of all ages. A child of any age may get as much mis-information as actual factual information from peers: in some instances, the silence about school violence can scare a child as much as known facts. Some parents...
Everything you would like to experience in Life is just beyond F.E.A.R. F-alse -E-vidence -A-ppearing -R-eal. In my last post-, I started to mention the tool of -T.A.C.T - T-elling the -A-bsolute -C-omplete -T-ruth. So TACT is a tool with which we remind ourselves about levels of truth and how we use them. Using TACT in your life does not give you permission to be hurtful, disrespectful or rude, however...
Everything you would like to experience in Life is just beyond F.E.A.R. F-alse -E-vidence -A-ppearing -R-eal - It is amazing the stories we get caught up in when faced with challenges, obstacles or problems that life shows us on a daily basis…the chatter starts: - “This is not supposed to be this way” or - “This shouldn’t be happening” - “Why me?” - “If I was just good enough” - “This is too difficult/hard”...
In James Allen's timeless masterpiece, “As A Man Thinketh," he describes fear like this: - “Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease;...