We all have to deal with a certain level of anxiety in our life. In a way, minor anxiety is not a bad thing. However, when anxiety levels reach a significant level, there will be physical manifestations of this psychological problem. The most common (and severe) physical reaction is that of a panic attack.
Are you desperate to get a good night’s sleep but finding it impossible? Do you find yourself tossing and turning all night and when you do drift off, you wake up soon afterwards again? Is this something you’ve been experience for a few months, or do you experience these bouts every once in a while? Perhaps you’ve been having these bouts for year already but because they tend to come and go, you’ve always just battle your way through them. Well, if any of this sounds familiar, then I’m afraid that anxiety may very well be the cause of the insomnia.
Some people think that self-esteem means confidence - and of course confidence comes into it - but it’s rather more than that.
The fact is that there are any number of apparently confident people who can do marvelous things but who have poor self-esteem. Many people in the public eye fall into this category. Actors [...]
“How many minds have we?”
Much confusion has arisen due to the different terminologies by which mind is designated and the numerous minds man is supposed to have. One hears expressions such as subconscious, unconscious, superconscious, conscious; animal and human mind; lower and higher; subjective and objective, that the layman gets bewildered, and fails to progress [...]
No study is more fascinating or of greater benefit than the subject mind.
It has engaged the most powerful intellects of all ages, from the days of Aristotle down to the present. However, during the last two thousand years, that is with the exception of the last one hundred years, not much progress has been [...]
“The unconscious “you” is that vast, hidden, powerful force within you, as propounded originally by the father of psychiatry”
Dr. Sigmund Freud envisioned the unconscious as the repository of all dissatisfied urges and impulses, as the storehouse of all resentments, inhibitions, grievances and frustrations. He saw the primacy of sex as the motivating force in the [...]
WHETHER OR NOT you are aware of it, you are a composite being with several different “you” in control, one overlapping the other. There are outer and inner “you”.
One of the outer “you” is your body and its component parts, that are visible and invisible to the eye. This includes all the inner organs, the [...]
It is in your awareness that there are disturbing factors in your present emotional make-up. It is in your desire to look for the contributory causes and try to eliminate them. It is in your reading these lines and in your willingness to follow through in the projected thirty-day plan. It is in your readiness [...]
Definition of Fear
Fear is an emotional response to tangible and realistic dangers. Fear should be distinguished from anxiety, an emotion that often arises out of proportion to the actual threat or danger involved, and can be subjectively experienced without any specific attention to the threatening object.
Old English faer, the ancestor of our word fear, meant [...]
