Using Your Own Dreams

This article discusses ways you can make better use of your dreams. It includes tips for recording and remembering your dreams. It also offers ideas for making use of your dreams for better understanding of yourself.

Stress Anxiety

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. Stress and anxiety are both normal parts of life and are both normal feelings experienced by everyone. In little and manageable amounts these could add up to one's capacity for production. It could give you the motivation, for example, to review for the oncoming major exam or to prepare yourself for the job interview. OR, it could give you the extra spark to help you get out of any situation, in a way surviving an experience. However, too much stress and anxiety could be very disruptive, giving you feelings fear and dread with no apparent reasons.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. To a person with social anxiety, going through daily public affairs is a torture. He knows that if someone initiates a talk with him in public, his voice and his hesitation would give away his fears. Going through job interviews could also be excessively painful because you know that one single wrong answer, caused by his irrational sensations of anxiety, would cause him his failure. He knows that he'll spoil his chance to get the right job or to ask for a date, the minute he opens his mouth to speak. He knows that he would simply fail. The more he thinks about it, the more he becomes convinced that he is a "total loser". He practices utter negativism.

Social Anxiety - Talk About Ruminating On Embarrassement

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. Social anxiety or social phobia emanates fear of rejection, of making a fool of oneself in front of everybody else and in general, a feeling of doom about one's social behaviors and how others would perceive the person.

Anxiety Symptoms

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. Anxiety symptoms could be quite frightening, sometimes even very delimiting. It ranges from very light uneasiness with tinges of nervousness to severely unpleasant symptoms that are very intrusive in normal daily affairs.

Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. Anxiety is a common experience for all people. Some handles it smoothly while others could be immersed into it, knowing that they are heading for a long, dark alley with no point of return.

Anxiety Depression

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. It is easy to feel anxious when someone is already distressed. However, both have their own meanings that could alter one's perception on his actual state. So before you go thinking that you have symptoms of anxiety disorder, we suggest that you check first on some information that will enlighten you on how psychologically healthy you are.

Anxiety Attacks And Their Solutions

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. The normal reaction of the human body to stress is anxiety, sometimes even panic. However, this is only a productive mechanism to a certain ideal amount. It can help a person cope with certain circumstance with utmost efficiency and it could help someone adjust to certain experiences. However, once anxiety goes beyond the limit of normalcy, then it is possible that the body is already experiencing signs of abnormal anxiety levels which often result to anxiety attacks.

Anxiety Attack

Anxiety can be controlled with the proper help. What characterizes anxiety is the maladaptive fear that occurs during anxiety attacks. You might have read somewhere that anxiety is man's basic response to various stress-provoking experiences that are directly connected with the fight-or-flight response. This mechanism usually saves man's continuity since the early evolution.

Introducing Dreams - An Owner's Guide

What are dreams? When do we dream? Who dreams? How important are dreams? These are just some of the questions considered in this introductory article on dreams.

James W. Sire's "The Universe Next Door" - A Commentary

Nihilists see themselves as machines capable of any act, any choice, because not only is there no God, no faith, but there are unlimited choices, all of them good, because after all I'm a machine, and machines can turn off and on and do anything they want at any given time. I wonder what an example of a modern day Nihilist would be? According to Sire, we'll find a lot of them in mental wards.

Dreams and Your Mood

Dreams play a major role in our life and it is therefore not surprising that dreams can affect mood. Fortunately, dreaming can actually improve your mood. Also, the mood you are in when you go to sleep can affect the dreams you have.

Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology

This article will discuss research and evidence in support of a unitary memory store and in support of a dichotomous approach. A unitary store implies that a single system for short-term and long-term memory exists and that they occur along a continuum.

Fundamentals Of Abnormal Psychology - Obedience Across Cultures And Generations

Although cultures have different views on obedience and how to react to requests and orders made by legitimate authorities, evidence is inconclusive that cross-cultural differences exist. Shanab and Yahya's study shows that not all collectivist cultures are more obedient to authority than individualist cultures.

The End of Terror and Violence

The existence of two independent consciences in our psychic sphere; in other words, the division of our conscience into two totally different and independent parts is a discovery made through the research of the unknown content of the psychic sphere using dream interpretation, which explains many unexplained phenomena.

Horse Sense

Two interesting chapters in the ongoing saga of animal communication. Clever Hans and Washoe are names that are still remembered fondly by supporters and skeptics alike.

Dream Journaling Provides A Record Of Your Growth, Your Progress And Your Future

By recording our dreams, we are able to access the vast well of information contained within our unconscious. This information shows us where we are at the present moment, what we are really focused on, what issues we need to deal with, how we're doing, and most importantly, where we're heading. Neglecting to record our dreams deprives us of the greatest tool for self-imporvement and preparation for the future.

The Benefits of Time Line Therapy

A brief overview of Time Line Therapy and how it can help a person release negative emotions attached to past experiences so that they can live a happier more fulfilled life.

Depression and Grief - The Four Letter Word Called Hope

Pastor's Wife, survivor of suicidal depression, and over-comer of complicated bereavement explains how faulty religious thinking can make healing after loss more difficult. Help hurting clients regain their optimism, inspire hope without fear, and do so without offending those patients who maintain their Christian beliefs.

Stereotyping the Over Achiever Can Be a Huge Task in Itself

We find in human civilizations that no one likes to be stereotyped, each individual would like to be considered an individual that is meaningful and worthy. Still the individuals do self classify themselves based on their ideals and nurturing. Thus, some stereotyping is brought on by the individual's behavior, attitude and purposeful presentation. So, let me give you an example of problems with stereotyping and lets talk about me, since I know me and can use me as an example to explain this to you.