Category: Emotion
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Mental health goals yield critical self empowerment
Adding a bucket of water to a river. During the earlier years of my foray into therapy, I would occasionally come into my session and claim that the week had been relatively sound. “I feel like this is going to be a waste because I don’t have anything that I’m actively concerned with,” I would…
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Intrapersonal Goals: What is Intrapersonal Communication?
Care is a fickle love; dolling it out to others as drizzled honey over slices of toast yet stickying your hands in the process. Take a sharpie and dash a line on the back of your hand if these statements apply to you: I find it easy to care for others; I derive pleasure from…
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Perception and Critical Thinking: How Attention Affects Intention
In today’s world, we are often tasked with processing debilitating levels of information at nearly all times. To meet this need, oftentimes the first sacrifice is our emotional investment in the activities around us: if we tried to keep up, pathetically, with emotional investment of all that happens, we would exhaust ourselves before breaching even…
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The Emotional Growth of Oneself: Vital Processes for Aging and Improving
An anxious response that some folk have is the urge to scratch oneself, and I often go through this response as well. The tart red lines of my fingers across my chest, shoulders, and neck provide annals of my worries. I’ve always done this, or at least for as long as I can remember noting…
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Meta Communication: Discussing How to Discuss and Improving Your Clarity
Nothing humbles me more consistently than the amount of struggle I maintain with the simple act of expression. Communication is among the most difficult of virtues to come to terms with, and further yet meta communication. Each day, each relationship, and each environment requires attunement to a new way of communicating. Take, for example, the…
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The Differences of Fear Vs Anxiety: A Discussion and Expansion
Any given segment of time will provide opportunity for fears and anxieties; however, one does not tend to operate all of the time within the boundaries of understood reactions to fear or anxiety. There is a divide between the understanding and intake of fear or anxious stimulation, and the reaction to such. This space between…
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Communication Strengths and Weaknesses to Improve Your Daily Relationships
Be courageous when reason fails you be courageousin the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts. Zbigniew Herbert Who hasn’t wished they could communicate themselves more clearly? Whether shyness, anxiety, lack of vocabulary or language, lack of knowledge, lack of confidence… there are hundreds of influences that may impede one’s ability to communicate.…
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Associative Behaviors: Processing a More Engaged Environment
Growing up in Farmington, learning moments often got thrust upon me in unconventional and difficult-to-immediately-resolve situations. For instance, at a friend’s birthday party when I was 8 or 9, his father took us for a ride in a large offroader through some fields full of cat grass, cottontail, and old corn stalks. The rare beauty…
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The Development of a Self is a Concept for Progress and Awareness
The self is an ever-expanding, ever-evolving function. While we first begin developing it immensely early (the mirror stage happening as early as 6 months old), it can take entire lifetimes for someone to come to terms with any type of dialogue with their self. This makes the development of a self to be a particularly…
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Understanding Behavioral and Emotional Strengths for Satisfaction
Looking at yourself, it can be difficult to have the mindfulness to consider what types of situations your parsing is especially effective for. I think often about how mismatched strengths are causes of strife – I am an excellent organizer; however, pair me with another organizer and we are bound to be sluggishly incompetent as…