Tag: Anxiety
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Emotions are an Important Part of Decision Making

Phineas Gage was a railroad construction foreman in Vermont in 1848. He was using a 13 lb iron bar to tamp down blasting powder (rookie mistake) and created a spark that ignited the powder and sent the rod through his frontal lobe with force and velocity. He survived but things changed and not in a…
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Not Feeling the Flow with Meditation?

Look at you… Sitting there mindfully. You’re ALL over the place. Ugh! Finally remembering all the things you forgot. Not sure if you’re doing it right… Shouldn’t you be focusing right now? So you try guided meditation. But you find it goes painfully slow… That’s right. Because it’s not your meditation. It’s someone else’s meditation,…
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Anxiety, Mindfulness & Hypnosis

How does using mindfulness to sit with difficult emotions compare with hypnosis? Here’s my painful 6 month experience… I used to wake up every day feeling a LOT of anxiety… Every day for over a decade. I would jump out of bed to try to escape the feeling. I wasn’t sure where it was coming…