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Addressing the unwanted three: Anxiety, fear and Shame and perhaps whatever else may be stirred up within you as you imagine yourself present at such a presentation. The presentation was not video-recorded so all you have to view is the powerpoint.
The Loving Brain - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disord...Rick Hanson
Over millions of years, social abilities – such as bonding, empathy, compassion, language, and cooperative planning – really aided survival. Love, broadly defined, has profoundly shaped the evolution of the human brain.
Neuropsychological research on stress, emotions, and painful experiences; approach/avoid responses to the pleasant/unpleasant “hedonic tone” of experience; illuminating parallels in the Buddhist analysis of “dependent origination,” in which our reactions to the hedonic tone of experience lead to craving, clinging, and suffering; numerous methods for reducing or eliminating reactions to the hedonic tone, and thus gaining much greater emotional balance, and an increasingly unshakeable core of happiness.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Presented at Spirit Rock Meditation Center - December, 2011.
The biological evolution of awareness and the apparent self; what neuroscience tells us about the distributed and endlessly variable neural nature of the apparent self; the stress, suffering, and interpersonal difficulties that come from “excesses of self”; the importance of healthy self-compassion and self-advocacy; how to heal injuries to self-worth; methods for taking things less personally, relaxing possessiveness, and feeling more at one with all things.
Addressing the unwanted three: Anxiety, fear and Shame and perhaps whatever else may be stirred up within you as you imagine yourself present at such a presentation. The presentation was not video-recorded so all you have to view is the powerpoint.
The Loving Brain - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disord...Rick Hanson
Over millions of years, social abilities – such as bonding, empathy, compassion, language, and cooperative planning – really aided survival. Love, broadly defined, has profoundly shaped the evolution of the human brain.
Neuropsychological research on stress, emotions, and painful experiences; approach/avoid responses to the pleasant/unpleasant “hedonic tone” of experience; illuminating parallels in the Buddhist analysis of “dependent origination,” in which our reactions to the hedonic tone of experience lead to craving, clinging, and suffering; numerous methods for reducing or eliminating reactions to the hedonic tone, and thus gaining much greater emotional balance, and an increasingly unshakeable core of happiness.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Presented at Spirit Rock Meditation Center - December, 2011.
The biological evolution of awareness and the apparent self; what neuroscience tells us about the distributed and endlessly variable neural nature of the apparent self; the stress, suffering, and interpersonal difficulties that come from “excesses of self”; the importance of healthy self-compassion and self-advocacy; how to heal injuries to self-worth; methods for taking things less personally, relaxing possessiveness, and feeling more at one with all things.
Everyone Loves ? Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles...AmosSala
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habitsWe are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But in this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone.We think of anxiety as everything from mild unease to full-blown panic. But it's also what drives the addictive behaviors and bad habits we use to cope (e.g. stress eating, procrastination, doom scrolling and social media). Plus, anxiety lives in a part of the brain that resists rational thought. So we get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we can't think our way out of or use willpower to overcome. Dr. Brewer teaches us map our brains to discover our .
Steadying the Mind - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Diso...Rick Hanson
To stay alive in the wild, our ancestors evolved highly distractible attentional systems – which pose real challenges to developing greater mindfulness today. This presentation covers how attention works in your brain, and the implications of normal neurological diversity for the “turtles” and “jackrabbits” at either end of the spectrum.
Introduction to the neuroscience of mindfulness and meditation; brain-wise methods for steadying the mind, quieting it, bringing it to singleness, and concentrating it; an exploration of what could be happening in the brain during the non-ordinary states of consciousness
Managing the Caveman Brain in the 21st CenturyRick Hanson
The human brain evolved in three stages: reptile, mammal, and primate. Each stage has a core motivation: avoid harm, approach reward, and attach to "us." Modern life challenges these ancient neural systems with bombardments of threat messages, the endless stimulation of desire, and social disconnections and tensions of industrial, multicultural societies. This talk will explore brain-savvy ways to cultivate mindfulness in young people, and then use that mindfulness to internalize a greater sense of strength and safety, contentment, and being loved.
Rick Hanson gave this keynote address for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Taking in the Good: Helping Children Build Inner Strength and HappinessRick Hanson
Scientists believe the brain evolved a "negativity bias" that makes it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. This helped our ancestors survive, but it's bad for children (and parents) today - leading them to overreact, hold onto hurts and resentments, and have a harder time developing inner resources. To address this challenge, this presentation will use practical neuroscience to show how to weave positive experiences into the fabric of the brain and the self - including how to pair a positive experience with a negative one to heal old pain.
Rick Hanson gave this public lecture for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Buddha's Brain: Lighting Up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love and WisdomRick Hanson
Combining the power of the latest brain science with the wisdom of contemplative practice, these are practical methods for centering your brain in its natural state of gladness, love, and peace.
Taking in the Good: Weaving Positive Emotions, Optimism and Resilience into t...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
Pairing Positive and Negative to Fill the Hole in the HeartRick Hanson
Implicit memory systems – including expectations, emotional residues and reactive patterns – are a primary target of therapy. Since they are vulnerable to change during consolidation, the skillful pairing of positive and negative material in awareness can gradually soothe and ultimately replace negative implicit memories. This workshop will explore neuro-savvy methods for doing this, including how to identify the positive material that will best "antidote" old pain or deficits in internalized resources.
Taking in the Good: Building Resilience into the Brain through Positive Exper...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
Everyone Loves ? Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles...AmosSala
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habitsWe are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But in this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone.We think of anxiety as everything from mild unease to full-blown panic. But it's also what drives the addictive behaviors and bad habits we use to cope (e.g. stress eating, procrastination, doom scrolling and social media). Plus, anxiety lives in a part of the brain that resists rational thought. So we get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we can't think our way out of or use willpower to overcome. Dr. Brewer teaches us map our brains to discover our .
Steadying the Mind - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Diso...Rick Hanson
To stay alive in the wild, our ancestors evolved highly distractible attentional systems – which pose real challenges to developing greater mindfulness today. This presentation covers how attention works in your brain, and the implications of normal neurological diversity for the “turtles” and “jackrabbits” at either end of the spectrum.
Introduction to the neuroscience of mindfulness and meditation; brain-wise methods for steadying the mind, quieting it, bringing it to singleness, and concentrating it; an exploration of what could be happening in the brain during the non-ordinary states of consciousness
Managing the Caveman Brain in the 21st CenturyRick Hanson
The human brain evolved in three stages: reptile, mammal, and primate. Each stage has a core motivation: avoid harm, approach reward, and attach to "us." Modern life challenges these ancient neural systems with bombardments of threat messages, the endless stimulation of desire, and social disconnections and tensions of industrial, multicultural societies. This talk will explore brain-savvy ways to cultivate mindfulness in young people, and then use that mindfulness to internalize a greater sense of strength and safety, contentment, and being loved.
Rick Hanson gave this keynote address for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Taking in the Good: Helping Children Build Inner Strength and HappinessRick Hanson
Scientists believe the brain evolved a "negativity bias" that makes it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. This helped our ancestors survive, but it's bad for children (and parents) today - leading them to overreact, hold onto hurts and resentments, and have a harder time developing inner resources. To address this challenge, this presentation will use practical neuroscience to show how to weave positive experiences into the fabric of the brain and the self - including how to pair a positive experience with a negative one to heal old pain.
Rick Hanson gave this public lecture for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Buddha's Brain: Lighting Up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love and WisdomRick Hanson
Combining the power of the latest brain science with the wisdom of contemplative practice, these are practical methods for centering your brain in its natural state of gladness, love, and peace.
Taking in the Good: Weaving Positive Emotions, Optimism and Resilience into t...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
Pairing Positive and Negative to Fill the Hole in the HeartRick Hanson
Implicit memory systems – including expectations, emotional residues and reactive patterns – are a primary target of therapy. Since they are vulnerable to change during consolidation, the skillful pairing of positive and negative material in awareness can gradually soothe and ultimately replace negative implicit memories. This workshop will explore neuro-savvy methods for doing this, including how to identify the positive material that will best "antidote" old pain or deficits in internalized resources.
Taking in the Good: Building Resilience into the Brain through Positive Exper...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
The Problem of Mental DIS-EASE -Subrahma's ProblemOH TEIK BIN
An excellent article by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Based on a sutta in the Devaputta-samyutta.
It addresses the problem of mental dis-ease afflicting so many people - anxiety, worry, frustration, agitation, fear and so on.
Everyone from the age of 22 to 92 has felt the effects of high stress levels in their body, so if you’re a human being, Revitaa Pro could do you some good! Never in the history of medicine has a clinically and scientifically proven formula been created quite like this.
An unexpected journey that would save her life by uncovering the "missing piece" of the weight loss puzzle for hundreds of thousands of people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s...
7 Ways Anxiety Might Be Slowly Eating Away Your Life.pdfNisa T
Anxiety: the unwelcome guest that overstays its welcome. It's the feeling of being trapped in a room with no windows, no doors, and no escape. It's the voice in your head that tells you everything will go wrong, even when things are going well. Anxiety is a rollercoaster ride that you never asked to go on, but here you are, white-knuckling through the twists and turns. But guess what? You're not alone. Millions of people ride this same rollercoaster every day. So let's hold on tight, take a deep breath, and ride it out together.
Here are 7 ways to help you get rid of anxiety.
We are multi-layered beings and what we are aware of in any moment, as we have known for a while now, is not all the information that is available to us, but only a very small chunk of it.
7 Ways Anxiety Might Be Slowly Eating Away Your Life.pdfKrista A. Davis
Introducing 7 Ways Anxiety Might Be Slowly Eating Away Your Life. Inside this eBook, you will discover the topics about it is natural to feel anxious, overthinking and obsessive thoughts, how our brains respond to anxiety, negative and unwanted thoughts, lack of self-esteem and fear of rejection, self-esteem and the fear of rejection, phobias and traumas, anxiety doesn't exist in isolation, workplace anxiety, the workplace is no exception, coping with anxiety at work, work at creating a work-life balance, social anxiety, eating disorder and so much more!
7 ways anxiety might be slowly eating away your life | Improve self esteem | ...Kumar Vikram
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Ways Anxiety Might Be Slowly Eating Away Your Life. Inside this eBook, you will discover the topics about it is natural to feel anxious, overthinking and obsessive thoughts, our brains respond to anxiety, negative and unwanted thoughts, lack of self-esteem and fear of rejection, self esteem and the fear of rejection, phobias and traumas, anxiety doesn't exist in isolation, workplace anxiety, the workplace is no exception, coping with anxiety at work, work at creating a work-life balance, social anxiety, eating disorder and so much more!
7 Ways Anxiety Might Be Slowly Eating Away Your Life.pdfHossamFathy23
It Is Natural to Feel Anxious
There’s a good chance that we’ve all experienced feelings of
anxiety in response to real or perceived threats at one time or
another. For most people, these feelings are normal as the brain
is hard-wired to caution you at times of danger, change and the
unknown.
In fact, in many situations, experiencing a certain level of anxiety
and stress can help boost your performance in specific tasks. For
instance, a person might experience a heightened level of anxiety
the days leading up to a public event and that’s a completely
normal reaction.
Psychologists believe that anxiety is your body’s natural response
to stress and that this stress triggers a system in the brain that
accentuates your performance. So, a little anxiety now and then
is okay and might be your body’s way of preparing for an
impending change
7 Ways Anxiety Might Be Slowly Eating Away Your Life.pdfPaulloPrime
There’s a good chance that we’ve all experienced feelings of anxiety in response to real or perceived threats at one time or another. For most people, these feelings are normal as the brain
is hard-wired to caution you at times of danger, change and the unknown.
In fact, in many situations, experiencing a certain level of anxiety and stress can help boost your performance in specific tasks. For instance, a person might experience a heightened level of anxiety
the days leading up to a public event and that’s a completely normal reaction.
Psychologists believe that anxiety is your body’s natural response
to stress and that this stress triggers a system in the brain that accentuates your performance. So, a little anxiety now and then is okay and might be your body’s way of preparing for an
impending change.
That Said, Not Every Anxious Feeling Is Normal
For some, these feelings can be all-consuming, impairing the
individual’s ability to enjoy life as they’d otherwise like to. For some, anxiety might treat their everyday events as life-or-death situations. It can become a disorder and that isn’t a good place to
be in. Fortunately, in most cases, there is always a way out. And one of the first steps to finding that way out is to dive into your mind and listen to what it might be trying to tell you.
It’s About Accepting Your Anxiety, Embracing and Understanding It Too
There is no shame in being anxious. And we would prefer not to have put this obvious point across (because it’s obvious and should ideally not need any re-affirmation). But sadly, because
of how this feeling can be trivialized and/or stigmatized, it’s important to let all those who experience anxiety know that they are not alone and by accepting it they’ll also be overcoming it.
This book is an attempt to throw some light on the much relevant topic. We’ve kept it short and brief because we don’t want to overload you with information but want to ease you into the expansive subject one book at a time.
In this book, we talk about 7 ways anxiety might be slowly eating
away your lives. We discuss:
1. Overthinking and obsessive thoughts
2. Lack of self-assurance and fear of judgment
3. Phobias and traumas
4. Workplace anxiety
5. Social anxiety
6. Eating disorder
7. Insomnia
On that note, we warmly welcome you to our book titled, 7 Ways Anxiety Might Be Slowly Eating Away Your Life.’ We’ve had an enriching experience putting together this meaningful book and hope you feel benefited by it.
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
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FEAR AND REASON
FEAR AND REASON
FEAR AND REASON, We have all heard the apparently separating comments that
trepidation is ordinary and irregular, and that typical apprehension is to be viewed as a
companion, while unusual trepidation ought to be annihilated as an adversary.
The truth of the matter is that no supposed ordinary apprehension can be named which
has not been plainly missing in a few individuals who have had each reason therefor. On
the off chance that you will keep running over mankind's history in your brain, or look
about in the present life, you will discover here and there persons who, in circumstances
or before situations which should, as any dreadful soul will demand, to motivate the
feeling at any least normal self-securing fear, are all things considered entirely without
the feelings. They have each feeling and thought requested with the exception of fear.
The thought of self-protection is as emphatically present as with the most wretchedly
shy or terrified, however fear they don't have the foggiest idea. This valiant familiarity
with apprehension proposing conditions might be because of a few reasons. It might
come about because of protected make-up, or from since a long time ago kept preparing
or habituation, or from religious euphoria, or from a consummately quiet feeling of
profound self-hood which is unhurt-able, or from the activity of exceptionally lifted up
reason. Whatever the clarification, the truth remains: the very causes which energize
dread in the greater part of us, only offer, with such individuals, if by any stretch of the
imagination. to the impulse of self-safeguarding and to reason, the thought-component
about the spirit which makes for individual peace and wholeness.
Exile all apprehension, It is on such considerations that I have come to hold that all
genuine feelings of fear ought to and might be banished from our life, and that what we
call "ordinary fear" ought to be substituted in our language by "intuition" or by "reason,"
the component of fear being dropped out and out.
"Everybody can affirm that the psychical state called apprehension comprises of mental
representations of certain excruciating results". The mental representations might be
extremely black out, yet the thought of hurt to self is most likely present. In the event
that, it can be significantly trusted that the genuine self can't be harmed; if the reason
can be brought to consider distinctively and vividly, all calming contemplation; if the
self can be held intentionally in the certification that the White Life encompasses the
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genuine self, and is definitely inside of that self, and will endure "no abhorrence to come
near," while every one of the senses of self protection might be splendidly dynamic,
apprehension itself must be evacuated "similarly as the east is from the west."
These are the routes, in which any event for apprehension might be isolated, panic. But
let us say that the warning should be understood as given to reason, that fear need not
appear at all, and that the panic is perfectly useless pain. With these discriminations in
mind, we may now go on to a preliminary study of fear. panic. But let us say that the
warning should be understood as given to reason, that fear need not appear at all, and
that the panic is perfectly useless pain. With these discriminations in mind, we may now
go on to a preliminary study of fear.
preparatory investigation of fear. Fear is (an) a motivation, (b) a propensity, (c) an
infection, apprehension, as it exists in man, is a pretend of rational soundness, an
creature of the creative mind, a condition of craziness. Besides, trepidation is, presently
of the nerves, now of the brain, now of the ethical consciousness.
The division relies on the perspective. What is regularly called typical trepidation ought
to offer spot to reason, utilizing the word to cover sense and thought. From the right
perspective all apprehension is a shrewd as entertained.
Whatever its appearances, wherever its clear area, fear is a psychic state, obviously,
responding upon the person in a few routes: as, in the nerves, in mental temperaments,
in a solitary motivation, in a ceaseless propensity, in a completely lopsided condition.
The response has dependably a decent goal, which means, for every situation, "Fare thee
well! Threat!" You will see this is so on the off chance that you will search for a minute at
three far reaching sorts of apprehension trepidation of self, apprehension for self, dread
for others. Apprehension of self is by implication dread for self risk. Dread for others
signifies fore sensed or fore pictured pain to self due to foreseen misfortune to others. I
regularly ponder whether, when we fear for others, it is pain to self or hurt to them that
is most unequivocally in our idea.
Apprehension, is normally viewed as the spirit's risk signal. However, the genuine sign
is instinctual and insightful reason. Indeed, even intuition and reason, going about as
notice, might perform their obligation unusually, or accept anomalous extents. And after
that we have the sentiment of fear. The ordinary cautioning is instigated by real peril
caught by psyche in a condition of parity and restraint. Ordinary personality is
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constantly able to do such cautioning. There are however two routes in which supposed
ordinary trepidation, acting in the pretense of reason, might be destroyed: by the
substitution of explanation behind apprehension, and by the assurance of the white life.
Give it a chance to be seen, now, that by typical apprehension arrives implied ordinary
reason genuine trepidation being denied place and function altogether. At that point we
might say that such activity of reason is a promoter to man. It is, with agony and
exhaustion, the generosity of the way of things inside of us.
One individual said: "Tired? No such word in my home!" Now this can't be a sound and
solid disposition. Exhaustion, at a specific phase of exertion, is a sign to stop work. At
the point when one turns out to be so invested in labor as to lose cognizance of the
sentiment exhaustion, he has issued a "rush call" on death. I don't deny that the spirit
might develop a glorious feeling of lightness and power; rather do I encourage you to
look for that excellent condition; yet I hold that when a conviction or a visualization
declines to allow you to hear the notice of nerves and muscles, Nature will work calamity
unavoidably. Give us a chance to remain for the bigger freedom which is happily allowed
to exploit everything Nature might offer for genuine prosperity. There is a halfway
freedom which tries to acknowledge itself by denying different substances as genuine;
there is a higher freedom which truly acknowledges itself by using so as to yield such
substances as genuine and or neglecting them as event might require in light of a
legitimate concern for the self taking care of business. I hold this to be genuine
knowledge: to exploit everything which clearly guarantees great to the self, without
respect to either hypothesis, and openly to utilize all things, material or irrelevant,
sensible or profound. I grasp your science or your strategy; however I ask to overlook
your subjugation to reasoning or to consistency. So I say that to typical well being the
tired sense is a rational command to recharge depleted nerves and muscles.
It is not freedom, it is not fortifying, to proclaim, "There is no agony!" Pain does exist,
whatever you affirm, and your assertion that it doesn't, is confirmation that it does exist,
for why (and how) pronounce the non-presence of that which really is non-existent? In
any case, in the event that you say, "Actually I have torment, yet I am truly endeavoring
to overlook it, and to develop thought-well being so that the reason for torment might be
evacuated," that is normal and lovely. This is the praiseworthy state of mind of the Bible
character who cried: "Master, I trust; offer thou mine unbelief." To attempt some
assistance with swamping torment with a billow of mental mist that is to turn rebel
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against the great administration of Nature. By torment Nature educates the person that
he is some place out of request. This notice is typical. The inclination gets to be irregular
in the brain when creative energy twangs the nerves with repeated bothering, and Will,
confused by the disunity and the psychic chaos, grovels and shudders with trepidation.
I don't say there is no such thing as trepidation. Trepidation exists. Be that as it may, it
exists throughout your life by your authorization, not on account of it is needful as a
notice against "evil."
Apprehension is impelled by unduly amplifying real risk, or by conjuring up imaginary
threats through intemperate and misled psychical responses. This additionally might be
taken as a sign of risk, however it is a dishonestly intentioned witness, for it is not
required, is unfriendly to the individual since it debilitates poise and it retains life's
strengths in pointless and damaging work when they should be occupied with making
values.