concept of "open loops" reducing cognitive capacity
Request: Is it true that this diminished our capacity for attention to other things, or is it merely a matter of attachment to the undone tasks & the feeling of being in control?
Psychology
flying dreams
Often interpreted as symbolic of freedom, liberation, or empowerment.
Autism Breakthrough, by Raun K. Kaufman
"The Groundbreaking Method That Has Helped Families All Over the World." Request: Do we find answers which help us to understand the functionality and needs of people in ASD ?
"No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell"
Attributed to Carl Jung, referring to shadow integration.
left brain, right brain
"The right brain in right-handed people (the left brain in left-handed people) becomes dominant above consciousness level 200" - Truth vs. Falsehood (p. 93).
being stuck in a memory
Request: Inhibits one from being in the moment.
anorexia nervosa
Request: Seems like many people in general, [especially] women, struggle with this, so I'm wondering what the attractor field is. Thank you!
Internal Family Systems therapy
"We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole."
superiority complex
Request: a defense mechanism that develops over time to help a person cope with feelings of inferiority. The term was coined by Alfred Adler (1870–1937) in the early 1900s, as part of his school of individual psychology -- wikipedia.
the foundation of relationship
Priority request.
suicide, suicidal ideation
Self-destructive patterns.
statement: if a thought is important, it'll persist
Request: Sometimes when I'm meditating, I'll have a thought or idea that I really want to remember/write-down. Recently, I've just been letting them go, on the basis of the prompt. Sometimes I'll forget things that seem really important at the time. Is there any Truth to the persistence idea?
false humility
"In a society that glamorizes humility, the enactment of humility becomes more important than a true embodiment of it" -- psychologytoday.
let it be easy (attitude)
Sometimes we get "locked into" an attitude or mental posture that makes / believes things harder than they have to be. We can snap out of that with this decision.
Paradoxical Intention
Request: a therapeutic technique developed by Viktor Frankl that involves encouraging clients to intentionally do or wish for the things they fear. It's based on the idea that by explicitly engaging with or desiring the feared behavior, anxiety and the undesired outcome can be reduced.