seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses
Request: to see only the pleasant things about a situation and not notice the things that are unpleasant.
Psychology
Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited, by Sam Vaknin
Request: Tips and advice as well as the most complete clinical background.
William James
Request: was an American philosopher, psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States - wikipedia. In Great Books of the Western World (TvF) his works are calibrated at 490.
T/F: a calm resolution is always possible
With the high capability of 500, a calm resolution is always possible. The level of Love has formidable patience.
sleep paralysis
Priority request: Most people will have an episode of sleep paralysis at least once in their lifetimes... Sleep paralysis is very scary and it can feel like someone is holding you down or you feel as if something evil is watching you and you cannot move.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
"combines the enormous power of eye movements to allow voluntary changes in the client’s mind with well-established therapies like Gestalt, Psychodynamic Therapy and Guided Imagery"
Re-evaluation counseling (modality)
Participants listen to one another in turn and help one other to "discharge" the "hurts" from past experiences. RC theorizes that discharge, which is indicated by processes including crying, laughing, shaking and yawning, will heal a person from emotional trauma -- wikipedia.
level: one considers thoughts to be one's own
By request. How pervasive in consciousness is claiming ownership of thought? See the calibrated range.
statement: a bully only understands force
"bullies are control junkies who only back down if they perceive the other person as being stronger than they are" -- goodtherapy.org
parasocial relationship
Priority request. "A unidirectional, imaginary relationship between a media user and a media personality. Fans imagine they have a close connection to the personality even though the personality has never met them" -- helpfulprofessor.com
Mandela effect
a phenomenon where a large segment of the population misremembers a significant event or shares a memory of an event that did not actually occur -- techtarget.com
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.com
depression results from energy suppression in the thymus and heart
Request: It seems to me that depression seems to be lack of love for others and/or self. Then I came across this statement in a paper today...
Queen Bee syndrome
These women often take on “masculine” traits and distance themselves from other women in the workplace in order to succeed. They may also view or treat subordinates more critically if they are female, and refuse to help other women rise up the ranks as a form of self-preservation -- wikipedia.