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).
Psychology
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.
exposure therapy
Technique in behavior therapy to treat anxiety disorders. Exposure therapy involves exposing the target patient to the anxiety source or its context without the intention to cause any danger -- wikipedia.
statement: fear of life is fear of emotions
Request: Therefore we don't need to handle life, we just need to handle our emotions towards life.
"hurt people hurt people"
Request: Meaning people who hurt others are themselves hurting. I heard someone say it on a podcast, and they said it helps them forgive anyone who has wronged them.
conscience
"an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior" -- Google dictionary.