good news about stress

This is encouraging...I think. “The researchers found that people experiencing high levels of stress but who believed that stress was good for them had among the lowest mortality rates. Whereas highly stressed people who believed that stress was bad for their health had the highest chance of dying. Your beliefs about stress clearly affect how they impact on your health and well-being. Another study even found that the blood vessels constricted (as is seen in those with heart disease) in people who believed that stress was bad for them, but stayed open and healthy in those who believed that stress was good for them.” 

from “10 Ways to Be More Mindful at Work” By Shamash Alidina | June 8, 2016, Mindful Magazine

This explains so much about human nature and behavior.

"Such questions are central to the work of Deleuze and Guattari. Their answer conceives ideology as an effect rather than a cause; people accept ideologies against their interest and counter to their rational understanding because of something they sense or feel rather than something they think, believe, negotiate, or imagine. Deleuze and Guattari describe this sensation or feeling as affect. Ideology persists because common affections allow the ideology to seem real, natural, undeniable.” Jenkins, Eric S. "Another Punctum: Animation, Affect, and Ideology." 589 I suppose this is partly why an appeal to pathos is often so easy and successful.

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introverts unite...

Unglove yourself.

Unglove Yourself…We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.

When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.

It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable. 

      ~ Mark Nepo

Stephen Fry

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." 

Stephen Fry

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