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The Meaning of Meaning in Emotional Self-Management

As a creature more animal than plant you are a biological meaning machine and you are reading this to see if it gives you any additional beneficial meanings to add to the meanings you already contain. What is ‘Meaning’? Meaning is about sense of direction.  When we look for the meaning of a thing we [...]

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Emotional Disorders – What Controls Your Conscious Point of Focus?

Scientists tell us the Prefrontal Cortex, a relatively small area of the brain just behind your forehead, performs your ‘executive functions’ – planning and controlling what you do with your brain and body.  It carries out these plans by directing your ‘Conscious Point of Focus’ to open up to certain sources of stimulation. Your Focus [...]

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Obsessions – Five Questions Answered

What is an Obsession? What Drives an Obsession? Why is an Obsession so Difficult to Remove? How Can I Remove an Obsession? How Should I Prepare Myself for Removing an Obsession? What is an Obsession? An obsession is a secondary emotional response designed to try and remove or hold back the sensations produced by an [...]

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Obsessions and Phobias – How We Can Lose Direct Control of Our Emotional Process

You have total control of your emotional process up to the point you start trying to take total control of your emotional process. You may want to read that again. This paradox is difficult to see by the tired mind of someone who’s been at war with their own emotional system for a prolonged period [...]

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The Thalamus – a Brain Part that Can Make Liars of Us All

Do you get angry when you’d rather not?  Have you tried ‘shouting an obsession or phobia out?’ – you know, that old trick about going ‘STOP!’ and that’s supposed to interrupt the response before it happens (but it still happens). Are you frustrated you have emotional responses before you can consciously control them?  Do you [...]

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