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What Happens When You Disagree?
What happens to you when you experience disagreement? Are you able to come to a mutually satisfying agreement or, at least, agree to disagree?n This article is for those who experience discomfort or lack of satisfaction in disagreements. For those who: tend to think blaming, defensive, judging, guilty, or hopeless thoughts; feel physical tightness or discomfort or whose breath stops or becomes shallow; tend to be angry, fearful, anxious, or sad; and who tend to use words like
August 10, 2008
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Judgment Vs Learning As A Response To Problems
How do you respond when there is a gap between what you expect, want, or need and how things actually are? Do you feel distress? Within that distress do you experience judgment, blame, guilt, or shame? For others or for yourself?nnIf you do, you may be approaching problems from the point of view that a problem means something is wrong and somebody is at fault. That somebody is blameworthy, bad, should feel guilty and must be punished in order to make things right. Mistakes sh
August 10, 2008
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To Stress Or Not To Stress
Stress, or how we respond stress, is a leading factor in the development of high blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, migraine and tension headaches, respiratory problems, and many other medical problems, in fact, physicians estimate that between 60 and 70% of all medical problems are either caused or aggravated by stress. There's a lot of talk these days about the connection, but not much help about understanding how stress affects our bodies or what we can do about it.nTh
August 10, 2008