I need to rewrite this page. When I wrote it 17 years ago I thought there was a single aware state. I now know that there are many mental states in which we feel more conscious than we do when lost in thought. One of those states, the one recommended by Ramana Maharshi which occurs...
If you have the occasional anxious thought, there’s likely no need to be concerned about your emotional well-being or mental fitness. However, chronic worrying can be a symptom of something more serious, like an anxiety disorder. This type of worry can lead to physical symptoms like muscle ...
The unpleasant symptoms people describe as “nicotine withdrawal” are nothing of the sort; the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal triggers a thought process. It’s the result of that thought process which leads to the unpleasant physical feelings. ...
Recognizing and understanding your triggers can be vital in learning how to deal with OCD and other obsessive thought patterns in the future. 3. Accept that it’s out of your control, but manageable The next step to stopping obsessive thinking is understanding that you aren’t choosing this....
Try to come up with an alternative to what you originally thought. Rather than concluding that this will be an epic fail, try something like, “I’m doing the best I can.” 6. Write down your thoughts. Don’t keep your thoughts to yourself; write them down. Start a journal or a ‘...
You do not have to accept every thought that enters your mind. Treat your thoughts as visitors to your home. What kind of visitors you would be happy to have as your guests, depressing and unhappy ones, or positive and happy people that uplift, motivate and inspire you? This is how you...
For example, perhaps you thought you acted the way you did because of the way your partner has been speaking, but what if they think they’ve been speaking differently because of the way you’ve been acting? 5. Develop Foresight While one of us are likely to become psychic anytime soon...
That’s what I thought when I first heard the term “elegant” applied to a proof. But now I suspect it’s conceptually prior — that the main ingredient in artistic elegance is mathematical elegance. At any rate it’s a useful standard well beyond math. “数学的优雅”可能听起来只是一个...
(2)Wehad to stand there to catch theoffender. → What we had to do was (to) stand there, trying to catch the offender. 我们所能做的只是站在那儿,设法抓住违章者。 (3)If her pronunciation is not better than her ...
When we have fallen into a habit of pessimism, our brains begin to produceautomatic negative thoughts, or ANTs, via neural pathways.The more the neural pathways are impressed with certain beliefs, the more automatic they become. Take every thought captive and flip negative ones into positive affi...