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points of interest, vol 2, #3
February 9, 2009 in Brain, Depression, ethics, healthcare, LDS, Medicine, Mental Illness, mind, Mormon, Neurology, psychology, Science, Spirituality, technology | Tags: anesthesia, blog carnivals, buddhism, burn victims, children, clotting factors, Colbert, courage, death, dentistry, development, doubt, dying, emotionality, endowment, evolution, faith, fossil, genetic engineering, goats, happiness, intelligent design, life, memory, milk, miracles, money, morality, neurons, numbness, physicians, play, RAM, rationality, recession, snakes, suffering, tragedy, trauma, virtual reality | 1 comment
And we’re back. It is time once again for my semi-regular offering of the choicest gems I found scouring the internet for all things mind, soul, and body. Today I have virtual reality, depression, doctors, some crucial playing around, the endowment of power, medicinal goats milk, courage, one ton snakes, how one can actually buy happiness, and child brought into an alternate reality by his neighborhood dentist, to name just a very few. So dig in and enjoy the very best of the internets- Read the rest of this entry »
From the Archives: Fearing Fear Itself
December 30, 2008 in Generalized anxiety, LDS, Medicine, Mental Illness, mind, Mormon, psychology, social phobia, Spirituality | Tags: agoraphobia, anxiety, bigotry, conflict, courage, emotion, faith, fear, hate, hope, humanity, irrationality, love, mankind, prejudice, reason, religion, scripture, violence, worry | 1 comment
First Published on March 10, 2008
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1512
Fear is a very primitive emotion, setting off a chain reaction of events that pumps our blood full of adrenaline, raises our heartbeat, tenses our muscles, expends our energy, and quickens our thoughts. This is the essence of the so called “fight or flight mode.” It is very necessary for our physical survival that we recognize danger and react to it. Its result is a complete shutting off of higher centers in the brain, in order to focus all our faculties on a threat.
While fear is good for survival, the behavior that results has lead to some of the ugliest, most savage, animalistic atrocities that our race is capable of. Read the rest of this entry »
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