She was having second thoughts on whether or not to take the flight to Chicago. She always fears flying, even the thought of it. She can’t seem to dismiss some crazy thought that something bad will happen the minute the plane takes off. She took it anyway. As the plane was gearing to take off, Anne suddenly turned frantic, was out of breath, and dizzy. She was clearly overwrought. She was having a panic attack. But for [...]

Three groups of dogs were involved, all of them in harnesses, Group One being in the harnesses for a short period and later released. For dogs in Group Two, pressing on a lever could stop the electric shock administered to them, but dogs in Group Three had no control over the duration of the shock. [...]

Usually the children who are good at something and talented are lauded and feted by society; there’s no room for the also-rans and the jack-of-all-trades in a world where you have to excel academically, have a flair for the arts, sing like a bird, dance like a peacock, play like a jock, and so on and so forth, to be able to say that you’re a success. This is exactly why we grow up fearing failure.

This post is concentrated with lots of Techniques try to use each of them in different scary situations. One of the most effective techniques is to ask what is the worse that can happen? Say you have a job interview that you dread. You can ask yourself what’s the worse thing that can happen if [...]

In my previous post I wrote about anxiety. In this post I want to elaborate and specify specific techniques to overcome anxiety. First of all there are basically two ways to treat anxiety: 1) with medicine. 2) other techniques. If you choose medication even if it helps in the short run, in the long run [...]

There is only one emotion. All other emotions are variations and distortions of this emotion. Just like all the colors blend to create the white color, love consists of all other emotions. Even fear which is the opposite of love in it’s highest expression is a form of love. For instance when a mother is [...]