What does it take to haul yourself off the sofa and become motivated on a workout regime? In all areas of life, to be well inspired we will need to feel autonomous and find our own inner rewards. We hear from a renowned motivational psychologist and a fitness expert about what functions.
No one can make you feel inferior with no your approval Are you affected by low self-esteem or inferiority difficult? I will reveal some self-help tips about how you can conquer that will acquire your self-assurance. Chances are you’ll have inferiority intricate mainly because the individual believes that there is a ought to impress people,…
A 33-year-old man living in the Czech Republic was recently mauled to death by a lion that he kept in captivity. Reports indicated that Michal Prasek was a poor caretaker for the lion and other large animals living on his property. Prasek’s behavior was so bad that the local community took note and spoke out against his activities in the past. The Zdechov resident was previously formally charged and fined for illegal breeding, but investigators were unable to find sufficient evidence needed to remove the animals from his care.
“Today’s incident will perhaps finally help to resolve this long-term problem,” said Zdechov mayor Tomas Kocourek.
While Prasek’s body was eventually found by his father, the exact details of his death remain unclear. His father says that the body was found inside the lion’s cage, which was locked from inside, implying that Prasek had locked himself in before potentially provoking the lion to lash out.
Sadly, police shot and killed the animal after arriving on the scene. A lioness in a separate cage was also killed.
According to the BBC, a police spokesperson told local media that the shootings were “absolutely necessary” for them to reach Prasek’s body. Local news website Novinky.cz, has reported that the lioness was pregnant.
Prasek reportedly purchased the lion in 2016 and acquired the lioness last year. Shortly after bringing her into his home, the lioness was hit by a bicyclist while Prasek was walking her on a leash in his neighborhood. That story made headlines, but police deemed the incident a simple traffic accident and neglected to investigate further.
Lions and tigers have become extremely popular pets for the twisted and the wealthy. In fact, there are currently more tigers in captivity in private backyards than there are in the wild.
According to WorldWildLife:
“One of the world’s largest populations of tigers exists not in the wild—but in captivity in the United States. With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger population exceeds the approximately 3,200 tigers in the wild.”
Owning an exotic cat is unregulated or considered legal in eight U.S. states: North Carolina, Alabama, Delaware, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Private ownership of animals isn’t always a bad thing—some conservationists buy large plots of land to allow animals to roam freely in a safe environment. Some animal refuges employ mercenaries to hunt down poachers and protect the animal’s habitat. However, many private owners of large cats in the U.S. do not treat their animals properly and are simply using the animals as a status symbol to flaunt their wealth, power and strength.
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I would be interested in what the Vedic or Eastern position is with regard to our modern western society’s “midlife crisis” or “midlife transition?”
Embarrassment, guilt, or remorse are difficult emotions and most of us avoid. These excruciating shameful feelings are often masked by addiction, self-loathing or narcissism, but shame can also help uphold societal values, and even help build our self-esteem
The Vietnam War veteran had enlisted when he was young, serving two combat tours and surviving multiple firefights. “To this day,” said psychologist Jack Tsai of the Yale School of Medicine, “his war memories are triggered by certain smells that remind him of Vietnam”: overgrown vegetation, the acrid stench of burning, or even sweat—like that which ran in rivulets down the faces of men fighting for their lives in the sweltering jungles—brought it all back. It was classic post-traumatic stress.
As Tsai was treating him (successfully) for PTSD, however, something unexpected emerged. The vet still described his Vietnam experiences as horrific, but he said the painful memories remind him of who he is. His experience typifies research psychologists’ new understanding of trauma: When people are least resilient—in the sense that they are knocked for a loop, do not bounce back quickly or at all, and suffer emotionally for months, if not years—they can eventually emerge from trauma stronger, more appreciative of life, more sympathetic to the suffering of others, and with different (arguably more enlightened) values and priorities.
By no stretch of the imagination would the vet be called resilient in the sense that research psychologists use the term: an ability to go on with life, essentially unchanged mentally and emotionally, in the wake of profound adversity. To the contrary, environmental triggers returned the vet’s troubled mind to the horrors of land mines and ambushes and friends blown apart. At the same time, the vet’s military experience (and his triumph over PTSD) makes him feel that he can accomplish anything. “Nothing bothers him too much, because everything pales in comparison to Vietnam,” said Tsai.
For many, post-traumatic growth brings closer relationships—as family and other loved ones are more cherished—and a stronger sense of connection to other sufferers.
This effect, post-traumatic growth, was so named in 1996 by psychologists Lawrence Calhoun and Richard Tedeschi of the University of North Carolina. It can take many forms, but all involve positive psychological changes: a greater sense of personal strength (“if I survived that, I can survive anything”), deeper spiritual awareness, greater appreciation of life, and recognition of previously unseen pathways and possibilities for one’s life. For many, post-traumatic growth brings closer relationships—as family and other loved ones are more cherished—and a stronger sense of connection to other sufferers.
The concept that from great suffering can come great wisdom is both ancient and familiar. An oncologist friend of mine talks about patients who say cancer was one of the best things that ever happened to them, cutting through life’s usual trivia and making them value the truly important. President Jimmy Carter’s Chief of Staff, Hamilton Jordan (1944–2008), said his battle with cancer made him see that “the simple joys of life are everywhere and are boundless.”
After a car crash in which my childhood friend Joyce lost her right leg at age 20, her months-long recovery and rehab left her with hours upon empty hours to think. “Stuff that used to be a big deal, like being popular, just isn’t anymore,” I remember her saying. “I care about making a difference [she became a schoolteacher], and I think I’m more empathetic. I feel that when someone is suffering I understand in my bones what she’s experiencing. Before, it was just, oh, poor her.” However, post-traumatic growth does not mean traumas are desirable, let alone that they should be downplayed when they befall others. As bestselling author Rabbi Harold Kushner said about the spiritual growth he experienced after the death of his 14-year-old son, “I would give up all of those gains in a second if I could have him back.”
Few lives are without suffering, crisis, and traumas, from extreme or rare ones, such as becoming a war refugee or being taken hostage, to common ones, such as bereavement, accidents, house fires, combat, or your own or a loved one’s serious or chronic illness. For years, psychology has assumed that the best inoculation against post-traumatic stress—as well as responses to trauma that fall well short of mental disorder—is resilience, the ability to pick up one’s life where it was before the trauma. Now that psychology has made post-traumatic growth a focus of research, what is emerging is a new understanding of the complicated relationship between trauma, resilience, PTSD, and post-traumatic growth.
Although the psychological concept of resilience dates back to the 1970s, scientists are still struggling to understand its origins. Some studies find it’s fostered in childhood by a strong relationship with a parent or other adult, and the belief that your fate is in your own hands (a sense of agency). But the opposite belief, that “God is in control and everything happens for a reason,” may contribute to resilience, too, said UNC’s Calhoun. A 2016 review of people who survived atrocities and war in nine countries from South Sudan and Uganda to Bosnia and Burundi found that resilience varied by culture. Strong emotional connections to others fostered resilience among survivors in some societies but not others, and a sense of agency actually backfired among some: If you believe your fate is in your hands and then see your family cut down by a sniper in Sarajevo, you feel not only grief but also crushing guilt.
In the absence of resilience, post-traumatic growth—a very different response to trauma—might emerge instead. “Post-traumatic growth means you’ve been broken—but you put yourself back together” in a stronger, more meaningful way, Tsai said. This may come as a surprise to those who think of resilience as the ability to learn, change, and gain strength in the face of adversity. Among research psychologists, however, resilience is about bouncing back with relative ease to where you were before, not necessarily bouncing forward to a stronger place. By this understanding, without the breaking, there cannot be putting back together, so people with strong coping capacities will be less challenged by trauma and therefore less likely to experience post-traumatic growth.
In the absence of resilience, post-traumatic growth—a very different response to trauma—might emerge instead.
For post-traumatic growth to occur, the breaking need not be so extreme as to constitute PTSD, as was the case for the Vietnam War vet. Tsai and his colleagues found that among the 1,057 US military veterans they studied, the average number of lifetime traumas (such as bereavement, natural disaster, illness, and accidents, as well as military traumas) was 5.7. Only 1 in 10 had PTSD, yet 59% of the vets had experienced post-traumatic growth. And the strongest predictor of whether someone would avoid PTSD after additional trauma was whether they had experienced post-traumatic growth after an earlier one, Tsai and his colleagues reported in the Journal of Affective Disorders. It was the first study to examine whether previous post-traumatic growth can protect against PTSD if trauma strikes again. The findings suggest post-traumatic growth might in fact boost resilience.
Post-traumatic growth—unlike resilience—is not a return to baseline. It is the product of reassembling your “general set of beliefs about the world/universe and your place in it,” said Calhoun: You question the benevolence, predictability, and controllability of the world, your sense of self, the path you expected life to follow. From the shards of previous beliefs, you create wholly new worldviews, and can perhaps emerge a stronger person than you were before.
Among psychiatrists, what constitutes “trauma” is controversial. Some define trauma based on the nature of the event: Psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, for instance, says a traumatic experience must be outside the range of what humans normally encounter. Others define trauma based on how people respond to an experience: Intense fear, helplessness, horror, or distress would be symptoms of trauma.
A circular definition —“trauma is something that leaves you traumatized”—is obviously not ideal. Nor is “outside the range of normal experience” a reliable measure: Tragically, many experiences that once were outside that range no longer are, such as natural disasters, mass shootings, or wartime horrors.
Scholars are therefore trying to do better. An emerging definition holds that trauma challenges a person’s “assumptive world”: her belief in how people behave, how the world works, and how her life would unfold. By this understanding, trauma needn’t threaten life or health, nor cause post-traumatic stress disorder. But it must make you question your bedrock assumptions, such as that the world is fair, that terrible things do not befall good people, that there are limits to humans’ capacity for inhumanity, that things will always work out, or that the old die before the young. By that definition, few of us make it through this life without experiencing trauma.
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How will you know when your intended desire has been asked of the universe? What should you do while waiting for your desires to manifest? I am having trouble letting go, I feel like there has to be something for me to do in the meantime.
After the birth of her first child Nicola Redhouse experienced unrelenting post-natal anxiety. She’d grown up in a household steeped in psychoanalytic thought and had expected to gain insight from the Freudian concept of the unconscious mind. Instead she went on to discover neuropsychoanalysis—a field which investigates where the brain ends and the mind begins.
Lots of people have problems with delay. It retains them from existing satisfied life and getting to their total probable. There are lots of concepts at the rear of what makes persons delay doing things and the way to stop, but handful of hit the toenail around the go and present the point, that is:…
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Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I just did a guest post on PaleOMG, so read it maybe? That’s right, I made these here Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches for you. Yep, your eyes doth not deceive. And I didn’t even eat the whole batch, are you super proud of me or what? Luckily they melted into big globs of sticky goo when I was photographing them and I wasn’t tempted in the slightest. Winning.
It’s hard being a food blogger and not stuffing your face with every delicious morsel that you make. The Inside Out Peanut Butter Cups that I made last week were so hard, so very very hard to resist. That’s were the freezer and the garage come in handy. If I have an open bag of chocolate chips left over from a project, I hide them in the garage. The reason being that it’s way too far for me to walk if I’m having a chocolate craving. I’m lazy and I’m going to use that to my advantage. I’m also impatient. When you freeze something, you have to let it thaw before you can eat it, and that takes time. I usually won’t sit around and wait. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Problem solved.
So what have you been up to? I went to Lake Havasu last weekend for my friends birthday. It was a total ishshow. I say “ish” a lot because some people don’t like reading swear words. I get it. We’re accepting of that here at Clean Eating with a Dirty Mind. If you do like reading swear words, sorry, the other people win. It’s like if you’re a smoker you have basically walk a mile away to smoke. Or if you are left-handed, but everything is made for right-handed people. It just is what it is.
Anyway back to the ishshow that was Havasu. So I went for my good friend Liz’s birthday because she asked me to. And I really like being on boats and floating on rafts or inner tubes all day. It’s super relaxing to sit there with a drink in hand and the water is so great at keeping you cool. The best part is you can just pee whenever or wherever you want. No bathroom needed, no TP, no readjusting your outfit post-flush. No washing your hands. It makes me wish I had to swim everywhere just so I could pee whenever. It’s so nice. For some reason I hate having to go to the bathroom, it totally irritates me. It’s like, didn’t I JUST go like an hour ago, now I have to stop what I’m doing, and go again and I don’t want to!
So Havasu is about a 5 hour drive from San Diego, which is pretty long. I tend to eat a lot on road trips, mainly because I’m super board and eating is fun and passes the time by. This isn’t good when you need to be in a bathing suit all weekend. So I tried to not eat the whole time, but…I did. Oops, I did it again. So I was sharing a room with two girlfriends and a couple. The rest of our party were staying in separate rooms. There were 12 of us in total which should have been the first red flag. Trying to keep 12 people on the same page, in the heat, when alcohol is involved, is virtually impossible. I feel like I should have realized this sooner. But I didn’t.
So the first night we got there was a lot of fun, we had some drinks by the resort pool and then went as a group to a teppanyaki style dinner. The dinner was good, but way overpriced. The next day we got up and cooked some bacon and eggs for breakfast. Then our room smelled like bacon for the remainder of the trip. In fact if someone walked into that room right now, it would still probably smell like bacon. After breakfast we headed out for some fun on the lake! I jet skied (SO FUN!), tried to wake-board (still can’t get up), and got to drink while floating in my tube all day.
It was fabulous. Then it all went to hell.
So why was the trip a total ishshow? Well I could write it all out. None of these people read my blog so I could totally give you all the gory details. Or I could just sum it up by saying, 21 year old college kids in Havasu on Spring Break probably act more mature and together than my friends do. SMH. There were couples screaming at each other and fighting all over the place, chicks freaking out left and right, leg injuries from people jumping off rocks, a broken jet ski which we returned and conveniently forgot to mention that there was anything wrong with it (not my doing), a crashed boat, puke sprayed all over the hotel bathroom walls, along with a clogged toilet…it wasn’t pretty people. I hid with my friend Rhonda in the hotel bedroom, watching HGTV the whole time, just waiting for the crazy to be over, like a storm.
So yeah, that was Havasu. I had to pay money for that trip too. Haha. We’ll laugh about it in a few months…I think. So I really feel like the whole moral of this story is to make these Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches because they are delicious and they will be better friends to you than drunk people. It’s true.
This cookie recipe is also really good. You’ll have some leftover cookies too, so now you have an ice cream sandwich recipe AND a chocolate chip cookie recipe! Score. I’m in actual love with ice cream sandwiches. In my cookbook I think I have like 5 different ice cream sandwich recipes, Double Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches, Snickerdoodle Ice Cream Sandwiches, Cookie Dough Ice Cream Sandwiches, Almond Butter and Jelly Ice Cream Sandwiches, and Pumpkin Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwiches for the Holidays. Yes, even the Holidays need their own ice cream sandwich. So head on over to PaleOMG.com to get the recipe and the next time your friends want to go to Lake Havasu, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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