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We have all been angry and most of us have spat the proverbial dummy at some stage of our lives. In many ways anger, anger outbursts have painful for all involved, for the one on the receiving end as well as strange as it may seem for the one dishing it out. Reading this you may be able to identify with many others who have lost their self-value, name, reputation, and their loved ones because of the fact that they couldn’t control their anger. On the other hand you may be one of the ones that are still healing from the scars of anger outbursts, verbal abuse, and in some cases even physical abuse.
Like others you have tried many different things in an attempt to get the raging monster’s effect on you or the monster within yourself under control often with little or no success. So often we fall back into the abusive cycle namely : The build up of frustration and anger, the outburst and the devastation that goes along with whether it is mentally or physically, the self loathing and regret....begging for forgiveness, the promises , the honeymoon phase until it all starts again.
To read the full article by
Paul Potgieter
Psychologist
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Mindful or a Mind full of.....
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Never before has society faced so many distractions and challenges that scream for our attention. Mobile phones, iPads, iPods and I-need-your-attention technology bring wonderful opportunities and a global link, but also endless temptations for minds to be constantly multi-tasking and distracted. The result is that neural pathways become scrambled and ineffective.
A Harvard study reveals that the average person spends 47% of their time “mind wandering”, doing one thing but thinking about something else. Busyness, distraction, and operating on autopilot just switch you off to life.
B. Alan Wallace, who has studied meditation and philosophy, calls this state of mind “Obsessive Compulsive Delusional Disorder” (OCDD). “Obsessive” because even when we want to be quiet, we can’t because the mind is like a chatterbox; “compulsive” because when thoughts arise, we are generally compulsively drawn into them and “delusional” because we tend to take our thoughts seriously and often as the full truth.
It is an exhausting and stressful way to live and often interferes with our ability to think clearly and sleep soundly.
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