WHAT SCARE IS Scare is a natural emotion or feeling. We feel scare when our very existence is threatened (or we think it is). It is good for us because it immediately mobilizes all our energy to deal with the threat. HOW IT WORKS Whenever we experience a threat, all...
WHAT SADNESS IS Sadness is a natural emotion or feeling. We feel sadness whenever we LOSE something that we previously enjoyed. It is good for us both because it offers RELIEF from the pain of the loss and because it gives us a MEASURE of the importance of what...
WHAT ANGER IS Anger is a natural emotion or feeling. We feel anger whenever we are BLOCKED from getting something we want. It is good for us because it protects us from threat, it reminds us that we have power to overcome obstacles, and it gives us a measure of how...
I get irritated about media hype, especially around the holidays. You’d think we are all perfectly happy people, from white-bread, socially-appropriate, “intact” families, with perfectly happy kids who are continually thrilled-to-pieces about how...
BASIC ASSUMPTION Every physically healthy person has plenty of energy, so every physically healthy person has plenty of motivation. Nobody is lazy. We are all just motivated toward different things. Calling someone lazy is like calling them any other nasty name. It...
