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It can even be cute and make you feel special to allow yourself to depend on a new partner, especially if we are normally independent, organized, and self-sufficient. It can make you feel as if you are letting go and being somewhat free, but if you are not mindful and aware, you may be dealing with a dominant and controlling personality. They will not see things that same way that you do, they are probably keeping tabs on everything they have done, and will soon be expecting something in return. This person may not be willing to turn off what they see as their control over you, because they feel it is their right to do whatever they see fit. When you decide that you have had enough of what may be a game to you, they are going to take it as a personal attack, because their ego is in full effect. This is why I say not to even get yourself caught up into allowing yourself to be taken care of unless you are aware and ready to deal with all that may come with that. Many people feel that if they take care of you, they have the right to have to say over your life, they think that they control you and will consistently tell you what to do and how to live. When one person depends on the other too much in the relationship, things are going to crash and burn, which is going to eventually destroy the love and it will become unhealthy and toxic. Power Of Choice Let's say a child is trying to learn how to ride a bike, and they just can't seem to get the concept of it. They keep falling over. This causes them to think, I can't do anything right, I'm stupid, so I shouldn't try to do new things. They latch onto that thought using their struggles with learning to ride the bike as evidence for this statement. This pattern of thought goes on because it is not stopped, making it so that when they get the thought of picking up a new hobby or activity, they talk themselves out of doing so because they do not believe they will be able to do it right. In this case, neuroplasticity has happened, but it was used in a negative way. The thoughts and actions were repetitive until they created an automatic result. Neuroplasticity can be used to work either in your favor or against you. In the example above, let's say the alternative happens- the child questions themselves because of their difficulties with the bicycle. Instead of succumbing to the part of their mind that tells them they are incompetent, they instead decide to think, So what if I'm having a hard time learning something. You put a ton of effort into something that ends up flopping.

You learn that you're the last person to find out about a shocking family secret. Some of your foundational beliefs are challenged in a way you aren't prepared for. You get caught doing something that you thought you'd get away with. You can't find a way out of an awkward social situation. Left unquestioned, each of these sparks of anxiety will dictate how we respond to the world like an invisible program: we'll misread people, we'll react incorrectly to new information, and we'll always revert to trying to forcing the world to change to meet our expectations rather than updating our expectations to better fit the world. Given how little we know and how big the world is, this is almost always a recipe for more anxiety and, ultimately, failure. AN OLD GLASS OF WATER One of the first surveys I ran when I was beginning the research that eventually led to this article (and a question I still like to ask people at parties) was about collecting a list of long-running arguments that people have gotten into over and over again. I was looking for the gnarly, twisty, recurring, never-ending arguments, the ones that people repeatedly fell into over the span of years--sometimes decades! Having intent in your life is something that, just when you think that you've mastered it, you completely forget about it. You go back to pouting and having kiddie panic attacks. The reality of losing the biggest love of my life is the hardest to accept. The rush of feelings I have at the sound of the word mom, the anxieties, the sleepless nights, the heartache of never hearing her voice again has all brought me to my knees. But my intent is not to live a happy life without my mom. I understand now that processing my grief doesn't mean that there will ever be any less emotional distress for me. It just means that it is possible, through my struggle, to come out on top. I've learned that my intent to live a happy life involves constantly figuring out how to be forever surrounded by her undying love. And I don't know if that's the right way or the wrong way, but that's how I deal with death! So I started to live with intention. In the short run, customers acted in a rational way.

In the long run, however, as the price deflation loop kept getting reinforced, and prices kept dropping, the income of companies also declined, which forced them to fire workers or go bankrupt. As more and more people got laid off, the national perception of welfare, security, and safety also declined. People feared spending, so they'd spend even less than before. Economists needed to react quickly to the deflation by persuading policy makers to bring in some changes that would jump-start spending among consumers. In the US they used rebate programs like Cash for Clunkers or the first-time home buyer tax credit as tools to help the squeaky wheels of the economy get oiled again. What should the boundaries (external and internal) of mental models be? When we talk about human mental models, they tend to have a narrow focus led by short-term incentives. But to simulate complex systems, we need to expand these boundaries. Even so, we're not great at mentally simulating multi-variable, interdependent systems with delays and multi-level feedbacks. All our behaviors, all our thoughts, words and actions that don't have love as their root, as their source, are a defense against fears, and ultimately a defense against the fear of death. Yes, we spend a lot of time in our lives in defending ourselves from fear. Here are some of typical defense behavior models that I have noticed in my life so far: - The blah blah type - consistent talking. If you say something serious, something deep, they don't listen. They pretend that they do, but as soon as you finish your sentence (or even before) they continue a never-ending story. They reveal many relative truths, they will tell you all the unnecessary details, but when you get to the subject of the absolute truth (later, I will talk more about this), it is passed over entirely. So, they don't want to talk about death, they don't want to talk about reality, just keep that dreadful truth away from them. The organized type - arranging life in full detail, making life plans, setting tasks one after the other. These individuals sleep only after they have planned the first 2-3 hours of the following day. I did the math.

We were going to be travelling `expressly' at about 39 kilometres per hour. That's not even twice as fast as a horse. Whoever christened this snail train Dehradun Express either had a poor knowledge of English or a rich sense of humour. Climbing onto my designated sleeper berth on the top, I tore open a packet of milk biscuits and wolfed them down. I made a pillow by folding my bedsheet over my backpack. The conversations of fellow passengers soon quietened and merged with the monotonous clickety-clack thadak-thadak of the train rumbling through the night. My low boredom threshold, the continual stench from the latrine six feet away, and the absurd explanation to my question--those were enough to make me call off my trip at Nizamuddin Station in Delhi, half a day before the scheduled destination. Since then I've made many more journeys, and heard various ridiculous theories. I rejected all of them outright. See the ACEs Pyramid illustration below: Mechanisms by Which Adverse Childhood Experiences Influence Health and Well-being throughout the Life Span. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Violence Prevention, Adverse Childhood Experiences, 2012, www. (See appendix A for ACEs Questionnaire. The results were so astonishing that Dr Felitti became one of the world's foremost experts on childhood trauma and an avid advocate for the dire necessity of supporting children in gaining resilience. A powerful relationship between our emotional experiences as children and our physical and mental health as adults was revealed in the `Adverse Childhood Experiences' Study (ACE). In fact, the ACE in-depth study conducted by Dr Vincent J. Felitti shows that humans convert childhood traumatic emotional experiences into organic disease later in life. Those scoring high on the ACEs assessment suffer from complex PTSD that, left untreated, can lead to both mental and physical illness--a high price to pay for both the impacted individual and society. Teachers and school-based mental health staff are in a unique position to spot trauma symptoms. Learn to defeat those different fears using the courage that you have inside of yourself, be aware that you are able to accomplish anything that you put your mind to.

When you remain focused, work hard, and persist, you will eventually see a positive outcome. When you face your fears, you will automatically become open to trying new things, which will make you more self-aware as well as confident. This is one of the best ways to build up your confidence, is using your courage to defeat fears, and is open to welcome new challenges and ways of thinking. When you allow yourself to exist in a boring life, going through the same routines every day, this will result in your growth being paused. If you keep doing the same things, then you will never be able to experience anything different, so welcome change and keep an open mind. You also need to take responsibility for the choices that you make, even when you choose not to take action, this is still a choice. Be mindful of the type of choices that you have been making and figure out if they are working in harmony with your goals, your well-being, and your future. When you make it a habit of choosing things that are imperative to your success and achieving your goals, you will feel more like you are in charge, and the happier you will be. You can choose to look at every negative situation and find the positive or find a lesson, or a hint of something that you can use to get better, there is always something brighter to see in a dark situation. This doesn't mean I can't learn it or that I'm not smart. Everyone struggles with something. This is just what I personally will have to put a little extra time into. Notice how this child does not personalize their previous failure. Just because something goes wrong does not mean you need to attribute it to yourself. Let's say you watched a video of your favorite singer missing a high note that they usually soar over. Would this make you think less of them or take back your regard for their talent? You would understand that they made a mistake and move on from it. Show the same kind of courtesy to yourself. Changing your outlook on yourself and learning new thought patterns is going to take commitment. These repeating arguments could be with significant others, family members, friends, or just random strangers on the internet.