Comments on: Your Emotions and How You Think About Them

By: Louche

Louche — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:35:03 +0000

Hmm, I dunno about this. Thinking of all the times I’ve been nervous and excited, the two have been pretty separated as far as physiological states go. When I’m nervous, my hands shake and my heart tries to jump out of my chest. When I’m excited, I don’t fidget because I’m shaking but because I have so much energy that I want to expend it all in a short amount of time. Adrenaline is a fight-or-flight response that I don’t think I get when I’m just excited.

I can’t say if it’s possible to turn adrenaline into just excitement… that’s an interesting idea that I’d like to try. The important thing is to change your mindset. It doesn’t really matter to me where my body is if I’ve got the right mindset.

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By: RT Wolf

RT Wolf — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:13:26 +0000

Oh, and I wouldn’t put what I’m talking about as a half full/empty situation. I don’t think of this as half-baked optimism, but a fundamental change in the way we think of things in a way that empowers us rather than disempowering, especially considering that one is as “true” as the next.

By: RT Wolf

RT Wolf — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:11:07 +0000

That sounds interesting. How do I find out more about it? Can you point me to a website or article or book or something? Google gave me not very interesting results.

Thanks for commenting!

By: Midi

Midi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:00:01 +0000

I know you’re sort of instigating the notion of “half-full glass of water” vs. “half-empty glass of water” herer. But what you are talking about with the stories vs. theories remind me of chronicle writing vs. humanism writing during the Renaissance. Check it out if you wish, it’s quite interesting to see how one city consider re-telling history as to entail causal explanations, while the other city judge that as being too contrived and just try to lay out as many minute details as possible.