Tag: Triggers

• June 24, 2011

  The Double-Edged Sword of Negative Thought Patterns

  Most people understand that certain substances can trigger an allergic reaction in the body. What far fewer people understand is that negative thoughts — anger, worry, self-pity, depression — can…

• June 16, 2011

  The Difference Between Your Brain and Your Mind

  Why do we keep repeating the same emotional patterns? Why do certain situations — an argument, a financial stress, a moment of intimacy — pull us back into feelings that…

• June 14, 2011

  When Emotional Pain Becomes a Demand

  In Part 1 we explored how the three primary instincts — security, sex, and society — operate below the level of consciousness and trigger the four signs of emotional insecurity:…

• June 13, 2011

  What Is Self-Searching?

  Most of us have felt the pull of emotions we could not quite explain. A wave of worry with no clear cause. A flash of anger that seemed out of…

• June 9, 2011

  How Other People’s Pain Can Trigger Your Own

  Have you ever ended a conversation feeling worse than when it started, even though nothing in your own life changed? That unsettling shift may not be a sign that something…