The Power Of Fear: Lessons From Ft. Hood
Although I have made friends with fear, I have not conquered it. Fear arises as an instinct. But the more we work with it, the less it controls our actions.
Although I have made friends with fear, I have not conquered it. Fear arises as an instinct. But the more we work with it, the less it controls our actions.
Mike Robbins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
Many of us, myself included, get so obsessed with doing things "right," or at the very least not doing anything that could be perceived as "wrong," we organize much of what we say and do to avoid ever being "wrong."
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.
Robert Englund | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
A Nightmare on Elm Street's original Freddy Krueger reveals five things that are currently giving him nightmares.
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Loss and change cannot be prevented in life. It would be nice, but the reality is that the future is uncertain and anything can happen. The key is to stay out of fear by controlling your physiology.
Therese Borchard | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Fears are like annoying relatives. You can't avoid them forever, and ignoring them won't make them go away.
Lisa Guest | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Anyone can say anything. Anyone can come up with a line. With a gift bag gab of wisdom, knowledge and confidence, someone can really cover the world and be quite deceptive. There are those that do it. They make it bad for the rest.
Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
A full defense of the public option requires moving beyond the basic arguments for reform. It requires reform proponents to take seriously the fears of opponents, even if they make up only a minority of the American public.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
What does "not being into you" mean? People assume that it is just about sexual attraction, but is it just this?
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
It is an interesting dichotomy - one group seems to open with age, the other seems to close. With openness, it seems that death is much less frightening as if it is merely another viewpoint of sorts.
Kiri Westby | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Last Friday I went to hear a keynote address from Iran's only Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi. I was blown away.
Doc Childre | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Many people are feeling a shift in consciousness happening now and some are predicting a major planetary shift around the year 2012.
Joseph LeDoux | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
Remember Jim Carrey's character in Eternal Sunshine? He wanted the memory of Clementine extracted, traces of her wiped clean. Surely this was a film fantasy and impossible in real life. Or is it?
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
The image of corporations as "hard-ass", "bottom-line" machines of productivity is appealing to those who wish to believe that money comes from automatic sources that respond to cold, hard, practical and rational interventions.
Susan Moeller | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
Too much of what comes back to the US about Pakistan is breaking news of such events as a suicide attack. We Americans project our own fears, our own concerns on them.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living
Working with social anxiety - and phobias - can take many forms including therapy, meditation, and medication. And I have found that humor also helps.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Lauren Mackler | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
Conservative political policies have been built around the manipulation of that ugly quality called victim blame. They are brilliant in that they have freed us from the responsibility of being our brother's keeper.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living
Children are naturally prone to curiosity -- but all too often this is replaced by nurture that cautions against everything that is unknown, leading ultimately to a life ultimately not much worth knowing about at all.
Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Obama wishes to relieve the suffering of Americans, but he does not wish to challenge the old "Bottom Line" of the competitive marketplace. Unfortunately for him and for most Americans, he can't have it both ways.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Napolitano can't afford to understate the seriousness of the swine flu, even though America has been abused by politically motivated scare tactics for eight years.
Dr. Gino Yu | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
With the confluence of the national health care debates and the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, I couldn't help but put the two together and wonder about the psychological impact of the "War on Terror" and its impact on the health.
Billy Parish | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
Until we change our lifestyle, the Earth will remain in the danger zone. There is still time to bring carbon dioxide levels back down, but it's going to take a major transformation in how we think and act.
Kiri Westby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living