“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.” PeopleUniverseChristEnvironmentBloodTaughtDiseaseAnxietyCommunicateSexualityAidsNeighborCupsCommunionSurgeryRegisterTaught Us Author:Susan Sontag
“Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.” Has BeensProblemMightGoneEnvironmentPersonalityAnxietyResponseEdgesSurfaceNoiseDullSparksOur EnvironmentStimulusBrillianceIrritatingResponsivenessLiving Once Author:Indra Devi
“Hopefully, there isn't any adjustment at all in terms of what I am doing and what I'm preparing. Obviously, there's going to be goose bumps. There's gonna be an adrenaline rush. I want that excitement. I want that anxiety. Because that lets you know that you're passionate about what you do and that this is important. I'd much rather be in that environment than not.” ImportantTermEnvironmentAnxietyPassionateHopefullyExcitementGeeseAdrenaline Author:Beth Mowins
“I was having pretty bad anxiety attacks and stuff, and I think a lot of it had to do with my physical environment. Deep down I've always had a pretty strong connection with nature, but I've suppressed it for so long while living in the city. I think it caught up to me. I started really bugging out and needing wide-open space. So it was that simple. That and social anxiety. I felt like I was existing too much in nightlife.” ThinkingLongStrongSimpleEnvironmentAnxietyCaught UpSocial Anxiety Author:Brian Degraw
“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.” PersonsPurposeIndividualSocialTermAbilityEnvironmentAchieveCircumstancesDegreesAnxietyOvercomingIndependentRewardsPunishmentContemporaryEnjoymentAutonomyReward And PunishmentSocial EnvironmentContemporary Life Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ActionChangeEnvironmentAnxietyFearlessFasterHard TimesDiminishTaking ActionLoving LifeHappiness And SuccessCourage To Change Author:Walter Inglis Anderson
“Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.” ReligionSocialEnvironmentAtheismEconomicAnxietyMechanismCopingCoping Mechanisms Author:Gregory S. Paul
“Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.” IfsStatesAttentionBrainEnvironmentTroubleAnxietyConsciousFunctionPerpetualMaking ChangesDefine YourselfShooterTrouble Making Author:Alan Watts
“Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.” ThinkingMadeSufferingPowerfulEnvironmentAnxietyCynicalGeneratorSuburbia Author:James Howard Kunstler