“Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.” FeelsRealFeelingsDreamEventsAnxietyResponsePerceiveEcstasyAnxiousEcstaticIllusory Author:Stephen LaBerge
“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.” WayChildrenCertainEnergyGrowthChallengesWalksDealsSituationStageEventsAchievementAnxietyAdultsNegativeMirrorsCrisisResponseInstanceMasteryNew LifeFeedbackPredictableCopingSmall ChildNew ChallengesRegressionNew SituationsNew Energy Author:T. Berry Brazelton
“Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.” PersonsCareCertainTurnsCasesEventsAnxietyParliamentForeseen Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.” RememberFoundChanceImpossibleEventsAnxietyCirclesPoisonCyclesMy ThoughtsTwistedRemarksPulseIvyHammeredPoison Ivy Book:The Beast: A Journey Through Depression Source: The Beast: A Journey Through Depression
“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.” MomentsSeemsIndividualEventsRegretAnxietyWholenessCheerful Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.” PeopleFeelsTermEventsHigherAnxietyMassEvidenceTraumaUnpredictable Author:Michael Helm