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  1. So, by making motorists go at a slow pace aren't they polluting the atmosphere more as the engines push out more exhaust? Also, I bet they have smartphones, which are one of the gadgets that add more CO2 to the atmosphere through mining for components and the chemicals needed for the plastic than most domestic devices. Or am I being thick?
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  2. Apart from the stoic response to anxiety, try eating or chew chewing gum. Anxiety is a temporary state induced by false information fuelled by adrenaline. As anxiety takes hold, Cortisol is released. A fun fact. Put two people on one of these funfair rides that are designed to scare. One person will freak out and the other will think it is crazy fun. Both are experiencing an adrenaline rush. By eating you switch off the cortisol rush and confuse the brain. The fight/flight is switched off.
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  3. My go to is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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  4. I applaud this hugely. I've done this for a while, and it does work. The only tweak you might want to consider is using different-coloured index cards. Also if you number your index flags and write in the front of the book where there are some blank (ish) pages and make an entry e.g. Flag 1 = Motivation v Inspiration. This is great though.
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  5.  @gailposada6437  This was my speciality when I was a psychiatric nurse. You can read all the books and do therapy, but unless you control the cortisol flow nothing will change. What eating does is confuse the brain. It's a stupid machine really. When you eat it has to stop the cortisol because it is trying to work out why you are not running away or fighting. Breathing techniques like 7/11 breathing is also good.
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  6.  @chauswriting  Yes, that's a distraction. Anxiety likes the spotlight, so when you take the energy away, it must compress down and stop. Anxiety is like a faulty car alarm that goes off unexpectedly. To fix it it needs to be worked on. Chewing gum is the one way to help. I used a variety of techniques to help patients. EFT - Emotional Freedom Therapy. This looks really weird but does work. Hypnosis is another tool I used. Basically, it is guided imagery. You need to work on it to get results. One type of therapy or a combination of stuff. Sleeping is good, but not the solution.
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  7.  @chauswriting  Yes, distraction does the trick. Anxiety is a diva and likes the spotlight to be constantly on it. Sleeping takes away the spotlight and therefore anxiety has nowhere to go but compress.
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  8. I've just finished Lessons in Stoicism and highlighted the hell out of it. So full of important thoughts and ways to improve.
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  9. To Maria: I hope this doesn't disappear like the other two replies. I mentioned a couple of things. One is hypnosis, specifically Eriksonian hypnosis. The other is EFT - Emotional Freedom Therapy. Please bear in mind we don't know each other so what I say is instinctual. You seem to have trained yourself to associate what you've tried with your anxiety. That is common, after all, it is part of your life like an unwanted lodger. I asked my patients to give it a name as just saying anxiety doesn't make it personal to you. One patient named it Tallulah. So when she came for her therapy session she would announce how many times Tallulah had come to visit. That was our starting point. Remember, you do anxiety uniquely to you, so all therapy has to be based on you and not out of a book. That's why a good Eriksonian-trained hypnotist can make your experience fit you and not you fit the prescribed treatments doctors and therapists seem to employ.
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  10. The best writing advice I've ever received was from Jack Higgins who wrote The Eagle Has Landed and several other books. I asked him what was the best advice he could give me as a fledgling writer. He said; "Start".
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  11.  @EntertheGam3  Everything like this should be free. I hope it helps out.
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  12.  @chauswriting  Hope it helps.
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  13. Penguin sold small A6-size short story books in Classic and Modern classics. The classics have black covers, and the modern covers are light blue. In the UK, they are £1 or under a dollar.
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  14.  @mariahmier9313  I hope this doesn't disappear like the other two replies. I mentioned a couple of things. One is hypnosis, specifically Eriksonian hypnosis. The other is EFT - Emotional Freedom Therapy. Please bear in mind we don't know each other so what I say is instinctual. You seem to have trained yourself to associate what you've tried with your anxiety. That is common, after all, it is part of your life like an unwanted lodger. I asked my patients to give it a name as just saying anxiety doesn't make it personal to you. One patient named it Tallulah. So when she came for her therapy session she would announce how many times Tallulah had come to visit. That was our starting point. Remember, you do anxiety uniquely to you, so all therapy has to be based on you and not out of a book. That's why a good Eriksonian-trained hypnotist can make your experience fit you and not you fit the prescribed treatments doctors and therapists seem to employ.
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  15.  @mariahmier9313  I don't know why, but every time I've replied to you my writing has disappeared.
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  16.  @mariahmier9313  I hope this doesn't disappear like the other two replies. I mentioned a couple of things. One is hypnosis, specifically Eriksonian hypnosis. The other is EFT - Emotional Freedom Therapy. Please bear in mind we don't know each other so what I say is instinctual. You seem to have trained yourself to associate what you've tried with your anxiety. That is common, after all, it is part of your life like an unwanted lodger. I asked my patients to give it a name as just saying anxiety doesn't make it personal to you. One patient named it Tallulah. So when she came for her therapy session she would announce how many times Tallulah had come to visit. That was our starting point. Remember, you do anxiety uniquely to you, so all therapy has to be based on you and not out of a book. That's why a good Eriksonian-trained hypnotist can make your experience fit you and not you fit the prescribed treatments doctors and therapists seem to employ.
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  17.  @mariahmier9313  I hope this doesn't disappear like the other two replies. I mentioned a couple of things. One is hypnosis, specifically Eriksonian hypnosis. The other is EFT - Emotional Freedom Therapy. Please bear in mind we don't know each other so what I say is instinctual. You seem to have trained yourself to associate what you've tried with your anxiety. That is common, after all, it is part of your life like an unwanted lodger. I asked my patients to give it a name as just saying anxiety doesn't make it personal to you. One patient named it Tallulah. So when she came for her therapy session she would announce how many times Tallulah had come to visit. That was our starting point. Remember, you do anxiety uniquely to you, so all therapy has to based on you and not out of a book. That's why a good Eriksonian trained hypnotist can make your experience fit you and not you fit the prescribed treatments doctors and therapists seem to employ.
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  18.  @avengemybreath3084  Physical or philosophical?
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  19.  @mariahmier9313  Ever tried hypnosis? If you have was it Eriksonian hypnosis? EFT - Emotional Freedom Therapy is also a good technique? I think You tube does have a few videos. I thought it weird when I first saw it, but watched a demonstration and it blew my mind. Lots of actors use it to help calm themselves.
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  20. I don't know if the UK is different, but I bought 1984 today.
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  21. I love your take on this. Great information.
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  22. What can I learn from the people I hate is totally Stoic.
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  23. For me, I've gone back to Gordon R Dickson's Dorsai books. Very Dune like in some ways.
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  24.  @joemiller9931  Thick = Stupid
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