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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Psychology of Danger

 On the psychological elements of danger and the importance of perceptual experience of danger  

To some people danger is very interesting and ambitious whether people prosecute in unsafe activities such as as spying or even bungee jumping, the ability to face, control and defeat danger are some of the major challenges that some people look to enjoy. The enticement of danger is almost resistless for some as being able to take part in some kind of unsafe activity is kindred to a state of rousing and engagement in unsafe activities could take to hormonal changes. Danger have two elements in its psychological personal effects - one is the feeling of fearfulness and the other is the demand to defeat this feeling of fear. So let's state there is an consequence and an anti-effect arsenic a feeling of fearfulness takes to a feeling of exposure and failing and the endurance factor in a human urges on a individual towards facing and overcoming this feeling of exposure and weakness.

The fearfulness factor and demand to control, manipulate, challenge and defeat the fearfulness factor is the chief motive for embracing all word forms of danger. However one very of import thing is the perceptual experience of danger and in some lawsuits the attractive force towards a unsafe activity additions if it is considered as sufficiently ambitious and unsafe and these people who comprehend danger as attractive are 1s who are aware of their feelings of fearfulness and are strangely motivated by these feelings of fear. In some other lawsuits certain activities despite being unsafe may not be considered as unsafe adequate by certain people and this proposes that these people who make not desire to comprehend danger as unsafe adequate are motivated by the demand to defeat feelings of fear.

The perceptual experience of danger is thus motivated by these two factors - the demand to face and confront danger and the demand to defeat or suppress danger. The attractive force for danger is especially high for people who like probing or apprehension things at a deeper level. Some may not be exceptionally flashy and might prefer unsafe activities that may not affect physical hazard states of affairs as in lawsuit of authors or journalists who may take great hazards to portray events and states of affairs or their ain controversial ideas although they may not directly acquire involved in physically unsafe states of affairs yet are nevertheless searchers of danger in a certain way. Thus there can be many sorts of danger that people are attracted to and these may be:

  • Dangerous athletics -

  • Dangerous political activities -

  • Dangerous originative activities -

  • Dangerous professional activities -

  • Dangerous anti-social activities
  • Individuals are attracted to unsafe athletics as it supplies a sense of bang and this bang is kindred to an epinephrine haste or a state of rousing and the people are motivated by the demand to undergo fear. Danger athletics such as as as motocross and bungee cord jumping, stone climbing and mountain biking supplies physical pleasance because during utmost emotions such as thrills, the hormonal release supplies enjoyable sensations. In lawsuit of political activities however, people are motivated by the demand to defeat and suppress fearfulness as political activities could be mass rallies, presentations and other activities where people either vacation spot to or human face force and other types of danger. Creative activities such as authorship or picture controversial and highly provocative pieces could again be unsafe and in most lawsuits the author experiences 'fired' by an interior necessity to make a stir, undertaking a cause or carry through a mission. Writing or any originative activity could be considered as a originative channeling or sublimation of sexual energy according to Freudian footing and the root of such as activity would be sexual desire.

    The release of sexual energy through originative activity is kindred to sexual rousing and thus the individual in this lawsuit is motivated by the demand to undergo fear. In some lawsuits however the fearfulness factor is largely suppressed by the demand to carry through a missionary post through the originative work. Fear and rousing are interconnected as fearfulness also do rousing and associated hormonal changes. Professions could also affect danger as in the lawsuit of spying or agent work, working in the military or even for professional performing artists who prosecute in stunts. Dangerous professional activities could affect the demand to both face and defeat fearfulness although people have got to execute activities out of necessity rather than any specific desire to undergo danger. Yet the very fact that such as communities pull certain types of people high spot that the demand to undergo fearfulness could be very strong initially in certain types of personalities. Dangerous anti-social activities such as as terrorism, self-destruction bombing, attacks, law-breakings etc. tin have got assorted motivations from a sense of missionary post or intent although the implicit in demand to undergo and suppress fearfulness is very strong in this case. Crimes are usually committed as a consequence of aggressive urges and the demand to prosecute in antisocial activity would be similar to the demand to prosecute in originative activity as both would be a release of sexual energy and the criminal is motivated by the demand to undergo fear. The idea of a law-breaking or doing something radical, lurid and different instills a sense of bang in many individuals. The creative person or author is motivated by this demand to shock, the criminal is also motivated by this demand to stun and make something extremist and here fear goes both a challenge and an experience. The psychological science of danger is ultimately based on the perceptual experience of danger and the fearfulness factor caused by this perception. Some people could see the demand to defeat fearfulness as a challenge and requirement to one's development as overcoming fearfulness could better fight and mental strength. The added demand to stun as a method of conquering fearfulness of danger is seen in people and felons but not in sportsmen and people to whom danger is more than about facing and experiencing the thrills of fearfulness and arousal.

    The people and authors may also share a passionateness for danger and a missionary post with the political militants whose love for danger is fired by a sense of missionary post or purpose. Thus although the demand to undergo and defeat fearfulness stay the primary elements in the psychological science of danger, the demand to stun and the demand to carry through a missionary post or intent are other secondary elements that actuate people to prosecute danger. Danger is similar to escapade although escapade may not always affect the hazards that dangers do. A psychological science of escapade would thus in many facets overlap a psychological science of danger and frailty versa.

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    Wednesday, December 3, 2008
    Attitude of Gratitude? (Yeah, Right)

    You've been in a frightful temper these past few weeks. You're living payroll check to payroll check just covering expenses, practicing the mulct fine art of "which recognition card make One max out now and who make I pay before my recognition mopes out totally?" You're terrified you're going to lose that cherished beachhead you have got on the American Dream, aka your 2 bedroom, 1 ½ bath duplex, for you've heard rumours twittered and blogged that your company is considering more than than layoffs, and what could be more dispensable than your 2nd interior designer helper job?

    So when your co-worker Girl Perky resiles in, gleaming from her pre-work jog, and flashes her immaculately whitened smiling at you, saying: "Tut-tut, I see a grim face. Where's your mental attitude of gratitude?" you boom with undisguised hate and lurch for her throat.

    OK, well, so you don't roar/lunge, you whine and gaze resolutely down at your desk, clutching the work you can't look to acquire started, and believe awful thoughts, like "Attitude of gratitude, my *%^*! Like I have got anything to be thankful for. ."

    Well, you make - although it certainly may not look that manner right now - and the more than than you concentrate on what you have got to be thankful for, what you can appreciate, the more quickly and easily you will raise yourself out of your current woes.

    You see, when you are consumed with ideas of doom, you don't see the chances for success and joyousness all around you. Appreciation and gratitude are not just cunning bombilation words. They are very existent perceptual choices, which in bend unfastened up very existent options for you. You can take what you pay attending to in your environment, and what you take to pay attending to have consequences.

    When you expend all your energy worrying about the fate of your duplex, you're not looking for ways to maintain your duplex house house - like rent out one of the rooms, happen a roommate, finally turning your trade avocation into a beginning of other dollars, etc. Your concern goes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you are riveted by narratives of at hand company disaster, you are not doing all that you can to do your occupation - and yourself - so valuable to the company that you'd be the 1 individual retained despite monolithic layoffs. If anything, trailing your wretchedness behind you like a bedraggled Iore, you do yourself that much less attractive an employee.

    An mental attitude of gratitude, appreciating what you have, what is already in your life, is a manner of seeing the chances that abound to assist you accomplish whatever it is you want.

    So yes, especially when the state of affairs looks foreboding, when it looks fortune are against you, rouse yourself to an active hunt for "What could I appreciate here? What could have got value for me? What possibility can I be genuinely grateful for?" and travel for it with all the energy that the expectancy of success and joyousness can bring.

    Attitude of gratitude? Yeah, right!

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