Thoughts cause Anxiety (and can help relieve it)

People that have anxiety issues typically have constant brain chatter that is so pervasive that it eventually becomes ignored.

slightly off-topic:
This doesn't have anything to do with the anxiety per se, but when a person is exposed to a stimuli enough, the brain stops to consciously recognize it. 

But just because a suffer of anxiety isn't aware of a worrying thought/s, doesn't stop the thought's influence over a person. As a person who had serious anxiety in the past (and mild anxiety today), one of my best tips is to merely bring awareness to the thought-process. The majority of the time, the thoughts that stress us out are irrational, but they can torment a person that ignores them. Never ignore a worrying thought, instead try to see the big picture, put it into perspective, think about the worry out-loud (forces the idea to be subject to higher reasoning). Going back to the thesis of this blog post, it is the worries that are repeated over and over again that allow anxiety to build up and stick around in a person's life (like constantly scratching at a scap, it is made worse and worse overtime). The important thing to do....

By the way, I tend to write as the thoughts flow out of me, so this post might be a bit rambley

..is to, when you notice negative thoughts come in, replace them with positive thoughts. This will help balance the worldview. It's not a bad thing to have negative thoughts, but just be balanced. Consciously try to think of positive thoughts and at least be 50/50 (I prefer to be 20/80 with negative to positive thoughts, respectively). In other words, when you notice negative thoughts, go through a cognitive exercise of forcing yourself to think of positive things (can be anything optimistic).  

Talking to God vs. Talking to Yourself.

I'll admit it, I talk to myself all the time. Sometimes I even talk to the internet (which is what blogging is, and people are allowed to watch). But why is it so weird for people to talk to a "higher power"? During my more close-minded days, I used to make fun of people that would pray to God. Regardless if God exists or not (I have no way of knowing if such a being exists), is it any less rational to talk to yourself as oppose to what many atheists refer to as an "imaginary friend"? When you talk to yourself, you're really talking to an imaginary self. Sometimes we just need someone to talk with. It's not like anyone can be totally free of delusion anyways. Nearly everyone's (other than maybe some Buddhists monks) perceptions have inaccuracies, but there's such a thing as "useful delusions". At the end of the day being happy is what's important, and if praying to God or talking to yourself helps fulfill a psychological need, I say go for it. 

The Benefit of Mitt Romney's "Prank" on Gay Kids

Mitt Romney cut a gay kid's (who was closeted at the time) hair in high school (physically held him down and cut his bangs). Mittens knew that the kid could have gotten a lazy eye. The man has a  heart of gold (maybe platinum?)  

Update - Final Exam Today

I have a final exam in the Caring for America course that I'm taking. It's all about dementia and old people doing weird shit (like the behavior of carrying around fecal matter because they don't know what it is). Courses like this are disturbing to take because eventually we will all reach that point (unless we die before our time). I just can't imagine living each moment around stranger family members and not being able to contextualize anything. It would be like being drunk 24-7. 

Update: I hate studying for finals...

I read 300 pages yesterday, and have to read about 200 pages today and write 6 pages (typed) for assignments due. It's ridiculous that these professors have work due on finals week. I made sure to give them all terrible reviews on our last class (last week). 

Anti-Liberal (Yahoo News) Comment that I enjoyed.

"You know you’re a Liberal if you believe free speech of anything vulgar or sexual is fine. However free speech of anything related to God is not."


Thought I would put this up here. I think it's so true of liberal idiots. The double standard that liberals have in what should be allowed as "free speech" and what shouldn't is so obvious. Anyone should be free to express religious views (even politicians). 

Rant on Obama and Gay Marriage

I don't like Obama, let me get that out first. I don't like Obama because of his spending, his use of military force WITHOUT congressional approval, and his apparent apathy about the state of the United States (which is  fairly common among professional attention whores). Obama is a flip-flopper on the issue of gay marriage, which is a major slip up if he hopes to get reelected. Gay marriage is a joke. I say that because marriage is a traditional institution that has been around for thousands of years, existing for the purpose of love between a man and a women which results in the creation of humans. Marriage provides the family, which is the foundation of society. With high divorce rates, and now men wanting to marry other men and women other women, what exactly is marriage now? What percent of people actually marry for the purpose of actually CREATING a family (adoption creates nothing, it merely relocates individuals that are victims of our failing society)? Even if gay marriage becomes legalized (liberals are fighting for any who rebel against the current social structures, being only concerned with its destruction and replacement with nothing but base human instinct), I will not accept their marriage as being legitimate. To me, gay marriage would be a facade at best. I don't hate gay people, but this is a clear attack on traditional views of marriage. Marriage to me is a sacred thing, and it's under attack. Nothing makes the fact that marriage has been attacked in our culture more obvious than the over 50% divorce rate. 

Changing name of site to reflect my change of views.

The title pretty much says it all. I would consider myself to be an agnostic now. Atheism is too rigid of a stance to take on the issue of spirituality and religion. Also, I'm a conservative (always have been), and I wanted my blog title to reflect that as well. 

Liberals are Wrong/Delusional

Liberals have an intense arrogance about them, and as I will show in this post, they are full of "it". Liberalism is a psychological disorder. You may be thinking that this is hyperbole, but it's not. While some liberals are indeed well educated, they also have deficiencies when it comes to reality formation. In other words, and to be more specific, the liberal mind doesn't process the difference between what is imaged vs. what is experienced without conscious effort. While yes, virtually all people (perhaps excluding those who are into meditation) have useful delusions, but for liberals it is much more pervasive in their thought-process. For conservatives, their awareness is more grounded in personal experience via the senses (the only real experience out there). We can't experience reality beyond our senses, but liberals lose the awareness of their senses are unable to differentiate between what is real versus what is imagined. Most people have these "trance-like" states, but for liberals they space out much more often, and (from what I've experienced) seemingly are unable to perceive the shift between experiencing the senses and experiencing delusion created by the imagination. 

Example

A moderate/conservative individual has no problem eating meat, they see a delicious plate of hot-wings and/or a cheeseburger and start to salivate (assuming they have an appetite and the food is decent quality). A super-duper liberal sees meat and their imaginations run wild with images of animals being murdered. They believe that these images are real, and this causes the manifestation of negative emotions and perhaps even sickly feelings. In fact, the delusion of vegetarian liberals (the vast majority of vegetarians are liberals) is so pervasive that many even believe that animals are people. What do I mean by this? Well, they inject human emotions, even a human soul (using their oh-so-active imaginations) into the heads of chickens and fish, and believe that their experience is the same as theirs. This causes the hard-wiring we have against cannibalism to activate. 

Those who are grounded to reality with mindfulness are naturally more conservative. They don't "see" the world through multiple perspectives because they know they can't. Liberals believe that just because they can imagine the world through someone else's eyes, this means that their imaginations are accurtely depicting it. Liberals, reality check, you can only view the world through your own experience. When empathy crosses the line into the liberal-god-complex, this causes seriously distorted lines of reasoning. 

My advice: Appreciate your ignorance, don't encourage delusion, and accept people as they are. 

Avoid Metal/Rock/Rap Music if you Have Anxiety

Aggressive music can trigger the fight-or-flight response. In fact, this is the purpose of such music, to give people a "rush". The issue is that for those who have anxiety issues, the fight-or-flight response exasperates anxiety levels. Speaking from personal experience, while such music may seem to be "reducing stress", this is only because of the stress hormones that flood into the bloodstream that numb the body (which what the fight-or-flight response is suppose to do).

The best music to listen to if you have anxiety issues is calm, relaxing music. Such music can have a positive influence on anxiety levels.