Why do we want to change how we feel about ourselves? Are our feelings pleasant or unpleasant? If our feelings are unpleasant, we drink, eat or take a pill to change them.
17 easy ways to become a happier and calmer person - Depression Cure - https:...Vikas Gupta
This document provides 17 methods for becoming happier and calmer by changing one's approach and conduct. Some key suggestions include being kind to yourself, practicing forgiveness, developing patience, slowing down the pace of life, keeping reactions internal, considering alternative perspectives, and using stress-reducing techniques like meditation, exercise, music, and spending time with children and pets. Adopting these behaviors can help people experience more peace in their daily lives.
17 easy ways to become a happier and calmer person - Depression Cure - https:...Vikas Gupta
This document provides 17 easy ways to become happier and calmer. It discusses methods such as being kind to yourself, practicing forgiveness, developing patience, slowing down the pace of life, controlling reactions, avoiding drama, and using cooling techniques like meditation and aromatherapy. Specific tips include talking to yourself with compassion, forgiving yourself and others for mistakes, thinking before worrying, comparing problems to more serious issues, and taking time for calming activities like listening to music or scent therapy. The overall message is that small changes in approach and behavior can help people feel more peaceful and content.
This document discusses the differences between thoughts and feelings and why it is important to understand feelings. It states that feelings give us important information about when to stop, yield or go, like traffic lights. However, many people ignore their feelings and rely only on their thoughts. This can be misleading and prevent us from solving problems or achieving goals. Feelings manifest physically in the body as sensations like tightness or flushing, while thoughts are based on beliefs and judgments that may not be factual. The document provides examples of common feelings and explains that feelings are neither good nor bad, they just exist and should be acknowledged and expressed in healthy ways.
Forgiveness can help manage anger by releasing the burden of pain from hurtful past events. Anger management involves controlling anger before it controls you by expressing anger appropriately, using mental and physical techniques, without hurting others, and striving to forgive. Forgiveness allows people to move past anger or resentment and experience inner peace and calmness instead of limiting their emotions. Practicing forgiveness by acknowledging anger while exhaling forgiveness can improve emotional responses and lead to feeling at peace. Benefits of anger management through forgiveness include better judgment, stress management, less conflict, improved communication and relationships, increased empathy, and understanding personal responsibility.
The document discusses K. Chapman's definitions of common feelings like love, humor, peace, anger, fear, surprise, and happiness. K. Chapman associates feelings of love with family hugs and kisses, humor with family making them laugh, and peace with the family not fighting. Anger is felt when the family argues and fights, and fear when the family does not take their medication. Surprise comes from receiving presents from family, and happiness from the family getting along. The document also provides ways K. Chapman copes with feelings and expresses both good and bad feelings.
This document discusses the motivating forces of fear and love. It notes that fear causes us to pull back from life while love allows us to open up to what life has to offer. Several attributes of love and fear are listed, showing how love is associated with positivity while fear relates to negativity. It encourages embracing love over fear to live a happier, more beautiful life. Moving away from fear and toward love even a little can significantly increase happiness.
This document discusses the author's social anxiety and how they communicate in relationships. They alternate between child and adult states due to their anxiety and need warmth and affection to feel secure. They are looking for a long-term partner who is willing to help lower their anxiety through non-verbal communication and hugs. They apologize in advance for potential moodiness or anger due to their mental illness.
The document discusses how drugs can be used to positively alter mood and mental states in beneficial ways. It argues that drugs should be developed and used to help people become more self-analytical, hopeful, tolerant, and better listeners, rather than just heightening emotional states. The word "drug" represents how external things can generate benign, positive states of mind. The document then provides examples of how personal drugs like books, coffee, music, and friends positively impact mood and bring happiness.
A Seven-Step Personal Transformation
From living a life driven by the Ego to one of Spiritual orientaiton whilst discovering and authentic source of power.
The document discusses taking a leap of faith by listening to your inner voice and heart. It encourages embracing your deepest calling with conviction despite potential skepticism from others. While faith can inspire positive actions, fear is the greatest barrier to faith. The document suggests overcoming hesitation by considering what you have to gain from taking a leap rather than holding back.
This document describes The LifeLine Experience, a 6-day training that teaches a technique for bridging the conscious and subconscious minds. It claims this technique can help heal physical, emotional, and mental challenges by processing repressed emotions and changing reactive subconscious patterns. The document provides several testimonials of people who experienced health improvements after using The LifeLine Technique, such as reducing sleep apnea episodes, recovering from PTSD, and improving behavioral issues in a child. It asserts that traditional medical approaches are limited and that The LifeLine Technique offers a new paradigm for achieving healing and transformation by addressing the root causes of issues in the subconscious mind.
Self-Love sounds so simple and yet, how do we get there? How do we understand and overcome the negative habits that sabotage our potential and happiness? This presentation will provide you with gentle and practical insights and visualisations to set you on your way to finding self-love.
This document is the introduction and first two chapters of a book about discovering one's authentic self. The introduction discusses the author's life experiences that prompted self-reflection, and encourages readers to recognize their innate talents and abilities. Chapter 1 discusses feelings of being lost or unfulfilled in life, and how focusing on survival limits one's potential. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of an "inner critic" or ego that can get in the way of knowing oneself.
Understanding Love -- Self-Help Regarding Psychological HealingMaria772Nielson
This document discusses psychological healing and conscious loving in relationships. It states that past emotional wounds and unresolved issues get stored in our body and mind, acting as barriers to self-understanding, awareness, and spiritual growth. These wounds also contribute to relationship problems. The document recommends taking responsibility for one's role in the relationship and working towards resolving one's own psychological issues in order to free oneself from the past and have a healthy relationship.
This document discusses feelings and emotions. It defines feelings as emotional reactions or states, and emotions as mental states that arise spontaneously. Both positive and negative feelings are mentioned, like happiness, jealousy, sadness, pride, confidence, envy, and fear. Primary emotions like love, joy, anger, sadness, surprise and secondary emotions are also defined. Pictures are then shown depicting situations that express different feelings like anger, sadness, pride, confidence, fear, jealousy and happiness. The document concludes with ways to control anger in the short and long term, such as removing yourself from the situation, relaxing activities, positive self talk and keeping a journal.
In this presentation I discuss fear of intimacy. We will also take part in a few exercises that point to giving and receiving love. The exercises will be very experiential and we will discuss them afterward.
An out-of-control state can bring frustration, insecurity, anger, and other uncomfortable emotions for parents. These emotions often stem from unresolved issues from our past that get triggered by our children and families. When our "pain body" is activated, we become more toxic and feel further out of control. It is important for parents to practice awareness and acceptance of all emotions, painful and positive, that arise from parenthood. By observing our own reactions without judgment, we can teach our children to accept life as it is and transcend uncomfortable emotions.
This document provides a 6-step guide for breaking free from emotional eating. It discusses how emotions drive eating behaviors and food choices. Step 1 explains the connection between emotions and food, how foods high in carbs and fat can boost serotonin and temporarily relieve negative feelings. Step 2 involves assessing if one is an emotional eater by considering eating behaviors. Step 3 recommends understanding personal emotional patterns and triggers. Step 4 stresses the importance of allowing oneself to feel uncomfortable emotions instead of avoiding them through eating. The guide advocates developing emotional mastery by observing feelings without judgment.
The document describes the cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concept of the cognitive triangle, which explains the interconnected relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It provides an example of how negative thoughts about a presentation can lead to increased anxiety and poor performance during the presentation, reinforcing the initial negative thoughts. The cycle of negative thoughts influencing negative feelings and behaviors that then influence more negative thoughts can repeat continuously without intervention. CBT aims to break this cycle by challenging distorted thoughts and developing more balanced perspectives.
Bridging the Gap of PTSD, Emotional Health and Medical Trauma Through Creativ...Amy Oestreicher
Presentation given by Amy Oestreicher at the 2019 Mental Health America Conference: "Dueling Diagnoses"
Want to learn how you can use your creativity, whether it be sewing, cooking, comedy, problem-solving or striking up conversations, to express the intersection between chronic illness and mental health?
In this workshop, attendees will learn how a range of expression can heal the gap between chronic illness and symptoms of mental health. They will gain understanding of how creative arts therapies can promote resilience emotionally, relieve stress, anxiety and depression, encourage self-expression and enhance independence after physical illness, and inspire connection with both themselves and the outside world through hands-on exercises. Participants will be able to identify maladaptive coping mechanisms that may follow a medical intervention or illness, and be empowered to discover which creative modality is right for them, developing their own therapeutic model which reduces anxiety and reactivates self-esteem.
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Title: My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful
ISBN: 9781733138802
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This document discusses various struggles that people may face such as anxiety, depression, addiction, shame, self-doubt, and toxic relationships. It notes that coping mechanisms like self-medicating or staying in abusive situations are temporary fixes like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The document advocates exploring core beliefs and feelings to determine if they are true. It suggests finding acceptance, confidence, and clarity in oneself so that others' behaviors do not control one's feelings and self-treatment. Reaching a compassionate understanding of oneself can provide security so that one is never alone.
1) The author searched for happiness through material possessions and relationships but did not find lasting happiness.
2) After experiencing hardships including the loss of his material wealth after moving to Canada, the author practiced mindfulness and broke habitual thought patterns.
3) Through mindfulness practice, choosing how to respond to circumstances, and focusing on the present moment, the author was able to find inner peace and happiness regardless of external conditions.
I decided to dedicate my story to everyone; everyone who, like me, does not just suffer with bipolar disorder, and the trail of destruction it leaves behind in our own lives and the lives of those around us, but everyone who suffers with mental illness. I don't want any of you to feel as lonely as I have for most of my life. I'm also writing this for the family and friends that suffer with us; those who often carry on supporting us regardless.
The document introduces Kelly, a bartender who runs a website called askkellyforadvice.com where people can get advice from an "ordinary person." Kelly feels qualified to give advice because over 16 years behind the bar, thousands have sought Kelly's advice on relationships, dating, marriage, divorce, parenting, careers and more. Kelly aims to be 100% honest and not sugarcoat advice. The website has no ads or spam and costs $3.99 to maintain but is meant to provide a real and helpful resource for people seeking advice.
The document discusses the practice of anapanasati, or full awareness of breathing. It provides reflections on how becoming aware of one's breath allows one to become aware of the mind and emotions. It states that the breath is like a loyal ally that exists for one's benefit. It suggests that learning to care for the breath can help one learn to care for thoughts and feelings. Overall it promotes breathing meditation as a way to cultivate self-awareness, calm the mind, and develop compassion.
This document discusses the use of dollmaking as a healing process. It provides examples of intentions that can be set for healing through dollmaking, such as healing fear, low self-worth, and relationships. The dollmaking process involves creating figures representing intentions, guardians, problems, compassion, and lessons learned. Expressing emotions through creating dolls can help release feelings in a healing way. Testimonials are included that describe how dollmaking has helped individuals heal from trauma and grow in self-understanding.
Angie Monko is the owner of Harmony Harbor, a health and wellness coaching business. She struggled with weight issues and food addiction her whole life. Through a 12-step program and practices like Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), meditation, yoga, and daily gratitude journaling, she has gained insights into how her beliefs and emotions manifested her overweight body. Her goal is to develop a "Soul-ution Mindset" of self-love, peace, and accepting all parts of herself to release the last 15 pounds and be a role model for others seeking wellness.
This document provides steps for recovering joy according to Dr. Nora Femenia. The 4 steps are:
1) Cancel negative emotions like sadness, anger, stress by recognizing and releasing them.
2) Love yourself by identifying and appreciating your positive qualities and successes.
3) Express joy by deeply breathing, feeling pleasure in your positive qualities, and doing spontaneous creative acts.
4) Create small daily joys by laughing, letting things go, and congratulating yourself for mistakes as learning experiences.
How To Reach Your Higher Self and Increase Your Capacity to Love Through Enli...Drew Doggett
The document discusses increasing one's capacity to love through practices involving sexual energy. It argues that men should learn to preserve their sexual energy through intimacy rather than ejaculation, in order to match and satisfy their partner's "infinite depth" of pleasure capacity. This practice is said to allow for sustained spiritual states of bliss and deep bonding. The document encourages cultivating control over one's energy and breath to experience heightened spirituality and fulfill one's "divine duty" to serve one's partner through pleasure.
The passage discusses bringing the five senses into one's heart to increase happiness and focus. It recommends focusing on pleasant smells, looking closely at natural beauty, listening to sounds in nature, touching textures, and truly tasting foods. It also suggests stopping to feel heart connections with loved ones and nature, and focusing one's breathing in the heart. Practicing these techniques can help liberate one from unproductive thoughts and increase happiness through present moment awareness and incorporating heart feelings. Committing to the practice will yield rewards.
The passage discusses techniques for increasing happiness through mindfulness of the senses and focusing attention on the present moment. It recommends bringing awareness to pleasant smells, sights of nature, sounds, textures, and tastes. It also suggests focusing on heartfelt connections with loved ones and the breath. When the mind is focused on the present rather than unproductive thoughts, one feels liberated and finds a way out of unhappiness. Regular practice of these techniques can increase happiness over time.
The passage discusses bringing the five senses into one's heart to increase happiness and focus. It recommends focusing on pleasant smells, looking closely at natural beauty, listening to sounds in nature, touching textures, and truly tasting foods. It also suggests stopping to feel heart connections with loved ones and nature, and focusing one's breathing in the heart. Practicing these techniques can help liberate one from unproductive thoughts and increase happiness through incorporating feelings from the heart. Committing to the practice will yield rewards.
Krish Murali Eswar’s Path of Prosperity Marketing hypnotismShilpa Narayanan
Krish Murali Eswar quit his job in 2011 and found himself financially insecure without a source of income. He went through a period of introspection and realized that his own unfulfilled desires and ignorance were the causes of his pain and difficulties. He learned to see challenges as opportunities for growth. His mindset and outlook transformed, and he started two successful businesses. He now feels at peace and aims to help others find hope, faith, and courage through spreading goodness.
The document contains testimonials from people who attended a workshop on manifestation and energy healing therapy called Molecular Terminal Valence Sloughing System (MTVSS). The testimonials describe positive changes in physical, emotional and mental well-being, including reduced stress, depression and pain, increased confidence and joy, and improved relationships and life circumstances. Many report that their lives were transformed in dramatic ways after just one session or workshop.
The document outlines five tools for having the relationship you want: 1) The Rori Raye Mantra of trusting boundaries, following feelings, choosing words, and being surprised. 2) Translating "control speak" to "surrender speak" by focusing on your own feelings. 3) Stopping overfunctioning in the relationship and letting your partner take the lead. 4) Appreciating your partner for who they are. 5) Appreciating yourself by trusting your feelings, speaking from the heart, and believing you deserve love. The overall message is that focusing on yourself and your feelings rather than trying to control your partner is key to having the relationship you want.
1) The United States is facing an unprecedented opioid epidemic and public health crisis, with drug overdose deaths nearly tripling between 1999-2014 and an estimated 75,000 Americans dying of drug overdoses in 2016 alone.
2) The current numbers do not fully capture the severity of the problem, and the author predicts over 100,000 people will die of drug overdoses in 2017. Those in recovery and the recovery community must make recovery their top priority and voice to inspire others seeking help.
3) To significantly reduce the number of people affected by this crisis, society must come together with a united voice and shared goals through the recovery community to accomplish solutions and create a nation that does not destroy itself from
Sound familiar? Could be your angry son or daughter. Could be a teen, an adult, an addicted loved one. Whoever is spewing, it leaves you feeling like you drank poison and then took a stomach punch from Mike Tyson.
Where your md meets my jd when the doctor says yes but the treatment team say...Mrsunny4
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and several published studies1, 80 percent of heroin users reported using prescription opioids prior to heroin.
Living beyond the downside of sex and sexual expressionMrsunny4
Sex and sexuality have become more prevalent throughout our global community. Obtaining sexually related products, images, and information have become readily available for anyone, of any age, to obtain with an internet access. Undoubtedly the consequence of such materials being readily available has had a positive and negative effect upon our society.
Deadly adulterants new dangers of illicit drugsMrsunny4
The “cutting” or “adulteration” of street drugs is common practice in the manufacturing, distribution and selling of illicit drugs, all in the name of increased profit.
Danger zone teen substance use and treatmentMrsunny4
Of summer, poet Darcy Cummings wrote of a “child leaving a walled school for the first time, stumbling from cool hallways to a world dense with scent and sound”.
Hey grandma, can i live with you grandparents and the opioid epidemicMrsunny4
1) Grandparents are increasingly taking on the role of raising their grandchildren as the opioid epidemic causes more parents to struggle with addiction and neglect their children. This is putting financial and emotional strains on many grandparents who are raising grandchildren full-time.
2) Around 2.9 million children in the US were living with their grandparents in 2015, with a total of 13 million children living with grandparents. Many grandparents have unexpectedly had to take on parenting roles again in their retirement years.
3) Grandparents who take on the full-time parenting of their grandchildren face significant financial challenges, with nearly 1 in 5 living below the poverty line. Resources to help support grandparents raising grandchildren are limited.
Dont be afraid to say the s word talking to kids about suicideMrsunny4
Through my work as Clinical Director of the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide, I frequently get asked by parents,” How do I talk to my child about suicide?
I define happiness as a feeling of contentment and peace about oneself. It’s the emotional response that the world is okay, there are better days ahead, and there’s room for possibility.
Anxiety, worry, stress, concern, apprehension, nervousness. It doesn’t matter what name you give it. It’s a horrible feeling. Anxiety comes when our minds focus on something in the future that feels like a threat.
For many parents, a child’s return to school may be met with a bag of mixed emotions, reservations and hesitations. They may have concerns about the potential of peer pressure, discrimination, school violence and exposure to various legal and illegal substances.
Relapse in most cases is not self-inflicted. Relapse-prone patients experience a gradual progression of symptoms that create so much pain that they become unable to function in sobriety.
When addiction crept into my household 11 years ago, I retreated to a journal. The clean, white pages offered me refuge to pour out my anguish, fear, confusion, and shame. It was a safe place to unveil my secret.
Our evolved unique feel good circuits makes humans different from apesMrsunny4
The brain regions circuitry tied to pleasure are difficult toaccurately describe, partly, because of many different ways we can trigger enjoyment or “Feel Good.”
The word “trauma” originated in the late 17th century from the Greek language. The literal translation is to “wound or damage.” The Greek word was specific to physical injury and has been used in medical terminology since.
Compulsive gambling is a progressive disease, much like an addiction to alcohol or drugs. In many cases, the gambling addiction is hidden until the gambler becomes unable to function without gambling, and he or she begins to exclude all other activities from their lives.
Pets were first kept by human beings as long as 12,000 years ago as guards and hunters. That role shifted in the 17th century to pleasure and companionship and in modern times, pets are treated as family members, with 62% of Americans owning pets.
This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of age-related eye conditions, focusing on their impact, prevention, and management. Key topics include:
- Common age-related eye conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy.
- Symptoms and risk factors associated with these conditions.
- The importance of regular eye check-ups and early detection.
- Practical tips for protecting and preserving vision.
- Workplace eye safety and the use of protective eyewear.
5 Most Influential Pharmaceutical Leaders in India 2024.pdfinsightscareindia
This edition features a handful of 5 Most Influential Pharmaceutical Leaders in India 2024 that are at the forefront of leading us into a digital future
A colostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an opening in the large intestine, or colon, through the abdominal wall. The opening, called a stoma, allows waste products to pass through the colon and out of the body, and a pouch can be placed over it to collect the waste
Yoga Nidra Retreat in Bangalore
Yoga Nidra Retreat in Bangalore
A restful night is key to a healthy lifestyle. The reason behind many health issues that most people have from the modern way of living is nothing but lack of proper sleep. Well, it’s not like they don’t want to sleep, lack of time, an after-effect of day-long stress, and long-term anxiety trigger sleeplessness and thus respective disorders as well.
As per the recent survey, the insomnia percentage in India is above 33%, and the people who are most likely to be impacted with sleep deprivation hover around 52%. These numbers are higher compared to other countries.
Are you one of those populations suffering from sleeplessness and health issues due to lack of proper sleep? If Yes, then you must know that Yoga is the only way to get out of your situation to ensure restful nights after daylong stress and busy working schedules throughout the week.
Besides, even scientific studies prove that frequent consumption of stress-relieving, depression, or sleeping pills is not at all good for health and the brain. In such a scenario, Yoga is the only effective and probably most reliable way to get your sleep on track. Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham will be on your side as a reliable Weekend Yoga Nidra Retreat in Bangalore.
Yoga Nidra aims at activating the relaxation response and improving the nervous and endocrine system functioning to ensure peaceful nights and active working hours.
Benefits:
An emphasis on some of the more Eastern practices (like yoga nidra, including pranayama, kriyas, mantras).
A peaceful location – the perfect setting for a Yoga Nidra Retreat.
Deepen your yoga practice and take it to the next level.
Retreat Curriculum Details
Practice Relaxation & Preparation for Yogic Sleep
Introduction to the concept and practices of relaxation
Relaxation in daily life
Sequence of relaxation practices
Tension & relaxation exercises
Systematic relaxation exercises
Preparations for Yoga Nidra
Mantra chanting
Introduction to mantra science
Morning prayers & Evening prayers
Surya-namaskar 12 mantras along with bija mantras
Pranayama Practices
Establishment of diaphragmatic breath
Different practices of pranayama
Yoga Nidra philosophy, Lifestyle, & Yoga Ethics
What is Yoga Nidra?
Philosophy of Yoga Nidra
Yoga Ethics
What Makes This Retreat Special
The practice of Yoga Nidra has been secret and imparted to those few yogis who have mastered their sleep. In Indian Mythology, there occurs a unique concept of sleep. We often find even the trinity of the universe Lord Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva under the domination of sleep.
The course will explore the concept of Yoga Nidra details at theoretical and practical levels. This is designed to assist students of yoga to understand and experience the deeper layers of their personalities.
Type: Yoga Nidra Retreat
Date: 11th Sep 2021
Duration: 2 days
Location: Bangalore outskirt, India.
Food: Vegetarian
Accommodation
Shared Dormitory
Room
Automated Feedback in Digital Depression Screening: DISCOVER Trial | The Life...The Lifesciences Magazine
A recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health delves into the effectiveness of automated feedback following internet-based depression screenings.
AI in Patient Engagement and Follow-Up Care.pptxGaurav Gupta
Introduction
Dr. Gaurav Gupta, an AI enthusiast, presents a comprehensive overview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance patient engagement and follow-up care. The presentation focuses on utilizing AI tools such as chatbots and ChatGPT to streamline healthcare processes, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the workload of healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives
Engaging Patients: Utilizing AI-driven chatbots to assist patients.
Follow-up Care: Employing ChatGPT to create discharge summaries, patient education materials, and more.
AI in Research: Leveraging AI tools to enhance research capabilities.
Chatbots in Healthcare
Definition: Chatbots are software designed to simulate conversation.
Types: Rule-based and AI-based chatbots.
Uses in Healthcare:
Scheduling appointments
Providing information and reminders
Offering mental health support
Advertising healthcare services
Benefits:
24/7 support
Reduced waiting times
Improved patient engagement
Allows healthcare professionals to focus on complex tasks
Examples:
Babylon Health
Woebot
Reducing Workload with ChatGPT
Discharge Summaries:
ChatGPT can generate discharge summaries, significantly reducing the administrative burden on healthcare providers.
Example of a mock patient vignette demonstrates the effectiveness of using ChatGPT for this purpose.
Patient Handouts:
ChatGPT can create customized patient handouts for various needs, such as dietary advice for specific conditions.
Example: Creating a diet chart for an 8-year-old gymnast with growing pains.
AI in Research
Tools and Platforms:
Consensus.app: A platform for conducting AI-enhanced research.
Users can search for topics such as alternative treatments for neonatal jaundice or the impact of weight training on teenagers.
AI Toolkit:
Various AI tools available to generate images, music, videos, presentations, and more.
Recommended websites:
There’s an AI for That: Link
Future Tools: Link
Super Tools: Link
Conclusion
The integration of AI in patient engagement and follow-up care offers numerous benefits, including improved efficiency, better patient outcomes, and enhanced research capabilities. By leveraging tools like chatbots and ChatGPT, healthcare professionals can provide more personalized and effective care while reducing their workload.
Call to Action
Explore the use of AI tools in your practice to enhance patient engagement and follow-up care.
Stay updated with the latest AI technologies and their applications in healthcare.
Utilize platforms like Consensus.app and other AI resources to support your research and practice.
For more detailed insights, check out the full presentation on Slideshare!
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How Do I Feel?
thesoberworld.com/2017/07/01/how-do-i-feel
Why do we want to change how we feel about ourselves? Are our feelings pleasant or
unpleasant? If our feelings are unpleasant, we drink, eat or take a pill to change them. Or,
if we are having pleasant feelings, we want to feel even better- so we drink, eat or take a
pill. It’s not enough. I am not enough. I don’t like how I feel and I’ll do anything to feel
better even if it’s harmful to me. Deep inside, I don’t care about myself. I am not enough.
Like an unhealthy donut, I have a giant hole that I’m trying to fill. I am unaware of my
emotions and feelings. I don’t understand them.
When I was in my early twenties, I was feeling immense shame, sadness and inadequacy.
I was confused about my emotions. I began drinking and snorting cocaine to change how I
felt about myself. All those unpleasant feelings vanished when I was drunk or high. I felt
comfortable, whole, perfect and powerful. No inhibitions, no fears. I loved that feeling and
I did not want to stop feeling that way. I did not want to feel pain or the problems of my
life so I avoided discomfort by being high. But the high inevitably turned into a low.
When the high was over, I crashed… becoming depressed and filled with more unpleasant
emotions. I needed more cocaine. I overspent, under-worked… always chasing the high. I
needed to consume more and more of it and for longer periods. I needed to stay high, feel
powerful… I did so much cocaine to feel this, that I would go into respiratory arrest and
quit breathing. Then another crash… I could not stop. I risked my life many times to feel
high.
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My shame, debts, painful feelings of inadequacy and anxiety compounded… My
relationships were in jeopardy, I was feeling confused, hopeless, despair… I give up. How
did it get this far? I am searching for a bottom of a bottomless pit. Help! I call a treatment
center… I go… and in there, as I struggle to grasp what happened to me, I have a moment.
A shift in my consciousness, a moment of hope. I feel I can recover.
I can finally find myself and feel good. How can I feel that power I felt when high with no
substances or dependency?
I have been off substances for over 33 years. However, I have been dependent on money,
smoking and love- anything,not to feel those unpleasant feelings. So how do I change
those feelings… how do I become emotionally mature?
This begins with self-discovery and awareness. I had to become my authentic self. We all
lie about how we feel. When someone asks, “How are you?” Most people respond, “I am
good,” even if we aren’t. As I begin to self-examine my internal beliefs about myself, I
realize a significant point. I was raised to deny my feelings. I have stuffed them inside of
me. Highly sensitive, I cried. I was told to stop crying. When I was angry, I was told to be
happy. When I was super excited, I was told to calm down. And when I did something
wrong, I was told shame on you! Parents, teachers, everyone around me as a child was
telling me to deny my feelings, and if I did something wrong- here are some unpleasant
feelings to top off your guilt and shame.
Here are eight emotional states:
• Love – affection, care, compassion, fondness, attraction
• Joy – enthusiasm, excitement, thrill, happiness
• Surprise – Can be pleasant or unpleasant, amazement, astonishment, or irritation and
aggravation
• Anger – rage, upset, resentful, mad
• Sadness – grief, disappointment, loss
• Fear – apprehension, anxiety, nervousness, unease
• Shame – unworthy, regret, guilt, remorse
• Trust – belief, faith, honesty
There are multitudes of feelings based on these emotions. I embarked on my elementary
education of emotions. Why do I feel this way? What caused my unpleasant feelings? How
do I heal them?
Becoming self-aware… I feel unworthy because I was teased and bullied. This caused low
self-worth, sadness, anger and shame. I healed this by being aware that I am not
worthless, and I am good… I am not bad even when others say I am. I started
understanding my unpleasant feelings and why they were inside of me. One by one, I
plucked them out and replaced them with the truthful feelings.
I was pained and full of shame, so I escaped reality by creating a fantasy world in my
head. In my fantasy world, I felt worthy, happy and fulfilled. Ah, just like escaping my
unpleasant feelings with drugs and alcohol!
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By understanding my beliefs about myself, I realized my strengths, weaknesses and
talents. I came to honor my sensitivity as strength. I began to care about myself. I began
to like myself and then love myself. I realized inside of me was a power… that I could use
that power to express myself in work, relationships and life. I began to really feel good. I
wasn’t afraid to express my feelings. I became transparent and the shame began to be
replaced with self-confidence.
Today, I ask myself many times each day, “How am I feeling? What am I feeling? Why am
I feeling this way?” I don’t need to react to my feelings. For example, if I am angry, I don’t
need to snap. I can express my upset feelings appropriately and not deny it. Every day I
feel a variation of emotions. Like a song, poem or scene of a movie, I can observe my
feelings. I have come to love feelings.
I connect with my authentic self… artistic, sensitive, curious, compassionate, an explorer
of life, a capacity for love and adventure… I no longer need to escape my feelings by using
substances, people and fantasy to feel power. I have power in my life by connecting to my
emotions and realizing their beauty. I have discovered my beauty by accepting my scars
and healing my shame.
Above all else, I live in the moment. There is no need to feel the past or create an artificial
feeling of the future. The now is a beautiful moment to experience, no matter what I am
feeling.
Scott is a veteran film and TV writer/producer who has adapted
many books for the big screen and currently has a few books in
pre-production for adaptations. Scott recently completed a groundbreaking
ten episode series for NETFLIX titled FIRE CHASERS,
which will give audiences an unprecedented look deep inside
California wildfires. He also recently produced JANE GOT A GUN,
starring Natalie Portman, THE LINCOLN LAWYER, LOVE IN THE
TIME OF CHOLERA, CHEF, starring Jon Favreau, the Golden
Globe winning EMPIRE FALLS and top-rated TV show LAS VEGAS.
Aside from this, Scott has been in recovery for over 30 years
and has been helping people in Hollywood ever since. During this
time he’s learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t work in
addiction and recovery. He has now put together a team of the top
scientists, doctors and therapists in the field of addiction and recovery
to transform the programs that have been used for decades in
order to produce new and better results to help people.