Post by Ava on Sept 5, 2018 12:56:11 GMT
@astrokeen , you are a treasure trove of valuable information -- thank you.
Yes, this article is helping me sort things out and gain perspective. Just immersing myself in psychology lingo feels healthy and reassuring, especially now with the sun transiting in Virgo, trine my sun. It's nice to know that certain universal problems are being closely observed and tended to.
The article is dense so I'm working through it bit by bit.
I wonder, to what extent does this apply to me?
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Yes, this article is helping me sort things out and gain perspective. Just immersing myself in psychology lingo feels healthy and reassuring, especially now with the sun transiting in Virgo, trine my sun. It's nice to know that certain universal problems are being closely observed and tended to.
The article is dense so I'm working through it bit by bit.
I wonder, to what extent does this apply to me?
In his paper on mindfulness and psychological processes, Williams (2010) describes how, in depression, low mood can trigger a host of mental simulations or narratives which are then treated as real threats and real losses by primitive neural pathways in the brain. The difficulty then arises when the mode of processing which is applied in order to work with these mental simulations or narratives is the ‘doing’ mode of mind. This is a mode of mind which essentially tries to ‘solve’ the emotional problem by bringing in memories about the past and images about the future and setting goals in order to help find a solution. However, while this ‘doing mode’ is a useful and vital strategy for many day to day tasks, such as getting from A to B, when applied to mental events, it serves only to increase levels of rumination or suppression and increases a sense of helplessness and distress, as well as reducing attentional capacity.
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