Frances Moore Lappe-author of the million-selling Diet for a Small Planet-and Jeffrey Perkins offer the radical notion that our fears can be a source of energy to create the lives and the world we want. Now more than ever, it seems, our lives and the lives of our loved ones are at risk. Our normal response is to retreat. But what if fear were not a negative force but a positive one-a source of energy and strength' Sharing their own intimate journeys with fear, as well as the experiences of others, the authors offer seven liberating notions that can help unleash your power to walk into the unknown and create a more fulfilling, authentic life.
How do human emotions arise, what functions do they serve, what is their evolutionary background, how do they relate to behaviour and the brain? These questions are put, and answered, in relation to the emotion of fear in this, the second edition of professor Gray's extremely well known book, first published in 1971. In this edition, the text has been extensively modified and brought up-to-date, but the book maintains the style and general argument of the first edition. The author's approach in this book is from a biological standpoint; he emphasises the evidence that has accumulated from experiments by psychologists, ethologists, physiologists and endocrinologists. Although a lot of this evidence has been obtained from animal studies, it throws light on the psychology and physiology of fear in Man. Differences between individuals in their susceptibility to fear are treated with as much attention as the common factors are.
In a pioneering work, Jeffrey Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as “backward” relative to the U.S. and uncovers an autonomous and sophisticated German managerial tradition. Beginning with founder August Thyssen—the Andrew Carnegie of Germany—Fear traces the evolution of management inside the Thyssen-Konzern and the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) between 1871 and 1934. Fear focuses on the organization and internal dynamics of the company. He demonstrates that initiatives often flowed from middle managers, rather than from the top down. Shattering stereotypes of the overly bureaucratic and rigid German firm, Fear portrays a decentralized and flexible system that underscores the dynamic and entrepreneurial nature of German business. He fundamentally revises the scholarship on Alexander Gerschenkron and Germany’s Sonderweg, and critiques Max Weber’s concept of the corporation and capital accounting. He develops a loosely coupled relationship among enterprise strategy, organization, the structure of responsibility, and its accounting system, which links information, knowledge, and power inside the firm. This method of organizing control is central to understanding corporate governance. Original and provocative, this work will generate much debate among historians, organizational theorists, and management and accounting scholars.
Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown provides parents with useful suggestions for teaching children how to channel their own imaginations to calm their fears and banish the bogeyman! The childhood years are fraught with situations that bring about fear and apprehension in children, whether it's a visit to the doctor or merely going to bed at night. In this simple guide, Dr. Brown explains the essential techniques of Imagination Training, an innovative method of using a child's own vivid imagination as a coping mechanism to reduce both physical and emotional discomforts. He offers age-appropriate solutions to a wide range of childhood situations, including "The Magic Glove" to alleviate a toddler's fear of a doctor's needle and "The Takealong Hero" to address a youngster's more complex anxiety about starting school or overcoming shyness in social situations. Whatever the situation, Imagination Training can help your child to: -- cope with real or perceived fears -- improve self-confidence and performance at school and at play -- relieve physical and emotional stress and distress Along with Julie Davis, a regular contributor to parenting magazines, pediatrician Jeffrey L. Brown shows parents that the most powerful tool to help allay childhood fears and tears lies in a child's own imagination.
Descend into horror with witches, vampires, haunted houses, and murderous blood copies. Check out excerpts from four short works that will be going bump in the night in Fall 2017. A Long Day in Lychford by Paul Cornell, The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford, Switchback by Melissa F. Olson, and The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Drawing on techniques and perspectives from two seemingly different traditions, this second edition of the self-help classic Calming Your Anxious Mind offers you a powerful and profound approach to overcoming anxiety, fear, and panic. From the evidence-based tradition of Western medicine, learn the role your thoughts and emotions play in anxiety. And, from the tradition of meditation and the inquiry into meaning and purpose, discover your own potential for presence and stillness, kindness and compassion-and the tremendous power these states give you to heal and transform your life. Use this encouraging, step-by-step program to: Learn about the mechanism of anxiety and the body's fear system Develop a healing mindfulness practice-one breath at a time Start on the path to presence, stillness, compassion, and loving kindness Practice acceptance during mindfulness meditation Feel safe while opening up to fearful and anxious feelings This book is a welcome addition to the anxiety disorders field. Comprehensive as well as clearly written, it provides a wealth of information on the use of meditation and mindfulness practice in recover from anxiety difficulties.-Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D., author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook and Coping with Anxiety Dr. Brantley's book is clear and warm. It takes the mystery out of meditation and explains how things that at first sight appear 'ordinary' are in fact very important. His extensive clinical experience and his empathy constantly shine through the book.-Jonathan Davidson, MD, director of the Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program at Duke University I think the book is fantastic and believe it will fill an important niche in the treatment of anxiety disorders. The information on the physiology of anxiety and the stress response helps to demystify the symptoms for readers, making their problem seem more manageable. Beautifully guided meditations anticipate and address the questions that anxious new meditators will have. The instructions to stay present with the anxiety is powerful and healing. I know I will be recommending it to my patients and colleagues. Holly B. Rogers, MD, staff psychiatrist with Duke University Counseling and Psychological Services As a psychotherapist and teacher of stress reduction, I find this book helpful to clients and clinicians, as well as to meditators wishing to deepen their own practice. Brantley gives practical and compassionate guidance to anyone seeking skillful ways to work with anxiety and panic.
Use developments in neuroscience to rewire your brain and free yourself from the chains of anxiety, shyness, and panic attacks. If anxiety dictates the way you live your life and you are ready to make a change and take charge of your life, this book will help you overcome anxiety. Fear and the amygdala have been studied since the 1800s, with scientists making a connection between the two. Both the brain and fear are complex, and the studies continue today. It turns out the finding in the 1800s was true, and the amygdala does play a significant role in emotion known as fear. To complicate matters even more, fear is a state, and you can feel it to different degrees. These range from mild worry, anxiety, fear, and panic. However, not all of these are related to the amygdala, the first two, worry and anxiety are actually linked to the prefrontal cortex. This is a fairly new finding, but something that has been studied by neuroscientists ever since its discovery. Fear is an intense emotion that can take many different forms, including both anxiety and panic disorders. Even though they can both be debilitating, it is possible to use the brain's own fear response to rewire it. This is possible because over time the brain has been conditioned to react a certain way to both real and perceived threats. So, just as it learned to this the first time, it can learn to do it again, in a way that is not harmful. Fear takes two different paths in the brain, with different techniques that correspond with the two. So it is important to be knowledgeable about different brain functions and how to improve and develop them. This the key to releasing the grip fear has on you and your brain.
We all go through major life transitions--whether they take us by surprise or we take the leap and "make a shift" into unknown territory ourselves. Change is a basic part of life. Jobs change, lovers change, ideas change, people change. No matter how well thought out our “life plan” might be, life throws us a curve now and then. But, too often, we become overwhelmed by fear when faced with a new direction. We become stuck. This book fundamentally changes the way we cope with change.“Shift happens,” says psychologist and executive coach Dr. Jeffrey Hull, “and we all need to get better at dealing with it. Life is not a straight line ramp up to nirvana, as some self-help books would have us believe.” After working with thousands of individuals and executives at companies such as Booz Allen Hamilton, AT&T, MasterCard, HSBC and TD Ameritrade over a twenty-year career, researching both Western science and Eastern philosophy, and dealing with life crises of his own, Dr. Hull offers up what is missing from the majority of self-help books: a roadmap for navigating change and its faithful life partner, fear. “Having a program to support you through the throes of major change—and help to release the fear that accompanies it—can really make a difference,” Dr. Hull assures anyone facing a major (or minor) transition, regardless of age, lifestyle, or circumstances. In a down-to-earth inspirational style backed by real-life examples and action steps, SHIFT reveals: · Why the self-help industry's obsession with achieving “instant happiness” is a cultural fantasy that actually reinforces its opposite: distress; · Why endings—of jobs, relationships, life situations—are so difficult and how to make “starting over” easier, even FUN; · An innovative and practical way to understand life's inevitable cycles, by learning to navigate the six stages of every life shift: rupture, release, retreat, revival, rehearsal, and realization; · A radical new way of understanding personal growth—not as a quest for an elusive “authentic self” but as an evolving, creative story of continuous reinvention; and · How practices that integrate the body, the mind and the heart are key to true transformation, not just “changing your thoughts” or re-wiring your brain. Showing how to move through fear and accept change as something that happens for us and not to us, Shift is not another “quick fix, five steps to endless happiness” self-help book. With real-life case studies, useful diagnostics and down-to-earth practices, Dr. Jeffrey Hull offers a vital guide for everyone grappling with and reeling from our turbulent times.
In The Naked Crowd, acclaimed author Jeffrey Rosen makes an impassioned argument about how to preserve freedom, privacy, and security in a post-9/11 world. How we use emerging technologies, he insists, will be crucial to the preservation of essential American ideals. In our zeal to catch terrorists and prevent future catastrophic events, we are going too far—largely because of irrational fears—and violating essential American freedoms. That’s the contention at the center of this persuasive new polemic by Jeffrey Rosen, legal affairs editor of The New Republic, which builds on his award-winning book The Unwanted Gaze. Through wide-ranging reportage and cultural analysis, Rosen argues that it is possible to strike an effective and reasonable balance between liberty and security. Traveling from England to Silicon Valley, he offers a penetrating account of why well-designed laws and technologies have not always been adopted. Drawing on a broad range of sources—from the psychology of fear to the latest Code Orange alerts and airport security technologies—he also explores the reasons that the public, the legislatures, the courts, and technologists have made feel-good choices that give us the illusion of safety without actually making us safer. He describes the dangers of implementing poorly thought out technologies that can make us less free while distracting our attention from responses to terrorism that might work. Rosen also considers the social and technological reasons that the risk-averse democracies of the West continue to demand ever-increasing levels of personal exposure in a search for an illusory and emotional feeling of security. In Web logs, chat rooms, and reality TV shows, an increasing number of citizens clutter the public sphere with private revelations best kept to themselves. The result is the peculiar ordeal of living in the Naked Crowd, in which few aspects of our lives are immune from public scrutiny. With vivid prose and persuasive analysis, The Naked Crowd is both an urgent warning about the choices we face in responding to legitimate fears of terror and a vision for a better future.
There are many books out there that examine how to lose weight, how to make more money, or how to improve your relationships. In this uplifting examination of life, one answer is provided for any and all of life's problems: just relax, and allow the perfect solution to come forward. Insight is given as to how to feel better in your day-to-day experience, as well as explaining why it is never necessary to feel any type of negative emotion, be it anger, sadness, guilt, or fear. Do It With Feeling offers guidance in enabling you to create the life that you want, by changing the way that you think and feel. It will not only help you to achieve your goals more quickly, but more importantly, it will assist you in being happier along the way.
Panic attacks are extreme sensations of fear that overwhelm the individual. They affect nearly 10% of the population. The sufferer feels helpless and in doubt of their sanity.How to stop this nightmare?This book presents a concise and effective procedure to switch off the panic. The author, Jeffrey L. Hammes, provides a clear understanding of why panic occurs and reveals that having a panic attack is actually a perfectly normal reaction to stress that can befall anyone. Jeff is a scientist who spent over 20 years researching the way out from his own panic. He has been free of panic attacks for over 15 years. His method has helped thousands of people over the last decade through his free website, panicend.com.
You don't deal with the spirit of fear from the surface level; you deal with it from the root This is the more reason why the same fear keeps reoccurring after dealing with it. The world experienced a great fear a year ago because an incident led to so many weaknesses in people's fighting spirit that opened the door for the huge appearance of the spirit of fear Some negative thoughts and words lead to actions and reactions that open the door for the spirit of fear Most people deal with fear itself but they don't deal with the spirit. The spirit is the one that keeps producing the fears that put people in bondage, anxiety, confusion, keep people depressed and troubled. People ask questions like a) What causes fear? b) What actually is fear? c) Why do people experience fears? d) How do I identify my biggest fears? e) How do I face my worst fears? f) Ways to overcome fear? g) How to avoid fears? h) How does the spirit of fear operate? Answers to these questions and many more are contained in this book. The author Jeffrey explains in this book about the spirit of fear and how to deal with it, pointing out scriptures on how to overcome the spirit and prayer points to cast out the spirit from your life. This will help to save lives, marriages at the edge of break up, relationships, bringing out the hidden joy in you, and creating inner peace. Click on the Buy Button to get the kindle version or order for the paperback version. You have nothing to lose but many things to gain. Get a copy now
The real and potential power of China, the world's most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike. The Fear of Chinese Power provides a history of this perceived threat from the 1880s to the present day, and offers rich historical context to an enduring and current concern. Focusing on the United States, but also exploring perceptions from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan, this book asks why these fears exist and shows how they have played out on both a strategic, diplomatic level, and in the public sphere. Taking a chronological approach, the chapters explore themes such as western opposition to Chinese immigration, international views of China's new republic, hopes of friendship during the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek, the Korean and Cold Wars, Communist China's economic growth, the Chinese in popular culture and China as a modern global power. Taking economic, military and cultural vantage points into account, The Fear of Chinese Power explains why a powerful China has been a mainstay of the western imagination since the 19th century, and reveals a history which has shaped international perceptions of China to the present day.
The best-selling author of Calming Your Anxious Mind offers a wealth of daily mindfulness meditations you can use every day to manage chronic anxiety, restore calm, and feel at peace.
Have you ever not done something because you were afraid to try?Have you ever had feelings of not being adequate?Do you find that you engage in self-sabotage, to make sure things don't work out? Have you experienced fear of failure or fear of success?Do you feel that life has burdened you with obstacles you can't overcome?Fear is a bully, and needs to be confronted. It will try and keep you from achieving your goals by telling you limiting thoughts about yourself that aren't true.The problem is that all too often we believe that negative voice that comes from your subconscious mind, but the important thing to know is that your subconscious mind does not know the difference between fact and fiction. It believes whatever you tell it!So if you tell your mind you're a winner that's what you will draw into your life. Conversely if you tell it you're a loser, you will draw THAT into your life. It's the power behind "The Power of Positive Thinking!"In the case of the author of this book, the second of his motivational and inspirational books, Dr. Gurian had to fight fear on a daily basis to overcome many obstacles in his own life, when his fear told him he would never accomplish anything. Besides stuttering, he faced obstacles like severe learning disabilities, Meniere's syndrome, a sleep disorder, depression, feelings of inferiority, the pain of divorce, a heart attack, fear of traveling, Covid 19 double pneumonia, and more. In this book you will learn:?How to overcome the fear that's been stopping you from achieving your goals.?How to examine your thinking and find the thoughts that are holding you back.?How to see if you are engaging in self-sabotage.?How to reprogram your mind to think positively.?How to challenge yourself to confront things that make you uncomfortable.?How to find and release negative thoughts you may be holding about yourself.?How to stay positive when it seems that nothing is going right.
Darkness and Fear Have you ever waken up at night and thought that you saw something moving just a split second before your eyes focused? Have you ever wondered why so many people are afraid of the dark? Are you afraid of what you can't see? Darkness tends to do that. Fear can be a powerful thing, causing us to either cringe in submission or to flee in flight. What if the darkness took the shape of something that we didn't fear. Causes Would we have the wisdom to see what it truly was? Or would we just blindly follow it down the path of... Destruction The end result of following darkness is death. By following something that usually hides in the shadows, we in turn become soiled and lost. What would you do if you were the Leotiens?
Shyness often helps protect us from the judgments and resentments of others, but once you get in the habit of avoiding social situations, you can become stuck in a cycle of avoidance that can be difficult to escape. Ready to let go of shyness and make stronger connections with others? The Mindful Path Through Shyness shows you how. This guide uses techniques from mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive behavioral therapy to help you cultivate awareness of your own thoughts so that you can act with more wisdom and compassion toward yourself. Over time, you will be able to free yourself of the old mental habits of self-consciousness and self-blame, and replace them with new habits that foster confidence and joy. A heartfelt and practical guide to... transforming one's relationship to social fears and inhibitions. -Zindel V. Segal, Ph.D., author of The Mindful Way Through Depression
When justice fails I take charge and bring justice into my own hands. If you are a criminal run and hope I never get you. Prison is the safest place but they are full since I started this new job with the help of my friends. A woman crime reporter that gives me my information and a homeless war vet. Between the three of us crime is on the run. Violence brings violence and that is just one of the tools I use. Fear is my best friend and works very well as the criminals are turning them self into prison thinking they will be safe but they get the surprise of their lives when there is no where to hide.
How do human emotions arise, what functions do they serve, what is their evolutionary background, how do they relate to behaviour and the brain? These questions are put, and answered, in relation to the emotion of fear in this, the second edition of professor Gray's extremely well known book, first published in 1971. In this edition, the text has been extensively modified and brought up-to-date, but the book maintains the style and general argument of the first edition. The author's approach in this book is from a biological standpoint; he emphasises the evidence that has accumulated from experiments by psychologists, ethologists, physiologists and endocrinologists. Although a lot of this evidence has been obtained from animal studies, it throws light on the psychology and physiology of fear in Man. Differences between individuals in their susceptibility to fear are treated with as much attention as the common factors are.
Why do so many people suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous angst? Some twenty percent of us are afflicted with common Anxiety and Depressive disorders. That's not just nervous or scared or sad - that is painful dysfunction without obvious benefit. A new theoretical synthesis suggests that while animals share a set of evolved social instincts, we humans experience commonplace Anxiety and Depressive disorders when we use our reason to defy that biology.
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