For many years, I have felt a certainty that I will continue beyond physical death.
95% of the time, this comforts me, and I rely on it in times of thoughts of death.
Sometimes, though, my mind decides to play devil’s advocate, and I think about the alternative.
The pleasant reality is that I have come to appreciate [...]
On Dying
Controlling Your Emotions Through Expression
It was a few weeks ago when wallowing in one of my longer-lasting emotional valleys that I suddenly remembered something that had vaguely caught my interest a couple years back in Bio Psych class. It was about the James-Lange theory. (Here’s a synopsis of it: http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/james_lange_emotion.htm
Common View:
Scary Happening ——-> [...]
