Author: clarity
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How to stop caring what people think
Several sources say, “Don’t care what people think” but that can be easier said than done. This can be especially difficult when the opinion comes from someone with authority or someone who has attributes that you or society deems “successful,” like money, status, looks, etc. At Clarity we call these idealized people or groups. Some people…
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Why Am I Feeling Anxious For No Reason?
We may sometimes say, “I don’t know why I’m anxious, “or I don’t know why I got anxious”, but let’s think about that. You either get anxious for no reason, or get anxious for a reason. You may also think that things make you anxious, but if things have the power to make us (humans)…
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How to control your emotions
The answer Behind this question is the probable desire to prevent yourself from being emotionally triggered when you don’t want to be. To achieve you must first understand: You have a particular way of thinking and beliefs–a way of being. Because of your current state of beliefs and thinking, there are certain stimuli in this world that trigger…
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Why it feels like we can’t control our emotions
Another way to put this: Why does it feel like anxiety/negative emotions take over or just happens to us against our will? This post answers why emotions seem to take over us against our will with book excerpts from a psychotherapist named Frank Mosca and a best-selling emotional intelligence author we’ve studied named Barry Neil…
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The Root Cause of Negative Emotions
It begins with a radical departure from everything we’ve been taught. Many of us have heard of the popular psychological model of stimulus-response. The dog barks, I get scared. My friend compliments me, I feel happy. This model has helped spawn a culture where we see our emotions and experiences as being caused by people…
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MDs, psychologists, stoics, and best-selling emotional intelligence authors who’ve clinically validated that anxiety is caused by beliefs
Note: These individuals have validated through research and their line of work that all negative emotions are caused by beliefs (often unconscious). Marcus Aurelius has stated that it isn’t external things and events that upset us but rather our judgments about those things. I argue that a judgment is based on one’s belief system. It…
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How to stop negative thoughts
You’ll know how to get rid of negative thoughts once you know where they come from which is our unconscious and conscious beliefs. We breakdown why below. Where do negative thoughts come? We can answer this question with reason: Some of you may have had times when you thought of doing something and immediately felt…