The Stress/Anxiety Prone Personality, Get a Grip, Part 4

The Stress/Anxiety Prone Personality, Get a Grip, Part 4

To catch up: The Banquet of Consequences; The Self Inflicted Pizza Bomb; Things to Do, People to Annoy

Dateline: Dateline: the Big Thicket State Forest. Really. I can promise that this retreat spot is “big,” because there is no Starbucks within reasonable driving distance. Pizza delivery is but a distant dream. It’s a “thicket,” because I’m surrounded by tall trees spewing allergens in a bonfire pattern. (Kind reader, as you might suspect, this wasn’t my idea and this will not be the last you hear of this weekend of terror.)

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Love and Stress in Las Vegas, A Soap Opera in Four Parts

Dateline: Las Vegas Hilton Branch Office and Showgirl Headquarters, no one under six foot need apply. Which is the only thing holding me back from making money on my looks and high kick skills and why I am sequestered in the furthest booth in the Grand Buffet Hall. Yep, that’s me. The be-speckled blond chick in the over-stuffed cargo shorts behind the computer and the foot-high pile of shrimp shells.

Have you ever gotten high? …because someone gave you a compliment?

Have you ever given up a dream? … because someone else thought it was a dumb idea?

Have you ever said you enjoyed an activity? …to keep someone More >

The Intoxicated Babysitter and the Third Graders at the Renaissance Hotel

Dateline: Chili’s bar, Little League World Series Final. These kids are great fun.

What was your first thought when seeing the two boys in the pool. Was it, where were their parents? Not that the question is a bad one, just not the only one.t was your level of fear seeing pic? Remember herding sheep in other countries. The swimmers do look a bit younger than the third graders in the situation below.

Okay, one more shot at James Arthur Ray, then I’ll let him go. Maybe. The sweat lodge situation is just such a good More >

Last Mexico Tourist Standing, Anxiety, Part Two

Stress to the Max, The Togetherness Force in Mexico City Traffic and How It Can Get You Killed

Dateline: The outer reaches of a traffic circle on the magnificent including impaired health. Whether or good or bad depends on whether driven by emotions or thinking.

What does the great leader of the Aztecs, Moctezuma have to do with the togetherness force and the individuality force? Well, he did lose touch with what he believed…when he was awed by the horses, the guns, and the facial hair of Hernán Cortés. Some kind of rock star worship, I guess. Allowing the conqueror to take over his More >

Stress and Doing Your Own Thinking

Immediate Stress Relief: Join a Gang

Dateline: Stress in a New Mexico Maximum Security Prison, via television.

Where would any of us end up if–during those needy barely adolescent years—we had no sense of self and no sense of a future? And we were offered both for the mere orice of turning our thinking over to a group, a gang in this case. (Instead of say, the military, where the leaders, at least, have to answer to someone?)

“In October of 2009 :: James Arthur Ray’s $10,000 per head Spiritual Warrior seminar ended in calamity and tragedy. Three people were killed :: eighteen injured {many seriously} More >

Stress and Ladies’ Room Etiquette

Dateline: Ladies’ room. Big Rig Stress Management Truck Stop, Sonora, Texas.

More thoughts on anxiety and fusion, that is, when the “togetherness force,” the push to go along with the group is winning over the “individuality force,” the push to operate separately from the emotional preference of the group.

The stress level in the ladies’ room at the Big Rig Truck Stop wasn’t as intense as the stress in the sweat lodge of James Arthur Ray’s “warrior” training exercise, but the bathroom was crowded. We’re talking August in Texas so maybe the atmosphere was more like the sweat lodge More >

Whew! No more Stress. Good Thing You and I Aren’t Like THOSE Nutballs!

Whew! Good Thing You and I Aren’t Like Those Nutballs!

Anxiety Can Make You Crazy

Stress Set-up No.#1: Three people die in sweat lodge ritual in Arizona after ‘group think’ decision to stay inside.

Stress Set-up No.#2: Sixty people are in a four-engined charter plane, twenty minutes south out of Las Vegas. The windows on the right side of the plane are coated with black oil. Now we have three engines…now two. Say what? Fire, you say?…We’ll come back to that horrifying afternoon when I, along with the other passengers, had to decide to ignore fear and do as the wild bush pilot said…or make More >

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