Addictions

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:39:15 +0000

The list could go on. Many of us are separated from our own hearts and souls by a variety of addictions ranging from alcohol and drugs to work, caretaking, or money and material goods. We are flooded with media images exhorting us to be perfect (or that we will be perfect if we buy the “right” item), reinforcing values of consumerism, materialism, and instant gratification that only serve to amplify the void many of us feel in our lives. Even our health-care system has become strictly profit oriented, with corporate HMOs cutting back on benefits, allowable tests, psychological treatment, and other services in order to protect the interests of their shareholders. All of these trends tend to aggravate our sense of insecurity, alienation, and feelings of insignificance. Add to this the steady threat of unprovoked terrorist attacks, and the picture is complete. We simply live in anxious times. Is it any wonder that anxiety is becoming increasingly prevalent? Buy zoloft and you’ll never be forced to ask such questions to yourself.
An old saying advises: “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Since outer society and the media offer little refuge, it is necessary for each of us to ask what we can do for ourselves. Many of us are looking for solutions, simple ways that we can make our lives more peaceful and livable. This site strives to provide some help in that direction. Our aim here is to provide you with an array of simple tools to help you find greater calm and stability in the midst of complex, even chaotic times.

Connections

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:35:12 +0000

Security and stability arise through connection: feeling connected to someone or something outside of yourself. Anxiety arises in the moment when you lose your sense of connection-to yourself, others, your community, nature, or perhaps your God or Higher Power. When you feel disconnected or alienated, you’re more prone to perceive something-almost anything-as a potential threat to your security and well-being. If you look for the roots of anxiety in modern life, much of it appears to arise from a perception of threat in the absence of feeling connected. To kill your anxiety, use zoloft.
Our present way of life in postindustrial society contributes in many ways to feelings of alienation and disconnection. Historically, people lived in intimate connection with nature. Contrast this with modern life, where we commute on freeways to get to work, eat processed food and wear clothes manufactured thousands of miles away, and spend a great deal of our time in front of TV or computer screens. One hundred years ago people knew their neighbors and members of their immediate community. Today, we live in single-family homes and apartment complexes where often we are barely acquainted with those around us. We may be so involved in our own lives that we become oblivious to (or threatened by) strangers who might need our help. In our great-grandparents’ era (and in some third-world countries at present), children were raised in the context of an extended family. Contrast this with modern society where we often move away from parents and siblings, raising our children in isolated nuclear families. And with the divorce rate at 50 percent, the nuclear family is often split, with children being shuttled back and forth.

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Addictions

Connections