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Floop
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Is love the answer to anxiety?
#6360116 - 12/12/06 02:31 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I just typed up a whole story, but really, I just don't know, so: What do you think?
-------------------- "The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men." -Albert Einstein
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: Floop]
#6360119 - 12/12/06 02:34 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Floop said: I just typed up a whole story, but really, I just don't know, so: What do you think?
way too general mate. There have been volumes written on love, and there have been volumes written on anxiety, however, i do not know about the correlation between the two.
more details!
-------------------- Annnnnnd I had a light saber and my friend was there and I said "you look like an indian" and he said "you look like satan" and he found a stick and a rock and he named the rock ooga booga and he named the stick Stick and we both thought that was pretty funny. We got eaten alive by mosquitos but didn't notice til the next day. I stepped on some glass while wading in the swamp and cut my foot open, didn't bother me til the next day either....yeah it was a good time, ended the night by buying some liquor for minors and drinking nips and going to he diner and eating chicken fingers, and then I went home and went to bed.
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: Floop]
#6360122 - 12/12/06 02:34 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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No. Success or Failure would be the two most likely options. Love? The hell ya thinking, man?
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: nunciate]
#6360180 - 12/12/06 02:59 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Im sorry, Im somewhat altered at the moment.
It just that, I think especially people who trip are conscious of what anxiety is. Like fear for rejection, people who have anxiety in situations where there's nothing to fear, yet they're afraid because their evil stephmother was so mean to them that there natural reaction became fear. People that hate foreigners because they fear them.. That kind of anxiety...
you can alleviate it for a moment with a pill which some company makes a profit of, you can be angry about it trying to force it out of you, hell some people even automutilate themselves. But it all doesn't seem to work for the long haul.
Maybe it's just really simple, and love for yourself, nature, and other human beings is the answer. Perhaps that will stop people to continue with their childish arguments and fights over nothing out of anxiety.
Wtf, im a fucking hippie
nevermind peace :P
-------------------- "The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men." -Albert Einstein
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: Floop]
#6360274 - 12/12/06 03:46 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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If I'm anxious, I make love. Usually helps, especially since exam time is coming around.
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: Floop]
#6360285 - 12/12/06 03:55 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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WHat if the anxiety is a physical problem with syntoms like shaking.
I can certainly see someone loving yet anxious, in fact it's very common.
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: MAGnum]
#6360299 - 12/12/06 04:07 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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No, dude, I mean, to calm me down, I have sex. That's all.
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: Floop]
#6360308 - 12/12/06 04:21 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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ah dont worry about it we're all fuckin hippies haha i think it just depends who you are, but i'd say probably!!
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: Floop]
#6360590 - 12/12/06 08:48 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I think the resolution for anxiety is acceptance. It involves full breaths and becoming aware of one's thought processes. Reality will unfold as it will and we will act in the best manner towards what we wish to achieve, and, beyond that, what more could you expect?
Anxiety is an attempt to control a situation that one feels uncomfortable in, perhaps? It isn't an effective one, as feeling anxious gets in the way of consciousness, which is always great to have on your side.
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If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: nunciate]
#6363455 - 12/12/06 07:39 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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nunciate said: No. Success or Failure would be the two most likely options. Love? The hell ya thinking, man?
But you're being so... so, Adlerian in your response. Social Interest and Will to Power, inferiority vs. superiority is not the constellation of motive-energy that characterizes my personality. I can and do operate on this very dichotomized level, but it is certainly not representative of Me for the most part. Why shame the poster into thinking there is something wrong with "love" being the answer? Love in the sense of altruism or Compassion overcomes fear and anxiety. The Buddha sitting with right palm out symbolizes fearlessness. The New Testament says "True love casts out all fear." Love (Compassion) embodies detachment even from one's own psychophysical anxiety because anxiety is an enemy of the psychosomatic self (mind-body), not the spiritual self which is Compassion itself. Love-Compassion transcends anxiety leaving it behind.
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And Don Juan sez: A path with heart is all that matters. 
I can think of sooo many things that are more likely to create suffering than believing love is the answer. Yet it's important to continue to explore and challenge your own ideas.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Is love the answer to anxiety? [Re: fireworks_god]
#6366050 - 12/13/06 01:13 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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fireworks_god said: I think the resolution for anxiety is acceptance. It involves full breaths and becoming aware of one's thought processes. Reality will unfold as it will and we will act in the best manner towards what we wish to achieve, and, beyond that, what more could you expect?
Anxiety is an attempt to control a situation that one feels uncomfortable in, perhaps? It isn't an effective one, as feeling anxious gets in the way of consciousness, which is always great to have on your side.
That's interesting. This is something Ive been experiencing myself lately. Im so much more aware ever since I started practicing meditation daily. I start noticing it when desires start creeping up, causing emotions on which I then would normally act. But now I can decide how to act when I feel the desire coming up in a way that is appropiate for the situation. But by accepting, you mean accepting that you can't satisfy those desires? Somewhat like 'letting go'? If so, I have to agree 
As for anxiety being an attempt to control uncomfortable situations. Isnt it more so that the anxiety is the result of a attempt to control a situation? Or a result of the unability to control a situation you desire to control. I geuss it comes down to the same thing, accepting situations you can not control will prevent anxiety.. I'll keep that in mind Thank you
-------------------- "The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men." -Albert Einstein
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