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2019.10.31 Serotonin makes you dominant because it makes you less irritable

The desire to dominate is not power but less irritability and therefore willingness to pursue goals. Affective neuoscientists see the continuity of emotions through the connection of animals to man.

See: Panksepp, Affective neuroscience

see 42.17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZYQpge1W5s

2019.10.30 What have we learned from internet, from “media’?

As experimental inquiry ongoing with youth. Trust human potential to derive operational truth from experience; and, in friendship, share truth ungrudgingly with one another. The truth is that it is easy to antagonize some people and people lie, it is good to have friends.
These simple truths each generation needs to learn.

2019.10.25 So nasal breathing is a simple first step to more complex learning

Only nasal breathing infuses each breath with nitric oxide, a free radical that kills germs, and dilates the blood vessels which promotes relaxed feelings. It is a core strategy that coupled with the will to achieve something important to the individual guarantees improved performance and understanding.

2019.10.21 Relaxed learning

The Inner Game theory of relaxed performance demonstrates that the highest potential performance is often achieved by allowing the self freedom to fail, thereby heightening the ability to succeed when pressure of performance is lessened and feedback on performance becomes holistic and self regulating. This idea is akin to the Zen mind where the focus on nothingness allows comprehension of reality in ways that are closed to the mind which seeks answers in panic.

2019.10.16 Working with clients

Essentials of treatment: in every session

1. Find out the goals of the client for this session.
2. Develop rapport for the session
3. Make interesting what ever you make as suggestions to improve their lives, that is, the suggestion must be: easy to comprehend, easy to do, demonstrably effective in the moment, and must lead to the client seeing improvement toward their goal.
4. Use your brand as a gatekeeping mechanism to select those clients most effectively treatable by you.

2019.10.13 Achieving our clients goals

Achieving our client' goals is the bench mark of success in every service field. Personality may be the vehicle of delivery but the achievement of what the client came for is what keeps the client coming back.

We do not need to know 'how successful' by any other standard than the regular presence of the client when the client is in need.

2019.10.13 Capitalism Origins

Humanity agreed to have stability and guarantee of resources. https://phys.org/news/2019-10-private-property-productivity-precipitated...

2019.10.04 Acceptance and utilization of self

Breathing and relaxation techniques for the anxious male is more than accepting who you are, it is about utilizing who you are to achieve stability, peace of mind, safety and advancement of a career.

2019.10.02 What is anxiety?

The highly sensitive person is always in a state of agitation, which when properly trained, is enthusiasm.

2019.10.02 Paradox of interventions

What makes an intervention succeed is autonomy

2019.09.28 Where does art come from?

Art comes from fear, love and anger, as does language

Fear of stronger agencies, both people and government,

love of self, one another, concepts, family

anger at oppression, loss of love, life and liberty

2019.09.24 Why Cash Transfer Programs Fail

Conditional cash transfer implies debt, moral psychological

2019.09.16 Amygdala and fear

Anatomy of the Temporal Lobe, J. A. Kiernan. (Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Volume 2012, Article ID 176157, 12 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/176157
"Electrical stimulation of the human amygdala causes feelings of fear. In laboratory animals, such stimulation leads to autonomic and other behavioural responses associated with fear"

2019.09.13 PTSD, Locked on Shock

(Editor: this picture of a bell curve is a place holder that will be replaced with a more detailed bell curve illustrating standard deviations, which are the values in the equations below.)

2019.09.10 Conditional Cash Transfers

From: What are the economic impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes? A systematic review of the evidence, 2012, Naila Kabeer

(Underlining and italics in this summary were done by Robert Marek, not the author, and reflect the opinions of this reviewer, his comments are noted as such.)

Here is the article:

2019.09.09 Pre-verbal trauma

Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females

Kim Steven Betts, Gail M. Williams, Jacob M. Najmanb; William Borc; Rosa Alatiad

2019.09.06 addiction and the amygdala

Higher power is what is more important to be than the addiction

The amygdala creates a sense of urgency. Real feelings shaking us.

2019.08.31 Marriage Counseling

Marriage counseling is about making the relationship healthy. Healthy is about not being anxious in communication.

2019.08.31 The Value of Concentration

Some of the great coaches equate relaxation with the ability to concentrate. It seems concentration is ideal as a state of mind for accomplishment of a goal. The fundamentals of concentration are being rested, having practiced the skills of performance to a high degree and having a goal.

See Bud Winter, Relax and Win

I believe that for some highly anxious people, breathing comfortably is a fundamental skill.

2019.08.30 Anxiety and Social Work, Early Morning Thoughts

Interesting title as Anxiety is a leading cause of discomfort and incapacity in clients as well as the hungry beast in the daily agenda of causes that are espoused as worthy of Social Work attention and action.

2019.08.28 the three domains of social work

Three domains exist because we, the sw, connect with people differentially. The core of social work is the professional growth of philanthropy. Philanthropic feelings need refinement if caring for the welfare of individuals as they must function in a social environment.

2019.08.27 if anxiety is so bad, why are so many people nervous?

Statistics
Religion as cure
Drugs as cure
Pills as cure

2019.08.25 The Amygdala

The amygdala is a two almond shaped organ in the brain that does damage control without thinking.

2019.08.21 Marijuana education

Cannabinoid receptors. Wainscoting event. Purpose cannabinoid receptors, The bypassing of significance appreciation and planning. Cannabis is a parasite on humanity.

2019,08.12 What is a brown study?

In one of the short stories about Sherlock Holmes, the author describes a client of Sherlock as going into a ‘brown study’

2019-08-11 The Credit Union

Wouldn't it be great to be able to loan money to C1 for a car, anxiety and physical health impacted by losses; potential for sustainable financial stability improved by having a reliable vehicle.

Or, C2 whose financial worries are exponentially compounded by emotional losses and poor self regard. Wouldn't it be great to offer her down payment for rent.

The need to help people is real, most can pay it back on a graduated scale. Some cannot pay it back and wouldn't it nice to be make a cash transfer directly to the vendor of the client's needed service.

2019.07.17 Combine EMDR and DBT for growth

EMDR is like hypnosis, leaving a cavity of missing negative feeling, but a feeling it was nonetheless. How to instill joy of life in its place? Remove fear, you said. Again, this is a removal of feeling trapped, a good thing in itself but not more than an instillation of hope and support for future action. Respecting and enlarging their 'Purpose' in life may be useful to having an interactive life in a community, you say. So, let us make sure we understand what the person sees as their purpose before removal of a negative emotion/memory.

2019.05.27 What is health?

What is the health that I as a Professional Social Worker want for my clients?
It is seen in their autonomy and ability to nurture others. Health is not static nor isolated to an individual.

Community is given and bestowed person to person.

2019.05.10 The art of social work

To intrude, without being intrusive
To help without becoming needed

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