Time goes slowly when one lacks meaning as well.

— Dr. David Pincus

psychology. 1 note. 4 years ago

Be Passionately Patient.

Aaron Ben-Zeév

psychology. 1 note. 4 years ago

put it in a box, and put it in a closet.
달리 어찌 해결할 방도가 없는 문제에 대한, 감당하기 힘든 감정적 스트레스에 직면했을 때 유효한 Bree(Desperate Housewives)의 대처법이다. 관련된 기억과 감정들을 모두 이렇게 박스에 쓸어담은 후 깊숙한 곳에 숨겨두고 절대 열어보지 않는다. 건강한 방법은 아니지만, 다른 주어진 일들을 우선 처리하면서 큰 무리 없이 일상 생활을 지속할 수 있게 해준다.

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put it in a box, and put it in a closet.

달리 어찌 해결할 방도가 없는 문제에 대한, 감당하기 힘든 감정적 스트레스에 직면했을 때 유효한 Bree(Desperate Housewives)의 대처법이다. 관련된 기억과 감정들을 모두 이렇게 박스에 쓸어담은 후 깊숙한 곳에 숨겨두고 절대 열어보지 않는다. 건강한 방법은 아니지만, 다른 주어진 일들을 우선 처리하면서 큰 무리 없이 일상 생활을 지속할 수 있게 해준다.

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psychology. TVshow. 4 years ago

Flow - Wikipedia

Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following as accompanying an experience of flow:

  1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one’s skill set and abilities).
  2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
  3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
  4. Distorted sense of time, one’s subjective experience of time is altered.
  5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).
  6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).
  7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
  8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.
  9. People become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself, action awareness merging.

book. psychology. flow. 4 years ago

Forgiving, however, does not mean letting the guilty party off the hook. “It’s not excusing or forgetting—it’s giving up resentment that you’re entitled to,” explains Enright. The paradox, he says, is that “by giving this gift to the other, it is the gift-giver who becomes psychologically healed.

Psychology Today: Serious stuff or fluff?

psychology. relationship. 4 years ago