Depressed and anxious individuals lack a healthy reation in patterns of behavior. This rigidity in mind, body and behavior creates a self perpetuating feedback loop. To escape the downward spiral of depression and anxiety necessitates a broadening of attentional faculties. The imaginative exercise of inhabiting a number of points of view is required. Lear n more about our membership, access transcripts and the art we use in the vidios by visiting academy of ideas dot com.
“Attention is not just another cognitive function. Attention is how our world comes into being for us. The altered nature of attention can appear to abolish parts of the world, collapse time and space [and] eviscerate emotion. . .It is a profoundly moral act.” Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things As was explored in […]
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Anxiety and Depression – A Retreat into a Constricted World first appeared on
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