PSY100H1 Lecture : PSY100 - Thinking
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Brand new ancient wisdom: you have more control than you think. recently, field of psychology increasing interest in ancient practices of consciousness control and improvement. e. h. meditation; brain changes (eg pfc) and mindfulness (e. g. anxiety, depression, pain, stress, emotional reactivity, executive function) discrepancy-based: comparing self to others to standards of comparison; eg goals, perception of others: good or bad, closer/further, right/wrong, like/dislike, cool/not cool, hot/not, interesting/not,t t rustworthy/not. Focused on past (regret, guilt, memories, failure) or future (worry, fear, hope, planning, goals, dream) problem solving: problem, need to understand so fix it (eg not happy, what"s wrong, once figure it out, be okay . ) Thinking; constant thinking, relentless and incessant, always chattering in cacophony of voices, train of thought ends then mind in other things, skipping from though to thought. open, non-evaluative, non-reactive present-moment focus of attention. Link with well-being; good things come, bad things come .
