Emotional Health & Creative People

"Different people have varied emotional responses to the same stimulus.”

Why do we experience troubling, disrupting, and often self-limiting, emotions, for example anxiety, and what can we do about them?

"Have you ever watched one of those holiday movies where everything is ideal? The holiday decorations to the festive dinner look picture perfect. Everyone is feeling cheery...

"Yet not everyone will feel overwhelmingly jolly during the holidays. There are different degrees of happiness that we may feel — and we won’t always have uplifting moments at the exact same time as others.

Danielle Panabaker cautions, “You’d be surprised how many people are headed in the wrong direction [in Hollywood] and it makes me very sad to see these people with so much potential at such young ages getting involved in things that they should not be getting involved in.

“I try to surround myself with people who won’t encourage me to do bad things but people change and I’ve lost friendships because of it, because of decisions people have made.

“I prefer to be safe and healthy..."

"My choices seemed clear – I could either keep pushing through and endure the pain of fear and anxiety or I could settle for wanting less of me and of life. Somehow settling for a smaller life didn’t feel right in my soul." Mary Ayers, PhD about Tapping - #‎anxietyrelief -

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Highly sensitive individuals make up 20 to 30 percent of the population. They “experience things more intensely, and therefore have had more difficulties learning to manage emotions because they become so overwhelmed by them.”

We may have learned to cover up much of our inner life, but to be more fully alive and creative, it can help to understand and stay in charge of our feelings.

Meditation can provide emotional renewal and other values: it is being used in companies such as Google, for personal growth and achievement.

One person quoted in the article: Anderson Cooper on doing a 60 Minutes story on his experiences in a meditation retreat and learning about mindfulness training: “I realized…this is exactly what I need.”

“Avoiding the shadow of solitude, we avoid our essence and our core. All things that grow begin in darkness. Seeds find nourishment in the dark. All the things that matter most — creativity, love, inspiration, deep work, and spiritual awakening, require the dark earth of solitude to take root. And this practice can be cultivated.”

- Author and teacher Mark Matousek

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British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing led a group of other brilliant codebreakers, including Joan Clarke, at Bletchley Park outside London during WWII to crack the German’s Enigma code.

Trauma takes many forms, and has different sources and levels of impact. Alan Cumming details his early life with an abusive father, and its consequences.