Sunday, Oct 26, 2008
While the world crashes keep cool and plan for the future
NY Times: How to Quell Financial Anxiety
Sticking to my resolution to stop posting only doom and gloom, here is a post on controlling anxiety in the face of economic armageddon.
"Q. Day after day of economic turmoil is making it hard for you to concentrate on your work. You can’t stop worrying about your job security, your retirement portfolio and your whole future. Is this normal?
A. It’s only natural to feel anxious during a financial crisis. But understand that anxiety can distort reality, disrupt thinking and erode performance — unless you take steps to manage it...Yoga, meditation, exercising or simply taking a walk can help dispel symptoms, Dr. White said. "Any time you’re really stuck in your mind, moving your body helps shift it,” Dr. Wehrenberg said."
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1. mountain goat said...
2. mountain goat said...
Would be an improvement on the current City Boy culture of Drinking the Devil's Urine.
3. mountain goat said...
Laughter is good too. Practice what I preach now going out to enjoy the afternoon sunshine on my allotment. Have a great Sunday all...
4. planning4acrash said...
New Age voodoo nonsense to stop the masses from reading about economics, politics, history, etc and taking affirmative action. "Just let us do the thinking for you, don't worry, the Mayan Calendar is in control, and neoserfs can meditate"
5. theboltonfury said...
yoga - not sure I fancy that.
Think I'd rather be bankrupt than have my knees under my head
the original question is entirely valid. Doom worry is all consuming
6. unplugged said...
Many people, in my experience are so caught up in the rat race that they have little time to expand their world view and build up a philosophical grounding which causes problems when things get tough.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=asqd1H4IluQ
(Awful music, wise words IMO)
7. last_days_of_disco said...
@unplugged
Most people don't think, they have delegated it to the elite, here isa quote from that excellent book icarus posted ealier:
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street
"When will it all stop? It will not stop until we act upon one simple axiom: that the power system continues only so long as individuals want it to continue, and it will continue only so long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from government, declares it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day power elites are doomed. The attraction to "go along" with power elites is the attraction of something for nothing. That is the bait. The Establishment always offers something for nothing; but the something is taken from someone else, as taxes or plunder, and awarded elsewhere in exchange for political support.
Periodic crises and wars are used to whip up support for other plunder-reward cycles which in effect tighten the noose around our individual liberties. And of course we have hordes of academic sponges, amoral businessmen, and just plain hangers-on, to act as non-productive recipients for the plunder.
Stop the circle of plunder and immoral reward and elitist structures collapse. But not until a majority finds the moral courage and the internal fortitude to reject the something-for-nothing con game and replace it by voluntary associations, voluntary communes, or local rule and decentralized societies, will the killing and the plunder cease."
Amen
8. planning4acrash said...
Unplugged, Most people commute and can listen to freely available audio books on ipod or car stereo. The average person watches 4hrs of telly. The system is not entirely deterministic and people retain free will. Most r simply unaware
of alternatives.
9. planning4acrash said...
Paulston screwed us 4 a buck by understanding the system, planning & taking affirmative action. He didn't do it via meditation. we can't regain our liberties chanting. We must learn about and FIGHT for our rights because our lives are nothing without them
10. planning4acrash said...
Last Days, 2% started the American Revolution, 5% won it.
11. gardeniadotnet said...
Let's cheer ourselves up with a crazy graph....
12. planning4acrash said...
That basically means that the banks no longer have ANY money and have to borrow ALL their money from the Fed!! Phew, sobering stuff. I don't care anymore which way gold goes. Just so glad that I hold my money and not these jerks.