Masculinity is the trait of being associated with the male in various contexts. The word masculine can refer to: the property of being biologically male, more precisely often expressed in biology as "sex" a traditional gender role associated with sexually male humans grammatical gender, an inflection of nouns, largely derived from gender role association Masculinity is sometimes used as a synonym for manhood. The counterpart or positive antonym of masculinit ...

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Masculinity, Masculinity - Sociology, Masculinity - Development of masculinity, Masculinity - Men's health risks, Masculinity - Stoicism and emotional repression, Masculinity - Risk-taking, Masculinity - Independence and invulnerability, Masculinity - References, Masculinity - External links

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Sociologist Janet Saltzman Chafetz (1974, 35-36) describes seven areas of traditional masculinity: Physical--virile, athletic, strong, brave. Unconcerned about appearance and aging; Functional--breadwinner, provider; Sexual--sexually aggressive, experienced. Single status acceptable; Emotional--unemotional, stoic; Intellectual--logical, intellectual, rational, objective, practical, Interpersonal--leader, dominating; disciplinarian; independent ...

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Masculinity, Masculinity - Sociology, Masculinity - Development of masculinity, Masculinity - Men's health risks, Masculinity - Stoicism and emotional repression, Masculinity - Risk-taking, Masculinity - Independence and invulnerability, Masculinity - References, Masculinity - External links

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Stoicism is a school of philosophy founded (308 BC) in Athens by Zeno of Citium (Cyprus). It teaches self-control and detachment from distracting emotions, sometimes interpreted as an indifference to pleasure or pain. This allows one to be a clear thinker, levelheaded and unbiased. In practice, Stoicism is intended to imbue an individual with virtue, wisdom, and integrity of character. Students are encouraged to help those in need, knowing that those who can, should. Stoicism also teaches psychological independence from society, regarding ...

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• Stoicism - History
• Stoicism - Stoic ethics and virtues
• Stoicism - Spiritual exercise
• Stoicism - Stoic physics
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• Stoicism - Spiritual descendants
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Emotions: We Know too Much, Feel too Little

A telephone operator in a small town would receive a daily call from a man who asked for the exact time. Finally, the operator asked him why he called every day. "Because", he said, "I am the man responsible for blowing the whistle at noon each day." "Well, that's strange", the operator replied: "Every day, exactly at noon, I set my clock by your whistle".

Individual lives cannot be compartmentalised; through our actions, we impact each other more than we realise. It follows that there is a profound relationship between the individual and the universe. So it's important for us to understand one another better. One way is to learn more about emotions, a key to understanding human behaviour and relationships.

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Our understanding of the Emotional System today is still in the Dark Ages. This has its analogy to the time when people's understanding of our Solar System was based upon the belief that the Sun revolved around the Earth, as it certainly appeared that way-however, just the reverse was true. The problem was, as long as we believed the Sun went around the Earth, we were limited as to how far we could go in the Solar System.

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Emotions

Constructive expression is the key to emotional clarity. Constructive means expressing feelings in a way that does not harm the person they are expressed to. For example, saying "I am angry", or "I am frustrated" to someone is different than acting out the anger or frustration. Finding the method of constructive expression that fits our unique characteristics is part of the path to awakening. It may be an art form, or a particular practice, like yoga.

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Let us learn to manage our emotions. All negative thoughts are caused by a disruption in the body's energy system. By learning a simple routine of tapping certain parts of our face and hands, the end points of energy meridians, these disruptions can be fixed - often within minutes.

With awareness, we can lift ourselves out of irritation, restlessness, anxiety, fear and more. We can equally let go of long-term hurts and bitterness. We can manage stress, which needlessly saps our energy. We can also heal physical aches and pains with the same tool.

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A devotee asked Ramakrishna Parmahansa : "Sir, is God real and can I see Him?" Ramakrishna replied: "Yes, God is real. I see Him just as I see you or any other object around me." The devotee continued: "Can I also see Him as you do?" Said the sage: "Yes, you can, if the intensity of your longing for God is equal to the intensity of a drowning man longing for fresh air; or the intensity of a mother longing for the life of her only child in the grip of serious illness; or of the miser longing for more wealth. If your longing for God is at least a fraction of the longing which Radha had for Krishna, then you will see God."

The miracle of healing, is simply the body offering the subconscious mind's 'knowledge of perfect health' when the questioning nature of the conscious mind is silenced. Real faith is about things happening in the present. If it is hundred per cent faith, it must happen.

(See also: Power of Emotions, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

.Prayer can perform miracle. There is no better meditation technique than sincere prayer.

"We may love God as a parent, as our child, as our beloved or even our friend". Says Amma, "Contemplate Him as your creator, protector and the final abode to where you will return. Open your heart and pray to Him. He cannot sit silent and unmoved when somebody calls Him like that...Without love for God, no amount of meditation will bear fruit.

Rowing a boat against the current is difficult but if there is a sail, it becomes easy. Love for God is like a sail that helps the boat move forward".

(See also: Praying with emotions, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Emotional Sensitivity

Empathic people do have observable traits that are easily identified. Interestingly, the traits are a set of characteristics that have always had their own air of mystery. I'm referring to a set of psychological traits that has never been adequately explained before. These characteristics are commonly referred to as emotional sensitivity.

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In our New Age and self-help literature, another important realization about feelings has been emerging strongly over the last six or eight years. More and more, we hear of the connection between suppressed feelings and chronic poor health. Healing professionals are venturing the idea that in order to resolve health issues, we must resolve the emotional issues behind them. The awareness is growing that the unreleased and trapped negative emotional energy keeps building inside and eventually manifests in the physical.

In this article, John Ruskan describes how he originated his system for releasing feelings, how the system works, and what benefits may be realized.

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Emotions are essentially impulses that move an organism to action, originating automatic reaction behavior which has been adapted through evolution as a survival need. Davidoff (1980) defines emotion as a feeling that is expressed through physiological functions such as facial expressions, faster heartbeat, and behaviors such as aggression, crying, covering face with hands, and so on. Emotion is complex, and the term has no single universally accepted definition. Emotions are mental states that arise spontaneously, rather than ...

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• Emotion - Relation to cultural and social factors
• Emotion - Theoretical traditions
• Emotion - Etymology
• Emotion - Physical responses to emotion
• Emotion - Computer models of emotion
• Emotion - Emotion researchers

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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a controversial psychotherapeutic tool that is claimed to be able to relieve many psychological conditions, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, stress, addictions and phobias. The basic EFT technique involves holding a disturbing memory or emotion in mental focus and simultaneously using the fingers to tap on a series of 12 specific points on the body that correspond to meridians used in Chinese medicine. The theory behind EFT is that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's "en ...

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• Emotional Freedom Techniques - History
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - The concept
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - The basic principle
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Theories of the energy system
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - How emotional problems arise
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Differences from TFT
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - The EFT application procedure
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Two components to EFT application
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Emotional issues
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Applying EFT to specific events preparation
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - The setup phrase
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - The remaining tapping
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - After the tapping
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Subtleties in the application of EFT
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Daisy chaining
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Chasing the Pain
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Stages of confronting the issue
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - The Volcano Technique
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - About the tapping points
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Perceived negative effects of EFT application
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Controversy
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Anecdotal nature of claims
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - No clear explanation of why
• Emotional Freedom Techniques - Placebos and connections with earlier therapies

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Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness Sorrow Surprise Anticipation is an emotion involving pleasure in considering some expected or longed-for good event, or irritation at having to wait. Robert Plutchik listed anticipation as one of the eight basic emotions in his psychoevolutionary theory. See also hope. A name for pleasured anticipation is e

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Emotional Intelligence, also called EI or EQ, describes an ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups. However, being a relatively new area, the definition of emotional intelligence is still in a state of flux. Some, such as Mayer (2005a) prefer to distinguish emotional knowl ...

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• Emotional intelligence - Defining emotional intelligence
• Emotional intelligence - Emotional intelligence
• Emotional intelligence - Mayer and Salovey and emotional intelligence
• Emotional intelligence - Goleman and emotional intelligence
• Emotional intelligence - Emotional quotient measures
• Emotional intelligence - Criterion-based test measures
• Emotional intelligence - Self-reported test measures
• Emotional intelligence - Nancy Gibbs on emotional intelligence
• Emotional intelligence - Criticism

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Emotional clearing (EMC) is a form of psychotherapy, developed in the 1980s. It spread mainly in Europe during the 1990s and has been championed by therapist John Ruskan. It has been given support by some therapists and clinicians who have highlighted its use in dealing with conditions such as psychosis, depression, and anxiety. However, as a technique it has yet to be rigorously tested in controlled trials and little peer-reviewed data has been put forward for its effectiveness, with much of its supporting evidence remaining anecdotal. Its advocates however, stress its benefits, and b ...

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Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy wherein the arguer (who is using this fallacy) takes advantage of emotion to prove his or her argument. This is a type of red herring. It encompasses several logical fallacies, including: Appeal to consequences Appeal to fear Appeal to flattery Appeal to pity Appeal to ridicule Appeal to spite Wishful thinking Appeal to emotion - Related fallacies. Many other fallacies often, but not nece ...

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Greed is a desire to obtain more money, wealth or material possessions than one needs. Greed is listed as one of the Christian seven deadly sins, usually by the synonym of avarice. Greedy individuals are often believed to be harmful to society as their motives often appear to disregard the welfare of others: if one person is to increase in wealth, somebody else must be decreasing in wealth (assuming, of course, that a market economy is a zero sum game). However, greed has become more acceptable (and the word less frequent) in Western culture, where the desire to acquire weal ...

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The ancient Stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used meant different things in the past than they do today. The word stoic has come to mean unemotional or indifferent to pain, because Stoic ethics taught freedom from passion by following reason. But the Stoics did not seek to extinguish emotions, only to avoid emotional troubles by developing clear judgement and inner calm through dilig ...

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Stoicism, Stoicism - History, Stoicism - Stoic ethics and virtues, Stoicism - Spiritual exercise, Stoicism - Stoic physics, Stoicism - Brotherhood, Stoicism - Quotations, Stoicism - Spiritual descendants, Stoicism - Books

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