MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'instincts'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:45:24 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4200632&cid=t_249684_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F5mmtPdWD4bg%2F If you’ve spent any time on YouTube over the last few years (and you know you have), you’ve likely seen the video of the invisible gorilla experiment (if you’ve somehow missed it, catch yourself up here). The researchers who conducted that study, Dan Simons and Chris Chabris, didn’t realize that they were about to create an instant classic—a psychology study mentioned alongside the greats, and known well outside the slim confines of psych wonks. Milgram taught us about our sheepish obedience to authority; Mischel used marshmallows to teach us about delayed gratification; and Simons and Chabris used a faux gorilla to teach us that we are not the masters of attention we think we are. The duo’s new book, The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, is every... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4200632 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:13:26 +0100 4200632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3854570&cid=t_249684_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F08%2F10%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-august-10-2010%2F I’m an avid reader who’s been alternating between five to ten very different books lately. Why so many? Well it’s still summer and I’m soaking every bit of it while I can. One that’s been taking much of my attention is The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D. While the title isn’t very sexy, the read is very illuminating. Why? It talks about the comprehensive (what I’ll call) diet plan for someone suffering from anxiety and phobia. One of the topics it covers is negative self-talk. The kind that often exacerbates anxiety and is also described as one of five mind traps in this week’s top post. It also talks about the importance of exercise, meditation and even nutrition. All things that can help ease your anxiety so that yo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3854570 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:26:12 +0100 3854570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3385503&cid=t_249684_133_f&fid=35084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballastexistenz.autistics.org%2F%3Fp%3D614 Some people seem terrified of the idea that human beings have instincts. I don’t hold that view. I find human instincts fascinating — the way we just know things, or do things, based on things that are built into us very deeply. I don’t mean to say that all humans have identical instincts, just that we all have them. I have terrible body awareness. I often can’t locate pain at all, and if I do it’s often because someone has sat down and played twenty questions with me for an hour or longer. Sometimes I don’t even know I’m in pain, I just notice the responses to it and fail to connect the dots. Which makes it astounding to me when instincts related to health or body awareness give me information out of the blue that I can’t tie to any consci... Ballastexistenz blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3385503 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:38:24 +0100 3385503 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3092738&cid=t_249684_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F12%2F16%2F10-things-i-dont-want-for-christmas%2F While everybody else is busy publishing their “Top 10″ lists for Christmas and year-end, I thought I’d do something a little different… So here’s 10 things I don’t want for Christmas. 10. Excuses. I’m so sick of hearing excuses from people, rather than results. All the time you spend explaining why you didn’t do such and such or couldn’t find XYZ could’ve been spent actually doing such and such or finding XYZ. I think sometimes we all have had our share of hearing enough excuses from others. 9. Endless war and death. Apparently some of our most recent presidents here in the U.S. haven’t been very avid historians. I think it should be requirement of a politician for higher office that they must pass a minimum set of world hi... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3092738 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:41:40 +0100 3092738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1556453&cid=t_249684_151_f&fid=36047&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FADozenSteps%2F%7E3%2F323812823%2F Sacrifice = Unity = Survival The Daily Reflection for June 30th is certainly one to take forward into July and even after that. “The unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival of A.A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic, so does sacrifice mean unity and survival for the group and for A.A.’s entire fellowship.” Making it a real challenge for me at this moment to quantify (wrong word, I know but) with this; “Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life.” Neatly ignoring the very next sentence: “May I do... A Dozen Steps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1556453 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:15:12 +0100 1556453 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1554535&cid=t_249684_151_f&fid=36047&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FADozenSteps%2F%7E3%2F323018097%2F My first thoughts subsequent to deciding on a title for this are… For those profundity pushers who offer newcomers this phrase “do the right thing and the right thing will happen,” I want to say - for who? Because it is my experience that it is a matter of perspective whether this will hold true for you. It might be that if you do the right thing, the right thing will happen - for someone else! The trap is coming to believe that if you do the right thing, the right thing will happen for you! For ex., my biggest challenge personally - intimate relationships; Attracted to a newcomer: the right thing is to leave the newcomer out of my personal world until the person has the opportunity to get and stay sober. You can be friends. I do the right thing and… no, that wasn&#... A Dozen Steps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1554535 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:15:28 +0100 1554535 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1437028&cid=t_249684_151_f&fid=36047&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FADozenSteps%2F%7E3%2F288684956%2F “The need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.” Thank God Rick T. taught me one of life’s simple realities I had not learned, for whatever reason. He made the simple statement that each one of us has our own perception of reality. That your perception of reality and my perception of reality often would not match. Since God graced me with sobriety I have been given many additional gifts. One of them is that my perception of reality has equality as its foundation. There are times when this gift turns to frustration and then I have control issues… For ex., when “we” lay claim to the profundity that the newcomer in a meeting is the most important person in the room. That simply isn’t true. No... A Dozen Steps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1437028 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:28:32 +0100 1437028 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1397710&cid=t_249684_151_f&fid=36047&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FADozenSteps%2F%7E3%2F277502033%2F And I’ll waver in and out of it, dammit, because I have basic human instincts… As I do so often - from “The Language of the Heart” page 237-238 (I ought to set up a cot on these pages) “My basic flaw had always been dependence - almost absolute dependence - on people or circumstances to supply me with prestige, security, and the like.” It’s that “and the like” stuff that gets me! Bill doesn’t talk about love, affection, attention, a feeling of worthiness, a feeling of being needed, in this area. “And the like.” He does speak of depression, which I am subject to on and off, depending on my spiritual condition and my self-esteem. “Failing to get these things according to my perfectionist dreams and specifications, ... A Dozen Steps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1397710 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:00:29 +0100 1397710