Tuesday, August 11, 2009

impending examination

Hypothyroidism : Man, a more complex animal, does not need to confront present danger to feel fear. He may fear a hurricane many miles away as he reads the storm warnings. He may fear an employer, a teacher, the loss of his job, or an impending examination, or a war that threatens across the world. So long as the fear is justified by external circumstances, so long as there is a real threat, his fear is healthy as the animal's fear is healthy, because it prompts him to preparedness.
When the danger is over, fear disappears and the body relaxes. Heart, blood pressure, glands and nerves return to normal.
But when the danger does not exist in reality, when it dwells only in (he fantasy of the sufferer, when it does not subside with the passing of its apparent cause—then the fear is no longer healthy.

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  1. But with all of us, the deciding estimate of our accomplishment is not society, although it plays a part, nor any group of persons, although they exert their influence.
    Too often it is not even our critical or reasoning mind which passes judgment on us. Unless we strive toward that maturity of mind which makes these judgments conscious and reasonable, they remain uncon­scious, and they remain the immature judgments of childhood. To keep our goal clear and to judge it by rational standards is the task of our conscious, reasoning mind.

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  2. Conscious or unconscious, we make our own choice. No human be­ing is spared the struggles of life, but each human being has his unique way of reacting to them. The pain of adjustment, the awareness of the world's misery and inequity, cry out in a Beethoven symphony. Through­out the ages there have been those who grieved over the bitterness of life but felt themselves helpless to improve it. Yet in each age some in­dividuals have rebelled against what they would not endure, and have exerted themselves to change it. When the dynamic energies of the rebel have been translated into action or teaching for the benefit of hers, the world has found another of its great leaders and reformers.

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  3. We must be careful not to confuse such a positive acceptance of the joys and responsibilities of living with the familiar pattern of con­formity or resignation. To conform to others' standards is to surrender one's identity, and to resign oneself to the will of others is to surren­der one's will Each of these is a death of at least part of the self. To do tnis knowingly is one thing. But to surrender unknowingly, and to rebel at the surrender without knowing that we rebel, is to live in per­petual inner conflict.

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  4. Yeast Infection : Under the guise of influenza may be hiding a variety of diseases: hepatitis, measles, HIV infection and other Self-medication in these cases is fraught with serious consequences for health.

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