Research shows that when they confront a potentially unpleasant situation, such as some unfriendly faces at a gathering, these extraverts are apt to shift their attention rapidly around the room and zero in on amiable or neutral visages, thus short-circuiting the distressing images before they can get stored in memory.
Winifred Gallagher
We need to think about our homes from a behavioral perspective.
perspective
In learning about that, I realized I had subconsciously re-created my mother's living room.
learning living
Your living room should say sociable and personal.
living personal
She doesn't necessarily go with anything in the room, but she speaks to me. My friends from Tibet gave this to me just before I got a breast cancer diagnosis when I was writing the book.
writing friends book cancer
They're all prospect and no refuge.
refuge
It was very distinctive, almost like a little castle. There were all sorts of great nooks and crannies, and lots of doors and patios and prospects.
great
Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.
worry attention focus anxiety
Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.
attention focus therapy trauma
attention focus
Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.
attention focus consciousness rationalism
.. In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
architecture
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