By Stephanie Brown Ph.D
Feeling rushed, uncontrolled, and overwhelmed?
Feeling such as you can’t hold up
and can’t stop?
It’s not only you.
From the necessity to be continually attached and the altering definition of work hours,” to unrealistic expectancies of immediate gratification, bodies and brains are being harmed by means of behavior that, as with every type of habit, promise temporary delight whereas doing long term damage.
As a psychologist and dependancy specialist who practices in Silicon Valley, Stephanie Brown sees firsthand the influence of ever-faster know-how and the tradition it has spawned. She understands it’s affecting us mentally, bodily, and spiritually. during this groundbreaking publication, she explores how our ideals and behaviors are being formed by way of the likely unlimited new global we’ve entered in contemporary yearsand why swifter doesn’t constantly equivalent larger. Dr. Brown bargains a step by step plan for breaking out of the rate catch. With functional guidance, she indicates us tips on how to ease up at the gasoline pedal and reconnect with ourselves, studying to acceptand valueour barriers as humans, lessen our rigidity degrees, and unfastened ourselves from our counterproductive obsession with speed.
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Manifest Destiny validated the idea that it was the settler’s right to own the continent, that there were no limits to progress, that the individuals constituting this country were so powerful they could conquer any problem. A favorite word of the time was boundlessness, the promise of endless opportunity. Yet the basic beliefs—unlimited growth, unlimited individual power—are the same delusions that constitute addictive thinking in relation to substances and other behaviors. The values of Manifest Destiny crystallized into three basic rights: 1.
I have adapted the idea to the issue of speed as a cultural loss of control. Just like countless hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have looked at their use of alcohol, you can now ask: am I hooked on fast? As you read the list of behaviors, feelings, and ways of thinking that constitute the warning signs of an addiction to a speeded-up pace of life, see if anything fits for you. As I read this list in a lecture or even describe these signs in a social conversation, people often laugh with immediate recognition.
Sometimes I was able to help these people see that the only road to relief from this addiction was to acknowledge their loss of control. When they recognized that they couldn’t go any faster but they also couldn’t stop trying to go faster, many could miraculously begin to slow down. Then and only then could they begin to change. But, I told my airplane friend, they have to really see it, like you did when you decided not to pick up your next cigarette. We’d been stopped on the runway for a while, but now a gate was open.