One of the reasons why relationships fail or get torn apart, is due to the constant struggle for control between couples. This article talks about the behavior of a controlling partner and how this characteristic developed.
Date Posted: October 18, 2018
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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Previous studies have shown that self-control is a scarce resource and is exhaustive, but recent research found that the perception of control affects self-control.
Jun 4
Categories: Control Issues, Self-Doubt
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Mindfulness strategies helps to reduce cravings for alcohol, substances and food. Such strategies include exercises that are focused on physical sensations and deep breathing, to differentiate between thoughts and physical being.
May 30
Categories: Addictions, Control Issues, Eating Disorders, Mindfulness, ...
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At the back of our minds, we do know that there are many things in life that are out of our control. However, we often choose not to believe it, and cause ourselves copious amounts of worry and stress because they try to micromanage everything. Here ...
May 12
Categories: Control Issues, Self-Care / Self Compassion
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Impulse shopping is not new to most of us, and might even be considered a problematic, nasty habit by some of us. Here’s an unexpectedly useful strategy to help you cope with this.
May 2
Categories: Control Issues, Other
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Research shows that specific temptations are harder to avoid than abstract ones, because specific descriptions are more appealing than abstract ones.
Apr 17
Categories: Control Issues, Other
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Temptations can capture your motivational system and drive you to do something that is not in your long-term best interests. If you prepare for those temptations, though, you may be better able to resist them.
Sep 19
Categories: Addictions, Control Issues, Drug Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Love ...
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Steam power sets massive, clunky turbines into motion. Horsepower involves explosions of work, with engines hurtling cars down a freeway. Solar power taps the awesome might of the sun itself and may someday light entire cities.
But willpower seems ...
Dec 17
Categories: Control Issues
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Self-control can be difficult - sticking with a diet or trying to focus attention on a boring textbook are hard things to do. Considerable research suggests one potential explanation for this difficulty: Exerting self-control for a long period seems ...
Apr 26
Categories: Adult ADHD, Control Issues
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Scandinavian research has shown that the emotional centre in the brains of young motorists develops and matures ahead of the frontal lobe, and that this varies between risk-willing and risk-averse groups.
Apr 7
Categories: Control Issues
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The ability to manage our emotions and exert self-control is considered one of the cornerstones of emotional intelligence and a key predictor of personal and professional success. Yet, it doesn’t take a marshmallow test to figure out that most of ...
Mar 31
Categories: Control Issues
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As far as examples of willpower go, one of the most impressive you'll ever find is the "incredible Buddha boy" chronicled in GQ a few years back by George Saunders. The boy had been meditating under a tree for seven months, evidently without food or ...
Mar 4
Categories: Control Issues
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It might be true that people have a harder time controlling themselves when they are tired at the end of the day, but that doesn't mean that self-control is a limited resource, say authors in the Cell Press publication Trends in Cognitive Sciences ...
Jan 20
Categories: Control Issues
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If you have ever said or done the wrong thing at the wrong time, you should read this. Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and the University of California, San Diego, have successfully demonstrated ...
Dec 14
Categories: Control Issues
GOA habit, either good or bad is an automatic behavior that we engage in without thinking. So how do we change it?
Dec 10
Categories: Addictions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Control Issues, Mindfulness
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Nowadays it's hardly news that self-control is vital to success in many areas of life.
The studies bear this out with boring monotony in education, in health, in terms of how much money you earn, in personal relationships and even mental ...
Jul 9
Categories: Control Issues
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