Life-Enhancing Anxiety makes a bold proposal: It is not less anxiety that we need today, but more, at least of a certain kind of anxiety. Life-enhancing anxiety is the invigorating degree of anxiety needed to become passionately engaged, ethically attuned, and creatively enriched. Set against our anxiety-avoidant times, life-enhancing anxiety enables us to “live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence.”
Recommended Article – Julie Falk of SHP has conversations with six psychologists who represent a broad range of humanistic flavors, including (but not limited to) existential-humanistic, phenomenological, human science, constructivist, and transpersonal.
Kirk Schneider, PhD, Psychologist, EHI President and Instructor, has a new article on his PsychologyToday blog, Awakening to Awe.
The post is entitled, “What the World Needs Now Is ‘Life-Enhancing’ Anxiety” in which he posits that “one of our great problems today is too little of a certain kind of anxiety.”
EHI Congratulates Ken Bradford on the Release of his Latest Book! Opening Yourself: The psychology and yoga of self-liberation The human predicament is such that we continually strive to fill an inner sense of wanting that afflicts us throughout our lives. The recurring sense of inner discontent arises as the desire for something less (bad) or more (enjoyable) than what is happening just
Existential thinkers have a long history of thriving in the face of crisis. Dr Kirk Schneider has just written a new article, What Existentialists Can Teach Us About COVID-19, on his blog. In this article he cites May Angelou, Rollo May, Albert Camus, Viktor Frankel, and Ernest Becker as existentialists who overcame personal traumas, ordeals and illnesses and found hope
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