Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- .Introduction or sum up. (1)(A) Excitement: Positive excitement (ex. a new car). Negative excitement (ex. a car accident). (B) Calm: Positive calm (ex. calm on vacation). Negative calm (ex. calm zombie). (2) Interest and curiosity vs. boredom. (3) Physical energy. (A) Energetic: a type of positive excitement. (B) Lethargic: a type of negative excitement. (4) Emotion. (A) Mania: a type of positive excitement. (B) Depression: a type of negative calm. (C) Strong anger or sadness: a type of negative excitation. (5) (A) Nervous and tense: a type of negative excitation. (B) Relaxed and peaceful: a type of positive calm. --- 3/24/2000
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- .This section is about excitement, calm and boredom. Topics include: ( ) Boredom. ( ) Calm. ( ) Excitement. ( ) Relax. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) Excited: pleasure, pain vs. (2) Unexcited (total eveness): calm, tranquil vs. (3) Unexcited: boredom, disinterest, unconcerned. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) Interest, curiosity. Vs. (2) Disinterest, boredom. --- 09/17/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) Mania, hyperactive, or excited. Adrenaline rush. (2) Calm. A neutral state. (3) Lethargic, lazy, passive, depressed. Passive means not self assertive enough. Learned helplessness. Tired physically due to malnourishment, sleep deprivation, or overwork. Mentally tired (no energy to think or feel). Unmotivated, or bored, or disinterested. --- 09/17/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) Peace, calm, serene, tranquil, relaxed. Vs. Tense, stressed, excited, wired. Naturally or learned, in mind or body, in a positive or negative way, from internal sources (goals, fears, etc.) or external sources (women, jobs, noise, etc.). --- 07/10/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) Physical tension and mental tension are both causes and effects of each other. The opposite of physical tension is to physically relax. (2) Physical relaxation and mental relaxation (i.e., calmness) are both causes and effects of each other. Excessive mental tension can cause harm. --- 11/20/2001
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) Positive excitement (ex. happy): can't sleep, can't eat. (2) Negative excitement (ex. anger, fear, depression): can't sleep, can't eat. (3) The symptoms of positive excitement and negative excitement are similar. --- 5/15/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) Unexcited: bored vs. calm, peace, relaxed. (2) Tension, excitement: positive and negative. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- (1) You can feel calm yet excited. This is a cool and healthy feeling. (2) Related terms: Peaceful. Full of peace. Content. Satisfied. --- 7/16/1999
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Bored people just don't get so excited. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom and me. Why do I get so bored, so fast, so easily? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom can be as stressful as excitement. --- 6/12/2003
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom is deadly. Some people kill themselves out of boredom. Some jobs are extremely boring. Therefore, some jobs are deadly. Battle boredom. --- 6/8/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom is the new frontier. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom vs. interest and curiosity. The allure of mystery: curiosity and wonder in the unknown. Somethings are interesting only till you've found out about them and mastered them, at which point they become a bore. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom vs. interest. Ways to avoid boredom. Always keep many goals going. Always remember your goals, strategies, tactics, and reasons. In boring situations, take a mental trip, or take a physical trip (i.e. get out of situation, momentarily or permanently). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom: even if you are rich, there's only so many things to do on earth, only so much pleasure to be had. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom. A thing is new and interesting only by degree. Ways and degrees a thing is new. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom. Two types of boredom: doing boring work vs. having no direction, purpose or goal. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Boredom. What is the brain physiology of boredom? --- 10/10/2003
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm is not to be achieved from without (outside). Calm is to be achieved from within. How? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm of ignoring problems is not the same as the calm of solving problems. --- 05/30/1993
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm. Definition: Calmness is not so much an emotion, nor a level of energy, as it is a level of stress. --- 7/16/1999
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm. How peaceful and calm can you get? To fear nothing, and to not worry. To desire nothing. To not care what happens. This is a stupid way to be. Yet necessary to clear mind for work. Where is the optimal point? --- 06/06/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm. The key to maintaining calm, peace, and serenity is to take enough time to do things at a thoughtful, deliberate, meditative pace. Very Zen like. Aware of what doing. --- 09/20/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm. To achieve calm by ignoring the world is not the optimal state. Yet, when we are feeling completely overwhelmed, it is sometimes necessary. Always eventually come back to the world. --- 3/25/2000
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm. Types and levels of calmness. (1) After a massage calm. (2) Laying on the beach calm. (3) Park bench calm. (4) Summer evening cool breeze on the porch calm. (5) On vacation calm. (6) Weekend calm. --- 7/16/1999
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm. Types of calmness. (1) Money in the bank calm. (2) Got a steady love/sex partner calm. --- 2/17/2000
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calm. What are the boundaries of calm? How to achieve calm? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calming myself down. Is it ok to say to myself "Everything is all right" or "Everything will be all right", when it is not now, or when it will not be in the future, or when it depends on how I act? When are things good enough to say that everything is all right? When does it become self delusion? When does it calm me to confront my problems and situation? When does it make me lax (instead of relax) to ignore my problems and situation? --- 04/20/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calmness of thought, not racing thoughts. Calmness of emotion, not deep negative emotions. Calmness is very important. --- 12/21/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Calmness. Effects of two views. (1) Short term, day to day, narrow view, here and now. (2) Long term, world-wide and time-wide view. Past, present, future. View outside self to the world. --- 10/30/1993
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Cause. Over what mental or experiential phenomenon? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Definition. Intensity of emotional response. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Emotions of excitement vs. unexcitement. (1) Excited: pain, pleasure. Tense. Hot and bothered, feathers rustled, riled up, perturbed, miffed. Wired, blown out, exhausted, stressed. Vs. (2) Unexcited. Calm, tranquil, equanimity, balance, serene. Peaceful, unbothered. Carefree, free. Contented vs. discontented. Satisfied vs. dissatisfied. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Excitement due to energy levels. Tired people just don't get so excited. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Excitement, calmness, boredom continuum. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Excitement. Sexually excited. (1) Thinking about it tons. (2) Aroused. (A) Mentally. (B) Physically. Heart rate. Blood flow. Breathing rate and volume. Shaking. Hard on. What are the chemicals causing reaction? Adrenaline, endorphins, testosterone. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Excitement. Too excited vs. not excited enough: bored, depressed, unmotivated. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- How is excitement related to "speeding" on caffeine, methamphetamines, etc.? When you speed are you excited? When you are excited are you speeding? What is the biochemistry of excitement? Types of excitement such as: Excitement due to danger produces adrenaline. Sexual excitement produces another mix of chemicals. Excitement related to happiness such as that produced by winning the lottery produces another mix of chemicals. --- 6/20/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- In life, whether one is talking about work, people or just living, it is very important to stay interested, curious, and keep sense of wonder, amazement and delight. When one loses interest then one becomes depressed and sometimes even suicidal. Interest is just as important as happiness, perhaps even more important. When one becomes bored, apathetic, non-curious, mentally and physically inactive, then one is decaying. In this sense, keeping it fun is imperative. --- 1/4/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Lazy vs. bored. Laziness is lack of motivation. Boredom is lack of curiosity. --- 12/30/1995
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- More than money, fame, and sex, men are driven by boredom and curiosity. (1) Boredom is a negative term. Boredom is a painful condition. (2) Curiosity is a positive term. You could be interested in one thing, but curiosity drives you to another. --- 06/05/1997
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Nervous = excited. Definition: excess of any emotion, especially fear or anxiety. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Nervous. When people are nervous to any degree, due to being unconsciously or consciously unsure or un-self-confident, with or without good cause, especially in social situations, they often start acting like idiots. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Not worried about future. Not upset about past. Not excited about present. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Optimum level and types of calm and excitation. Optimal calm = anymore excited and it impedes your performance. --- 03/23/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Relax. Best ways how to relax physically and psychologically during any experience (internal or external), or after any experience. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Relax. How to stay relaxed in high and low pressure situations. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- Relaxation. What it is, how to do it, and how much to be relaxed. (1) Two types: emotionally relaxed vs. intellectually relaxed (not thinking). (2) Some think relaxation is (A) Not thinking. (B) Thinking about nature. (C) Thinking about positive things in life. (D) No pressure to achieve. Freedom, with no opposition, and no needs. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- To say, "Is that all there is? There has to be something more." These are two sentences that motivate explorers, scientists and inventors as much as they motivate people who are into seances, fortune telling, magic and religion. A person can see most of life by the time they are eighteen. What then? --- 11/16/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- We want to feel calm as opposed to nervous. We want to feel excited as opposed to bored. --- 9/29/1998
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- What causes me to feel relaxed, excited, with strong emotions, and strong drives? At what mental and emotional state do I produce most and best and why? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, excitement calm boredom. --- When mental excitation overcomes physical tiredness vs. when mental boredom overcomes physical energy. --- 05/03/1994