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Noggin Notes aims to educate and enrich your noggin about mental illness and wellness. Conversations range from factual and data-based to theoretical and idea-based. We welcome your input at info@nogginnotes.com or info@zephyrwellness.org. Noggin Notes is not intended as a substitute for professional counseling but we really do hope you can adopt and use some of what we share in order to improve your own life and to seek peace and wellness every day.
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Monday Sep 11, 2017
Monday Sep 11, 2017
Jake discusses the emotion of Joy in this episode. Happiness is a blurred emotion. It can mean different things to many people. Most of us will agree that happiness is an emotional state of well-being defined by positive feelings ranging from contentment to intense joy.
Monday Sep 04, 2017
Monday Sep 04, 2017
Jake discusses the emotion of Anger in this episode. Anger is an emotion that everyone has experienced. Something or someone has made you frustrated, infuriated, irritated, annoyed or just plain angry. This episode aims to illustrate the significant role that anger contributes to motivation and if your motivation is not to make change, then you might need to let go of your anger because anger should always serve an intentional purpose.
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Jake discusses the emotion of fear in this episode. What is the adaptive function of fear? What does fear tell us is going on in our environment? In brief, fear tells us that there’s a threat or a danger present. It’s probably safe to assume that compared with our ancestors, in this day and age we have little to fear in our day-to-day lives. Why then in places like the US, Europe, and Australia is there a reported general increase in overall anxiety? Jake discusses fear (both rational fear and irrational fear) and anxiety further and talks about how the two are related.
Monday Aug 21, 2017
Monday Aug 21, 2017
Part 2 discusses potentially unhealthy cycles of shame and guilt. We encourage you to think of instances in your life where you may be requiring deed based performances from people in order for you to extend forgiveness, and ask yourself are these deeds really necessary for you to forgive them? Similar to respect and trust, it is up to us to extend these to people. Is it really necessary for us to require people to ‘earn’ these things from us with an arbitrary deed? On the flip side, maybe you think certain people in your life are requiring too much from you. Jake gives everyday examples of where this may occur and delves deeper into forgiveness and the emotions of shame and guilt.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
This is a 2 episode podcast on the emotions of shame and guilt, as these two emotions are closely related. In brief, shame tells us that we failed to meet someone else's expectations, and guilt tells us to make a repair for failing to meet those expectations. This episode is the second episode to cover one of the 10 discrete emotions, originally reported on by the psychologist Carroll Izard. (Author of the "Psychology of Emotions"). Jake covered the first, "sadness", in the last episode (episode 5).
Wednesday Aug 09, 2017
Wednesday Aug 09, 2017
Everyday frustrations, disappointments, work-life balance, financial stress or grief can cause an individual to feel sad. People are entitled to feel and express sadness. Yet sadness It’s an emotion that helps us relieve stress, empathise with other people and makes us think about what we really want in life. Lets hear Jake give a deeper explanation. Hope you enjoy it!
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Being mentally healthy doesn't mean never going through bad times or experiencing emotional problems. We all go through disappointments, loss, and change. And while these are normal parts of life, they can still cause sadness, anxiety, and stress. Listen to the Jake's final overview on emotions. Hope you enjoy it!
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Feelings are sparked by emotions and colored by the thoughts, memories, and images that have become subconsciously linked with that particular emotion for you. But it works the other way around too. For example, just thinking about something threatening can trigger an emotional fear response. While individual emotions are temporary, the feelings they evoke may persist and grow over a lifetime. Listen to Jake explain further. Hope you enjoy it!
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Mental health refers to your overall psychological well-being. It includes the way you feel about yourself, the quality of your relationships, and your ability to manage your feelings and deal with difficulties. In the next two part show, Jake will break down on the way we Feel and Think. Hope you enjoy it!
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
No matter how many tests you put people through in order to have them earn your trust, at the end of that whole process, it was ultimately up to you to grant them your trust (or not), and then to continue to trust them (or not). Jake will go deeper and explain what all this means. Hope you enjoy it!