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...compensate for them. The part of your brain associated with conscious thought, called the prefrontal cortex, has a direct line into the amygdala and can quiet it down. This requires effort - and creativity. "The most productive thing is to recognize that it's natural to feel anxiety in the context of unpredictability. A rat would be going through the same stuff," says Forsyth, and he means that in a reassuring way. "And then sit with it. Do not let your feelings decide what to do. Feelings are fickle...
...concluding, "Be still and know that I am God." Addressing God, Yancey says, allows us to "bring our fears to someone who seems quite positive that he's able to run the world. You can take the panic and anxiety and transfer that to him." That is the context, says Martin, for the famous prayer of the beatified mystic Julian of Norwich: "All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well...
Similarly, Mundy's account of the strain Barack's political ambitions have placed on his family may seem revelatory, unless one has read his book, The Audacity of Hope, in which he writes about this topic extensively. Mundy offers some insight about Michelle simply by putting her life into context - describing the black experience in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, for example, and the cliqueishness of Harvard Law School. For those wanting to understand the basic life experiences that influenced Michelle Obama, Mundy's portrait is a reliable field guide...
...stage. The fascination in this particular ballet lies in the buildup to the climactic fifth movement: as Phillip Glass’ music becomes more and more dramatic and exciting, the dancers drop clothes and spiral out of control in a frenzy of ecstatic and hopeless passion. But without the context of the first four movements, the fifth and only one presented looked too easy, and the dancers looked too happy, for Tharp’s imagination to come to life. Still, there was something about the ambition to end with a nonsensical, kaleidoscopic cataclysm that made one feel as though...
...Late last week, and with little fanfare, Palin began claiming at rallies and in a radio interview that Obama had once opposed providing medical care for certain newborn babies, who later died. Without any clear context, Palin's statements seemed to suggest that Obama supported a form of infanticide...