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The Psychology of Hope - Warriors for Life (WFL) Virtual Group Support - Sunday Night!
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https://www.victoryforveterans.org/post/the-psychology-of-hope-warriors-for-life-wfl-virtual-group-support-sunday-night
Sunday's Topic: "The Psychology of Hope!"
We all know that hope is a good thing, even an essential thing: there is no life without hope, or so the saying goes. Psychologists believe hope might be the most important feeling, state, or emotion we can experience.
Hope represents an adaptive ‘middle ground’ between the over-activated ‘stress response’ and the disengaged ‘giving-up complex.' At the physiological level, hopefulness can help to impart a balance of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity while assuring appropriate levels of neurotransmitters, hormones, lymphocytes, and other critical health-related substances. Equally important, a hopeful attitude may permit an individual to sustain this healthy ‘internal environment’ in the presence of enormous adversity.
Hope has a strong spiritual (and transpersonal) dimension. It is associated with virtues such as patience, gratitude, charity, and faith. “Faith is the building block of hope.”
NEW TIMES
Warriors for Life Group Support Community Service - Sunday, 15 December 2019 at 4:30 PM PT, 5:30 PM MT, 6:30 PM CT, and 7:30 PM ET
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Veteran and Therapist PO3 Christopher St. John will be hosting tonight and is inviting you to a RingCentral meeting.
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Thanks,
PO3 Christopher St. John
Dial in for Warriors for Life (WFL) Virtual Group Support Sunday evening with Veteran and Therapist PO3 Christopher St. John!
https://www.victoryforveterans.org/post/the-psychology-of-hope-warriors-for-life-wfl-virtual-group-support-sunday-night
Sunday's Topic: "The Psychology of Hope!"
We all know that hope is a good thing, even an essential thing: there is no life without hope, or so the saying goes. Psychologists believe hope might be the most important feeling, state, or emotion we can experience.
Hope represents an adaptive ‘middle ground’ between the over-activated ‘stress response’ and the disengaged ‘giving-up complex.' At the physiological level, hopefulness can help to impart a balance of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity while assuring appropriate levels of neurotransmitters, hormones, lymphocytes, and other critical health-related substances. Equally important, a hopeful attitude may permit an individual to sustain this healthy ‘internal environment’ in the presence of enormous adversity.
Hope has a strong spiritual (and transpersonal) dimension. It is associated with virtues such as patience, gratitude, charity, and faith. “Faith is the building block of hope.”
NEW TIMES
Warriors for Life Group Support Community Service - Sunday, 15 December 2019 at 4:30 PM PT, 5:30 PM MT, 6:30 PM CT, and 7:30 PM ET
Dial in 5-10 minutes early to test your communications!
Veteran and Therapist PO3 Christopher St. John will be hosting tonight and is inviting you to a RingCentral meeting.
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/ [login to see]
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll):
+ [login to see] ,, [login to see] #
Or Telephone: Dial:
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Meeting ID: [login to see]
Thanks,
PO3 Christopher St. John
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LTC Stephen F. SP5 Mark Kuzinski COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Maj William W. "Bill" Price SPC Margaret HigginsMaj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SGT Steve McFarland LTC (Join to see) PO3 Craig Phillips Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll PO1 H Gene Lawrence TSgt Joe C. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt (Join to see) SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSG Donald H "Don" Bates Cpl (Join to see) PVT Mark Zehner
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Your spirit is broken if you do not have hope. After much rumination, I created hope for myself by listing the reasons to live. My reason to live was my family. I was at one point in the darkness completely devoid of light until I realized no matter how great the pain was, my choice was to get up and fight every day. I was thrust into a war I was not prepared for and realized clarity would come only after a long campaign.
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One of the most fascinating phrases I learned in Latin was "Dum spiro spero" (While I breathe, I hope). The fascinating part is the similarity in the root words spiro - I breathe (synonymous with live) and spero - I hope. The similarity of the words in Latin emphasizes the the relationship between life and hope. I suspect that many like me who have lived more than a few decades, have personal experience watching friends and family slowly die as hope is lost.
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