POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power
  • About
  • Introduction
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    • All the pages alphabetically >
      • A >
        • Absolute power
        • Anxiety and power
      • B >
        • Bureaucracy and power
        • Benefits of understanding power
        • Buddhism
        • Binary thinking
      • C >
        • Circumstances and Power
        • Choice
        • (Power to) change how you see things
        • Choosing meanings
        • Corrupted by power
      • D >
        • Discovering your power
      • E >
        • Empowerment
        • (Power to) enjoy the moment
        • Entropy and power
      • F >
        • Foucault's "power is everywhere"
        • Free will
      • G >
        • Gender and power
      • H >
        • Having power and using power
        • How everybody is powerful
        • How everybody is powerless
        • Human brain and power
      • I >
        • Improving mental abilities
        • (Power to) improve your mood
        • In control
        • Inequality
        • Influencing each other
        • Intentionality and power
      • L >
        • Language has power over us
        • Limited resources
        • Louis XIV and Absolute Power
      • M >
        • Macropower: Collective Power
        • Main theories of power
        • Making an effort is a prerequisite of using power
        • "May" power
        • Meanings of power that are not directly related to social power
        • Meanings and power
        • Micropower: Individual power
        • Mindfulness
        • Media and Digital Literacy as Forms of Individual Power
        • Mental power
        • (Mis)understanding of power in media texts
        • Money and Power
        • My synesthetic perception of "power"
      • N >
        • (Nature) Power of nature
      • P >
        • Power and knowledge
        • Power as ability
        • Power as a chess game
        • Power as influence
        • Power vs. powerlessness
        • "Power" in language
        • Physical power
        • Power is not a thing
        • Power of speech
        • Power on/off
        • Privilege
      • R >
        • Responsibility, blame and power
      • S >
        • Self-awareness and power
        • Snapshot power
        • Socialization and power
        • Synonyms of power
      • T >
        • Theory of micro- and macropower
      • U >
        • Using power is rewarding
      • V >
        • Vector power
      • W >
        • What is power?
        • Willpower
    • Completed pages
  • Author
    • My creative process

Anxiety and Power

PAGE IN PROGRESS
What you see here is a page of my hypertext book POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power. Initially empty, this page will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! 
Another example: I have been working with my therapist on my anxiety. My anxiety manifests itself in all sorts of ways. For example, sometimes it interferes with my creativity. It manifests in thoughts about imperfection of my work (including this website/book); then, if I manage to shift my thoughts to the idea that my creations are good, then my anxiety has me question whether anybody really cares about outcomes of my work.

In this case power to see things differently would be to remind myself that my perceptions are not an objective reflection of reality but just my anxiety talking. I can remind myself that most of my creative work is open-ended, and that's its beauty (it also means that I always have lots of interesting things to accomplish).
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  • About
  • Introduction
  • Browse the book
    • All the pages alphabetically >
      • A >
        • Absolute power
        • Anxiety and power
      • B >
        • Bureaucracy and power
        • Benefits of understanding power
        • Buddhism
        • Binary thinking
      • C >
        • Circumstances and Power
        • Choice
        • (Power to) change how you see things
        • Choosing meanings
        • Corrupted by power
      • D >
        • Discovering your power
      • E >
        • Empowerment
        • (Power to) enjoy the moment
        • Entropy and power
      • F >
        • Foucault's "power is everywhere"
        • Free will
      • G >
        • Gender and power
      • H >
        • Having power and using power
        • How everybody is powerful
        • How everybody is powerless
        • Human brain and power
      • I >
        • Improving mental abilities
        • (Power to) improve your mood
        • In control
        • Inequality
        • Influencing each other
        • Intentionality and power
      • L >
        • Language has power over us
        • Limited resources
        • Louis XIV and Absolute Power
      • M >
        • Macropower: Collective Power
        • Main theories of power
        • Making an effort is a prerequisite of using power
        • "May" power
        • Meanings of power that are not directly related to social power
        • Meanings and power
        • Micropower: Individual power
        • Mindfulness
        • Media and Digital Literacy as Forms of Individual Power
        • Mental power
        • (Mis)understanding of power in media texts
        • Money and Power
        • My synesthetic perception of "power"
      • N >
        • (Nature) Power of nature
      • P >
        • Power and knowledge
        • Power as ability
        • Power as a chess game
        • Power as influence
        • Power vs. powerlessness
        • "Power" in language
        • Physical power
        • Power is not a thing
        • Power of speech
        • Power on/off
        • Privilege
      • R >
        • Responsibility, blame and power
      • S >
        • Self-awareness and power
        • Snapshot power
        • Socialization and power
        • Synonyms of power
      • T >
        • Theory of micro- and macropower
      • U >
        • Using power is rewarding
      • V >
        • Vector power
      • W >
        • What is power?
        • Willpower
    • Completed pages
  • Author
    • My creative process