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August 2008 
Are we Security Addicts?
Posted on Aug 3rd, 2008
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Anitta
Anitta
I found this very resonating article written by Mariana Bozesan and co-authored by Patricia von Papstein.
I met Mariana F2F in July - together with Albert, my partner and Tom, her husband - in Berlin Adlon Hotel, near Brandenburg Gate. It was a vivid conversation where European and Californian perspectives met each other.
Business and Consciousness, New Female and Masculine dynamics in global communication, Security needs and emergence of integral freedom. Emotional Intelligence and cognitive rides. Health and Wealth. Family and Communities. Children and adults. Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Ken Wilber, David Deida, Marianne Williiamson,
and lots of others.
While Mariana comes from a top pofessional business background My own focuses are described here and there and here too.
As emotional and material security all played a great role in my life as mother, grandmother, sister, wife and daughter. I am newly discovering freedom in new roads.
For decades security and freedom were contradictions for me.I couldn´t see that it is a paradoxon in reality. No either or. It´s about growth. And no new continents could be discovered without leaving the old shorelines.
As emotional and material security all played a great role in my life as mother, grandmother, sister, wife and daughter. I am newly discovering freedom in new roads.
For decades security and freedom were contradictions for me.I couldn´t see that it is a paradoxon in reality. No either or. It´s about growth. And no new continents could be discovered without leaving the old shorelines.
I sensed a living and vibrating atmosphere which comprehended any single and personal specialities.
This was our first F2F meeting and it was so inspiring and cordially, warm and trusting. And we laughed very, very often. :):):)
I even imagined how it would have been if we had been together some more hours or days.......
And heres finally to the article:
This was our first F2F meeting and it was so inspiring and cordially, warm and trusting. And we laughed very, very often. :):):)
I even imagined how it would have been if we had been together some more hours or days.......
And heres finally to the article:
Are We Security Addicts?
Swiss article from GDI Impuls No. 2/2008 on humanity's security wounds
by Mariana Bozesan
The latest neuro-scientific research performed by Princeton professor Kahneman and the late Stanford professor Tversky indicates that at our core we are irrationally risk averse. The fear of losing something feels twice as bad as gaining the same thing feels good.
However, our security wounds are nothing else but fear and with brain imaging technology, we can show physiologically that our pain avoidance tendency is deeply ingrained in the seat of our emotions, the limbic circuit in the brain (Kolb & Whishaw, 2003). Not only that, but according to Shiv & Knutson of Stanford University we have only now begun to understand how emotions are influencing our decision making process.
Meanwhile, what can give us an ultimate sense of security? How can we avoid being manipulated by the fear-based products and services that overwhelm us every day?
What makes us feel more secure is probably different for everybody. However, I believe that we can only heal what we are aware of and that our security wounds can best be made visible through our relationship with money. In general, it would be fair to assume that for most people, financial abundance would give them the feeling of more security through power, a heightened sense of protection, more insurances, firewalls, homeland security, and so on.
Yet, the subject of money is an emotionally charged subject in our society. While we believe that money would make us feel more secure, talking about money brings one of two reactions in people: (a) either it is very positive and they get really excited about it wanting to discuss ways to improve their financial situation, or (b) the opposite is the case and they would rather talk about their sexual lives than their finances. Many people hate it, find money evil, suspect, and want to avoid the topic at all cost. The result often shows up in these people’s lives as poverty, addictions to food, alcohol or drugs, lack of meaning, wars, and, of course, as security wounds.
Swiss article from GDI Impuls No. 2/2008 on humanity's security wounds
by Mariana Bozesan
The latest neuro-scientific research performed by Princeton professor Kahneman and the late Stanford professor Tversky indicates that at our core we are irrationally risk averse. The fear of losing something feels twice as bad as gaining the same thing feels good.
However, our security wounds are nothing else but fear and with brain imaging technology, we can show physiologically that our pain avoidance tendency is deeply ingrained in the seat of our emotions, the limbic circuit in the brain (Kolb & Whishaw, 2003). Not only that, but according to Shiv & Knutson of Stanford University we have only now begun to understand how emotions are influencing our decision making process.
Meanwhile, what can give us an ultimate sense of security? How can we avoid being manipulated by the fear-based products and services that overwhelm us every day?
What makes us feel more secure is probably different for everybody. However, I believe that we can only heal what we are aware of and that our security wounds can best be made visible through our relationship with money. In general, it would be fair to assume that for most people, financial abundance would give them the feeling of more security through power, a heightened sense of protection, more insurances, firewalls, homeland security, and so on.
Yet, the subject of money is an emotionally charged subject in our society. While we believe that money would make us feel more secure, talking about money brings one of two reactions in people: (a) either it is very positive and they get really excited about it wanting to discuss ways to improve their financial situation, or (b) the opposite is the case and they would rather talk about their sexual lives than their finances. Many people hate it, find money evil, suspect, and want to avoid the topic at all cost. The result often shows up in these people’s lives as poverty, addictions to food, alcohol or drugs, lack of meaning, wars, and, of course, as security wounds.
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Thanks Anitta!
I remember our animated conversations…and the article of Mariana is adressing lots of it what we felt at a cognitive level.
Was really interesting how Mariana described her long years of personal working with Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Oracle Chief Lary Ellison and lots of others in this personal way.
And how much communication is needed again and again to bridge transtatlantic gaps. Though Mariana was born in Eastern Europe and Tom even near Berlin. Will check out Toms Churchill Club and others when we visit them in California at the other side of the big pond:):)
The article is reflecting lots of emotional stuff which has intercultural implications in vast dimensions!
Thanks for posting it..
Albert
very interesting thanks”!
I find the article not only interesting, but highly relvant.
it adresses fundamental issues about money and emotions. Themes like money, sex, power ,food…..reveal hidden mindsets, hidden agendas and hidden addictions, blind spots and uninspected rabbit wholes of areas beneath the brain. As Lipton rightly says in the article.
Deep primal impulses and an atmosphere of poltical, spiritual and sexual correctness are contradictory. There are tensions which need widest perspectives and freedom of mind, emotion, body and spirit. And an integrity in hearts and minds to face it all. To an intimidating yet most valuable degree of honesty.
Pushing through the limits of beeing nice guys and girls.
Thats a wild endevor. And demands not faking ones real edge at the heart—-