LESSER KNOWN PHOBIAS

A PHOBIA is a type of anxiety disorder, defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation. The phobia typically results in a rapid onset of fear and is present for more than six months.

• Cherophobia :

Aversion to happiness, also called cherophobia or fear of happiness, is an attitude towards happiness in which individuals may deliberately avoid experiences that invoke positive emotions or happiness.

• Geliophobia

Geliophobia or also known as fear of laughter is a very common phobia with many people. The geliophobic individual may fear that they will laugh or smile at inappropriate times. Some people coping with this phobia may find jokes, comedies, and funny situations or people a source of anxiety.

• Chronophobia

Chronophobia is defined as the persistent and often irrational fear of the future or the fear of passing time. Since time can be considered as a “specific object”,Chronophobia falls under the category of specific phobias. The word Chronophobia is derived from Greek ‘chronos’ meaning time and phobos meaning fear.

• Autophobia

Autophobia, also called monophobia, isolophobia, or eremophobia, is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated. Sufferers need not be physically alone, but just to believe that they are being ignored or unloved.

• Phobophobia

Phobophobia is the fear of phobia or phobias and, more specifically, of the internal sensations associated with that phobia and anxiety, which binds it closely to other anxiety disorders, especially with generalized anxiety disorders (free floating fears) and panic attacks.

• Phasmophobia

The fear of ghosts is sometimes referred to as phasmophobia and erroneously spectrophobia, the latter being an established term for fear of mirrors and one’s own reflections.

• Catoptrophobia

Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors. The origin of the word catoptro is Greek (meaning mirror) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). This fear could have developed in the early history, when people used to use ponds and still waters as mirrors (or looking glasses).

• Somniphobia

Somniphobia is an uncommon sleep disorder. Somniphobia is the fear of going to sleep.

BABY-CRY SUMO.

It is considered good luck in Japan when a Sumo-Wrestler makes a Baby Cry.

Parents in Japan deliberately hand over their children in the hands of Sumo wrestlers to make them cry in their highest pitch. No doubt that the act is done for the good of the child to follow the old tradition.

The tradition is 400 years old, and it is believed that if a baby cries in the wrestler’s hands, then it will bring good health and fortune to the child. It is also assumed that it will keep the child away from evil spirits. The custom takes place in weird Naki Zumo Japanese festival where all the parents gather and pay up to 70 pounds for such an act. Sumo wrestlers hold the babies in the air and the baby that cries the loudest and for the longest time is announced as the winner. If the child fails to cry, the arbitrator enters the ground and tries to frighten these kids with wacky performances. They wear scary masks and making loud sounds in order to scare them. The yearly festival which has been organized at many holy places and memorials for the past four centuries held at the Kamitori Maekawa shrine in Yokohama this year.

This festival is held together with Japan’s ‘Children Day’ and parents give money up to £70 for the honor of having their child take part.

After the ceremonial ends, the winner is announced and shown to the crowd. Then the cranky and crying children are handed over to their parents. Some parents told that their children do not cry that much at home as they are doing at the festival. Most of the children cry after the referee enters the competition and tries to scare them by wearing scary masks. After the kids get settled down, they pose for the pictures in a good mood.

HALO EFFECT.

What is Halo Effect?

The HALO EFFECT describes a cognitive bias when judging others whereby judgement about that person’s character are influenced by an overall positive impression about that person.

According to researchers, if someone is attractive and charming, you’re more likely to assume they’re intelligent and hardworking even if they are not. known as the “Halo-Effect”, its a theory that our generalized judgements of people can bleed over into the more specific judgements we make about them. Studies show that even though we understand the Halo Effect intellectually, its almost impossible for us to recognize when its actually happening.

“Also known as the physical attractiveness stereotype and the “what is beautiful is good” principle, the halo effect, at the most specific level, refers to the habitual tendency of people to rate attractive individuals more favorably for their personality traits or characteristics than those who are less attractive. Halo effect is also used in a more general sense to describe the global impact of likable personality, or some specific desirable trait, in creating biased judgments of the target person on any dimension. Thus, feelings generally overcome cognitions when we appraise others.”

DIED IN HOUSE.

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CAT AS GOD.

The goddess cat in Egyptian mythology is well known in the world of mythology. The goddess cat was named Bastet, also known as Bast. Bastet was also defender of the chief male deity, Ra, a solar deity. Some referred to Bastet as “Lady of Flame” and “Eye of Ra”.

The Ancient Egyptians held cats in the highest esteem, the penalties for injuring or killing a cat were severe. They worshipped a Cat Goddess, often represented as half feline, half woman, whom they called Bastet. The main center for the worship of Bastet was in northern Egypt at the city of Bubastis. Bastet is the Egyptian goddess of childbirth, fertility, women’s secrets, domesticity, home, and of course, cats. She was believed to protect the home from evil spirits and diseases, especially those associated with women and children. Her secondary roles also included guiding and helping the dead in the afterlife. She was originally known as “B’sst,” which was lengthened to “Ubaste,” then “Bast,” and finally “Bastet.” Although she was greatly respected, Bastet also inspired tremendous fear. This was evidence in some of her titles, including The Lady of Slaughter and The Lady of Dread.

She is associated with Mafdet – the very first feline goddess in Egyptian history who was also the goddess of justice – and Mau – the divine cat and an aspect of Ra. Her role as the protector of the innocent and the avenger of the wronged was inherited from Mafdet. In her association with Mau, Bastet is sometimes depicted destroying Apophis – Ra’s enemy – by chopping his head off with a knife, an image that is synonymous with Mau. Over time, Bastet’s nature watered down from that of a lionine form to that of a familiar companion, often represented as a woman with a cat’s head or just a house cat.

Brain at 24..

Do you know that a human brain starts slowing down when you’re 24?

This is when the reaction time of people playing video games shows the first sign of decline. You’re not getting dumber, though, because your brain begins to compensate by relying on experiences and mental shortcuts – so your thought process actually becomes more efficient. Researchers found that the first sign of a decline in volunteers’ reaction time started at age 24.The wheels in your head might start slowing down at about age 24. That’s according to a new study that says cognitive-motor skills begin to decline at a relatively early age. With older age comes greater experience, which researchers say may compensate for the age-related lag in speed. A recent study out of Germany on the relation between age and brain function likened older people’s decline in cognitive speed to the functionality of older computer hard drives: As more information is uploaded to the brain over time it starts to slow down, in a similar way to how a hard drive with an overabundance of information is slower than a new hard drive.

PANTHEISM.

Ever heard about PANTHEISM?

The Term “Pantheism” comes from the Greek words theism (belief in God) and pan (all). Pantheism is a belief that universe and all things within nature is God. Pantheists do not celebrate a distinct personal or anthropomorphic(human characterized) God, but accept all Gods into worship because “they view God as everything and everyone, and everyone and everything as God”. Firstly, Pantheism rejects the idea that God is “transcendent”. According to traditional western conceptions of God, he is an entity that is above and beyond the universe (although he may be fully present in universe, but he is also outside it). He transcends the totality of objects in the world. The second difference between Pantheism and traditional religions is that Pantheists also reject the idea of God’s “personhood”. The Pantheist God is not a personal God, but the kind of entity that could have beliefs, desires, intensions, or agency.

A Pantheistic does not have a will and cannot act in or upon the universe. These are the kind of things that only a person or a person-like entity can do. For Pantheists, God is a non-personal divinity that pervades all existence. Many other religions have some golden rules that exemplifies human kindness, cooperation and reciprocity. Similarly, Pantheism heeds the golden rules. Pantheists strive and try to treat others as they wish themselves to be treated, but their warm heartedness spreads beyond humankind. Pantheists agree with those who extend the Golden Rule to relations with other life forms and the Earth itself. Showing kindness and consideration to other creatures and to the environment is the natural thing to do (interestingly, the word “kind” comes from the Old English word “gecynde” which means “natural”). Pantheists join with people of goodwill everywhere to tap and expand the underlying human heritage of kindly cooperation.

The Journey Begins

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton