Showing posts with label fears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fears. Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2017

Which is stronger, fear or desire?

The Artdog Quote of the Week 

That's the rub, isn't it?


IMAGE: I found this quote on I Like to Quote, but I made my own graphic for it in Adobe Illustrator, using a photo I took in December 2016 as my background. Use it if you like, but please include an attribution and a link back! Thanks.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Inherited Memories?

I ran across an interesting video on Facebook recently, about research that suggests certain memories (or at least phobias or fears) can be passed from one generation to the next through one's DNA. 

Here's a video that, if you'll be patient with the hosts, actually does explain the study in a clear, straightforward way:



People have talked for a long time about "racial memory" or even (to put a spiritual twist to it) "ancestral curses." Could it be there's an evolutionary adaptation at work here, that might make some aspect of the idea true?

Lots more study needs to be done, before we can say for sure. but it might very helpfully inform the treatment of fears, phobias, PTSD, depression, and a host of related maladies that currently have a lot of us stumped.

VIDEO: Many thanks to The Mind Unleashed and D News, for this video. And to my friend Lynette M. Burrows, for calling my attention to it in the first place.