Ballerinas Battle Fear David Masters Dance specific anxiety and life I was invited to work with a group of about 20 children from all over the world at the prestigious Anaheim Ballet from ages 10 to 18 years on the subject of stage fright, and performance anxiety. Dancers often experience stress while learning new skills […]
Turning The Tables on Anxiety David Masters A 2014 study found that reappraising anxiety as excitement helped people with performance anxiety more than merely focusing on “staying calm.” Another study from 2010 shows that emotional regulation, another term for cognitive reappraisal, can help reduce symptoms of depression. While cognitive reappraisal has been extensively studied with conditions like clinical anxiety […]
Proper Discipline Roy Masters Funny thing about people—if you leave them alone to be free, they take liberties; they become wild and ruthless. Then, when they force you to lay down the law in order that society may survive, you (the rule maker) become a despotic tyrant. This principle marks the beginning and the end […]
Passing On Pain or Power Roy Masters from ‘How To Survive Your Parents’ Crime, delinquency and mental illness, although rooted in individual willfulness and ambition, are actually planted and nurtured by culture. This is precisely the reason why nations cannot solve any of their problems. The stubborn pride of man traditionally points at the symptoms […]
A Nation In Need of A Father Roy Masters “Know that I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before my day comes, that great and terrible day. He shall turn the hearts of the fathers towards their children and the hearts of children towards their fathers, lest I strike the land with the […]
Parents, Politics, and Power Roy Masters What if mother had some unfinished business with her own dad and projected that resentment onto her husband? Then the children would feel what mother feels and end up hating their own father. For one reason or another, women consciously or unconsciously set their husbands up to fail in […]
A Man In God’s Place Roy Masters “I resented you because when you became sick I thought you were going to die.” This man had put me on a pedestal, altered my purpose as his minister, and set me up as his private god in order to save him. He did this despite the fact […]
The Business of Love Roy Masters False love is the greatest corrupter of mankind. It comforts and embraces him, even as it overwhelms his reason and robs him of his sensibilities. When you are loved in a phony way, you place your belief in that superloving being very much as you might believe in God. […]
‘Love’ and Marriage Roy Masters The entire world system is based on a lie, the lie that the relationship between man and woman is one of “love.” In reality, the so-called “love” is nothing but an animal need that man calls “love” is the result of his fall from what love really is. As long […]
Finding Genuine Love Roy Masters A caller to my radio show posed the following question: “It seems to me that you imply that we should be celibate. I say that you cannot do that when you are married. “There are reports that 40 to 50 percent of all women are frigid. They say that this […]
