Identity attachment is often driven by the need to belong and feel accepted. People may associate with certain identities to feel connected to others who share similar traits or beliefs, creating a strong sense of community and validation.By identifying with a group, individuals can establish a sense of belonging and acceptance. This can boost confidence and self-worth.<ul><li>Often from a desire for belonging and acceptance.</li><li>By aligning with certain identities, people may feel a sense of connection to others who share similar characteristics or values.</li></ul>

2. Sense of Belonging

Identity attachment involves a deep emotional investment in the chosen identities. Individuals may derive their self-worth, confidence, and validation from these identities, leading them to defend or uphold them vigorously in the face of challenges or criticism.

4. Emotional Investment

Here's an overview of the psychology behind identity attachment:1. Formation of Identity2. Sense of Belonging3. Self-Definition4. Emotional Investment5. Impact on Behavior6. Resistance to Change7. Potential Pitfalls

Identity attachment

In the journey of life, we all try to understand ourselves and figure out who we are as individuals. This is known as identity formation, and it is a process that starts when we are young and evolves as we grow. Social interactions, family dynamics, cultural backgrounds, and personal experiences all play a role in shaping our identity.As we develop a sense of self, we may connect to particular labels or roles that reflect who we are and shape our identity. It is an ongoing process that is influenced by various factors, and it continues until the end.

1. Formation of Identity

Identity attachment can influence various aspects of behavior, including decision-making, social interactions, and self-expression. Individuals may engage in behaviors that align with their chosen identities and avoid situations or people that threaten these identities.

5. Impact on Behavior

The psychology of identity attachment explores how people form strong emotional connections to specific aspects of their identity, such as labels, roles, or characteristics, and how these attachments influence their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

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Are you a controlling parent?Are you devoting too much attention to your child? If the answer is yes,Then turn some of that attention toward your parents. If you are good to your own parents,Then your child will learn how to treat you in the future.

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The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of Love for Imperfect Things “Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.” —Elle Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life. By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

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The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of Love for Imperfect Things “Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.” —Elle Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life. By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

Zen Buddhist teacher, bestselling author & founder of the School for Broken Hearts in Seoul.Born in South Korea and educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training from Haein monastery, South Korea and taught Asian religions at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for seven years.He is one of the most influential Zen monks in the world, with over 1.5 million followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. His first book, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has been translated into more than 35 different languages and sold over four million copies.His second book, Love for Imperfect Things was the number one bestseller of the year 2016 in South Korea and became available in multiple languages in 2019.

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<ul><li>new animal parenting style called the “elephant mom,” is focuses on protection and encouragement the child. </li><li>Like giraffes, elephants share in the responsibility of caring and defending their young. Elephant moms will often come together to protect and save a baby elephant, even at their own risk.</li><li>Elephants are loving creatures and moms stay close to their babies, bringing them back to the fold if they wander away, bathing them, nursing them, and teaching them survival skills. </li><li> And elephants stay with their mothers for an average of 16 years. </li></ul>

Elephant 

<ul><li>The orangutan mother–infant bond is one of the most intense and intimate I’ve ever seen in any animal</li><li>Orangutan mothers carry their babies around until they are five years old and they can breast feed them until they are eight years old</li><li>When they do eventually leave “home,” the female orangutans will often come back for visits with their moms.</li><li>Young orangutans learn nearly everything they need to know from their mothers. </li></ul>

Orangutan

<ul><li>The cheetah mom is a hard-working single mother, having to raise between two and eight cubs at a time. </li><li>In addition to feeding and teaching them, she must protect them from lions, hyenas, and other predators. </li><li>To keep her litter safe, the mother cheetah moves her cubs to a new location every few days. </li><li>The babies nurse until they are about eight months old and then they begin to learn to stalk and hunt, getting lessons from mom and practice time with their siblings.</li></ul>

Cheetah

<ul><li>A mother polar bear must gain extra weight—more than 400 pounds—to ensure the fetus is not reabsorbed by her body</li><li>She doesn’t eat for a few months while she goes into a hibernation state before giving birth</li><li>Her cubs are tiny—just one pound—and helpless when born, but even as they get bigger, they stay near their moms for two to three years learning how to survive</li></ul>

Polar Bear

<ul><li>are highly protective of their young baby</li><li>after birth, they clean the baby, clear his nasal passages, and gentile cradled him</li></ul>

Gorilla

<ul><li>Giraffes gave birth after a pregnancy of 15 month</li><li>Since the young giraffes cannot run fast, its mother will hide it or leave it with other mother giraffe “babysitters”—known as a creche—while she looks for food</li><li>Like humans, [the baby giraffes] will start to miss their mother and will wait for her where she was last seen until she comes back</li><li>Like most moms, giraffes don’t get much sleep. They are always on guard, protecting themselves and their offspring, so they only get about 30 minutes of sleep a day, usually just a few minutes at a time.</li></ul>

Giraffe

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These six amazing animal mothers protect and care for their adorable babies in such inspirational ways. And this video of Calaya and her baby Moke, from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, will show you why gorillas make the list.

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The is an important distinction between an inherent characteristic, rooted in an individual without regard to his environment, and a response to the environment, a pattern of behaviours developed to ensure survival.&nbsp;

Characteristic vs Response to the environment

What there is in a "controlling" personality is deep anxiety, a desparate response to emotional deprivation. The drive to conttrol is not an innate trait but a coping style. Emotional repression is a coping style rathen then a personality traits set in stone. "My mother and fatheer needed me to be happy" is the simple formula that trained many a child - later a streessed and depressed ot physically ill adult - into lifelong patterns of repression.&nbsp;

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this accessible and groundbreaking book -- filled with the moving stories of real people -- medical doctor and bestselling author of Scattered Minds, Gabor Maté, shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness. Western medicine achieves spectacular triumphs when dealing with acute conditions such as fractured bones or life-threatening infections. It is less successful against ailments not susceptible to the quick ministrations of scalpel, antibiotic or miracle drug. Trained to consider mind and body separately, physicians are often helpless in arresting the advance of most of the chronic diseases, such as breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and even Alzheimer’s disease. Gabor Maté has found that in all of these chronic conditions, there is a common thread: people afflicted by these diseases have led lives of excessive stress, often invisible to the individuals themselves. From an early age, many of us develop a psychological coping style that keeps us out of touch with the signs of stress. So-called negative emotions, particularly anger, are suppressed. Dr. Maté writes with great conviction that knowledge of how stress and disease are connected is essential to prevent illness in the first place, or to facilitate healing. When the Body Says No is an impressive contribution to current research on the physiological connection between life’s stresses and emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus and hormones. With great compassion and erudition, Gabor Maté demystifies medical science and, as he did in Scattered Minds, invites us all to be our own health advocates. Excerpt from When the Body Says No “Only an intellectual luddite would deny the enormous benefits that have accrued to humankind from the scrupulous application of scientific methods. But not all aspects of illness can be reduced to facts verified by double-blind studies and by the strictest scientific techniques. We confine ourselves to a narrow realm indeed if we exclude from accepted knowledge the contributions of human experience and insight. . . . “In 1892 William Osler, one of the greatest physicians of all time, suspected rheumatoid arthritis to be a stress-related disorder. Today rheumatology all but ignores that wisdom, despite the supporting scientific evidence that has accumulated in the 110 years since Osler first published his text. That is where the narrow scientific approach has brought the practice of medicine. Elevating modern science to be the final arbiter of our sufferings, we have been too eager to discard the insights of previous ages.”

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If we want to make changes in some of the dynamics between us and our children, first realize that there no such thing as a perfect parent or anything close to a perfect parent Children actually are on a slower frequency than us. So while it may seem like their call to mommy needs an immediate response, they’re actually not ready to take in an immediate response.

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“They call me from where they are instead of coming to me.”  Let them call from where they are. It’s okay. It’s safe for them to do that. If we don’t respond in a way that makes that work for them, then they’ll come over.  They’re going to share every little thing with us. It’s not an emergency.

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