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Healthy feelings, and an effective way of managing these, can turn out very critical in such a highly primed environment as the stock market. IT IS easy to believe that health issues are off-limits in the “unemotional world of finance.” But if you had been into the stock market, it will not take long to see that people connected to it—brokers, market makers, dealers, and investors—are nothing but. Well, that depends on your investment strategy. Stock traders who ride on the second-to-second movement of stocks in the Philippine Stock Exchange will experience fear and ecstasy, and shades of these emotions in between, depending on which direction their holdings are moving for the moment. If their stocks came on breaking ceiling prices, they will thank heaven for being born. But when the market hits bottom for many days or weeks, you will hear from news reports that someone came to believe that the top of a high-rise building is just a step away to the streets below. The emo

Sometimes dreams can be more than just some nocturnal fantasies of the mind. They can be warnings for disasters to come, or perhaps a means to talk to an angel. POPULAR author John Farris wrote in his novel, The Fury and the Power (2003): “There is always too much to see when you are awake. Dreams are the refreshments of the weary eye, as well as the actuality of other layers of existence—fantastic, subtle, strange.” Even before the birth of psychology, dreams had been subject of many stories both through flights of fantasy and of seeming believable theories. Trailblazers in psychiatry such as Carl Jung believe that dreams can be a window to the unconscious, a depository of things that the conscious human being may find so traumatic to bring to mind. In short, dreams provide a snapshot on what bones had been hidden in the closet... [ READ MORE ] This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 2 November 2011.