Emotional distance

Where do children fit in so arid a landscape The emotional numbness that this parent describes has received relatively little attention and yet it is how this translates into an emotional unavailability that seems, by the accounts of parents and their children, to be most damaging. Drugs become so absorbing that they reduce parent-child relationships to being seen as burdensome obligations such that it is possible for a parent to say it s funny you don t really realize they re there... (Ariana). Even those parents who considered that their drug problem was sufficiently under control not to compromise the safety of children had a sense of the emotional distance that drugs put between them. 

Psychological distance The leader must be capable of emotionally distancing himself or herself from the process in order to be able to monitor it and direct it. Such a behavior is very difficult because the leader is probably the best qualified to become a Synector. Therefore, he or she contributes to the session in so many ways that in the process they become emotionally engaged. In fact, this is a contradiction. The leader should simultaneously be emotionally involved so as to... 

That s what I have. That s my core. It s a bit similar to when I was a long-distance runner. The discipline acquired through marathon training has prepared me to overcome emotional, physical and professional challenges. 

Remember, my liege, he advises, That it is not in physical distance but in selfish emotional and mental vibrations that there lies the only real distance between you and the rest of life. You are indeed, now and always, one with all that lives. ... 

The incident scene is sometimes a desirable location for the interview. When the interview is conducted at the incident scene, it will seem less like an interview and more like an informal discussion this will help to relax the witness. The visual cues at the incident scene may help the witness to remember information. The witness will also have something to do during the interview, walking around and pointing out equipment, which will put him more at ease so he will tend to talk more. There is also a great deal of information that the witness will commimicate at the incident scene that they may not otherwise think to tell the interviewer, for example, the distance between a valve and indicator. However, there are some reasons not to conduct the interview at the accident scene. They include the potential distractions at the scene such as other personnel, repair activities, demolition activities, the presence of other potential witnesses, unsafe conditions. In addition, poor weather can also be a problem. Finally, the accident scene may be too emotionally painful for the witness, especially if a friend of the witness was injured or killed. 

But you get more. A map is a tool that relates objects to each other. These relations may be distances as they appear on a roadmap, it may be frequencies or densities on a web exploration map or it may be metabolism-emotion relationships in a brain map. Hence the pharmacophoric map can be used as a filter by matching the property vectors and a library of synthetic and/or virtual ligands, sorting out putative binders. 

Both A and B are shown in Figure 13.3. The factor A is the stress difference ( remote S) evaluated at the interface, and the factor B is the distance from the interface where (S emote bas diminished to 1/e times its interface value. 

The writer s choice of words will make it easier to relate emotion to plot. Direct, active words convey more feeling than indirect, passive words. Too many words can be a barrier as well. The conditional tense distances the... 

What a bundle of contradictions Libra can be. On the one hand, you re ruled by seductive Venus, and relationships are essential to you. Longing for love, you instinctively look to romantic partners to balance your inadequacies and stabilize you. On the other hand, you re an air sign, ruled by your head — not your heart. Thanks to your refined sensibilities and visceral distaste for tear-soaked melodramas, you unconsciously preserve a distance meant to protect you from conflict and emotional chaos. In relationships, as in other areas of life, you often end up in an internal tug-of-war, first drawing close to the object of your affection, and then pulling away. Not surprisingly, your ambivalence may strike the other person as manipulative. 

The eyes seem to look upwards and into the distance without definite aim. This...gives us an impression of a great inner emotion, one might almost say of suffering. This god does not stand before us in Olympian calm he is assailed as it were by the sufferings of men, which it is his vocation to assuage. ... 

When an individual over-compensates for an underlying EMS, they behave as if the opposite of the EMS were true in an attempt to distance themselves from it. Thus, it is proposed that workaholism is an attempting to undo previous failures (Machlowitz 1980). In childhood, these individuals may have been made to feel fundamentally inadequate relative to their peers in areas of achievement such as academia or sports, and to feel that they were less successful than others. It is postulated that children who have been economically, socially or emotionally deprived, or who have experienced love as being conditional upon success, may be more prone to become workaholics in adulthood (Machlowitz 1980 Oates 1971 Thorne 1987). 

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