Fear and its 【小题1】 (company) pain are two of the most useful things that man and animals possess if they are used. A really fearless soldier — and some 【小题2】 exist — is not a good soldier because he is soon killed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards 【小题3】 man and animals might soon die out. In our first sentence we suggested that fear ought to be properly used. The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but instead, to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you   【小题4】 dangers; then you have to decide 【小题5】 you want to take.

In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to avoid the danger. For example, you cannot prevent an airplane crashing into your house, and you may not want to go and live in a desert 【小题6】 there are no airplanes. In this case, fear has given you its warning, you have examined it and decided on your course of action, so fear of the particular danger is no longer of any use to you, which you have to try to overcome.

I 【小题7】 (involve) in this literature and culture for 14 years, searching for personal development ideas and change tools that really make a difference, and these days I believe that there are only two skills that you need to master to progress your life:

1:Getting clear on something that you really want.

2:Transforming the fears that are holding you back from making all 【小题8】 you want a reality.

In fact, I find that it often boils right down to just 【小题9】 (transform) your fears, because much of the time the only reason 【小题10】 you are unclear about what you want is that you are afraid to want something that you want, so your fear obscures your vision of what you want.

Could a hug a day keep the doctor away? The answer may be a loud “yes!” 【小题1】helping you feel close and connected to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can also bring lots of health benefits to your body and mind. Believe it or not, a warm hug【小题2】 even help you avoid getting sick this winter.

In a recent study involving over 400 healthy adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs on the participants’ developing the common cold after【小题3】 (expose) to the virus. People who perceived greater social support were 【小题4】 (likely) to come down with a cold, and the researchers calculated that the stress-reducing effects of hugging explained about 32 percent of that beneficial effect. Even among those 【小题5】 got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more hugs 【小题6】(have) less severe symptoms.

“Hugging protects people who are under stress from the increased risk for colds【小题7】 is usually associated with stress,” notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie. “Hugging is a marker of a very close relationship and helps to cause the feeling that others are there to help in the face of difficulties.”

We touch our faces all the time, and it had never seemed to be a big problem – until COVID-19 arrived. 【小题1】 (touch) our faces – the “T-zone” of our eyes, nose and mouth in particular – can mean giving ourselves the 【小题2】 (dead) virus. This is why 【小题3】 (organization) like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have suggested that we avoid touching our faces. “Just stop this simple behavior,” William Sawyer, founder of Henry the Hand, a nonprofit organization that promotes hand hygiene(卫生), 【小题4】(tell) The Washington Post. “It’s the one behavior 【小题5】 would be better than any vaccine ever created.”

Yet, stopping this “simple” behavior might be harder than you think because it’s already hardwired(固有的) into our system. Some face touching is automatic – like when there is 【小题6】 itch on your nose, you’ll scratch it without thinking. Moreover, face-touching is subconscious, 【小题7】 means it’s very hard to change because you don’t even know you’re doing it. 【小题8】you’re not alone. In a 2015 study, where a group of medical students 【小题9】 (film) in class, it was found that they touched their faces an average of 23 times an hour – with 44 percent of the touches being in the “T-zones”. That was particularly surprising since medical students were supposed 【小题10】(know) better. Since it’s so hard to shake the habit, maybe the easiest way is to wash our hands more often. This way, we can be sure that our hands are free from the novel coronavirus.