[New post] Learn how our MIND plays tricks on us!

Sheena George posted: " Our thoughts have a great impact on how we feel and how we behave. Everyone falls into cognitive distortions on occasion. It's part of the human experience. This happens particularly when we're feeling down. A cognitive distortion — and there a" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on My Journey Towards Psychology Learn how our MIND plays tricks on us! by Sheena George Our thoughts have a great impact on how we feel and how we behave. Everyone falls into cognitive distortions on occasion. It's part of the human experience. This happens particularly when we're feeling down. A cognitive distortion — and there are many — is an exaggerated pattern of thought that's not based on facts. It consequently leads you to view things more negatively than they really are. In other words, cognitive distortions are your mind convincing you to believe negative things about yourself and your world that are not necessarily true. But if you engage too frequently in them, your mental health can take a hit. When you treat these negative thoughts as facts, you may see yourself and act in a way based on faulty assumptions. This could contribute to mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. Reversing cognitive distortions is often at the heart of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), among other types of psychotherapy. You can learn to identify cognitive distortions so that you'll know when your mind is playing tricks on you. Then you can reframe and redirect your thoughts so that they have less of a negative impact on your mood and behaviors. In 1976, psychologist Aaron Beck proposed the theory behind cognitive distortions, and in the 1980s, David Burns popularized it with common names and examples. Cognitive Distortions: ALL OR NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. OVERGENERALIZATION: You see a single negative event as a never ending pattern of defeat. MENTAL FILTER: You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water. DISQUALIFYING THE POSITIVE: You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or another. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS: You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. (a)Mind Reading: You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting negatively to you, and you don't bother to check this out. (b)The Fortune Teller Error: You anticipate that things will turn out badly, and you feel convinced that your prediction is an already established fact. Magnification (Catastrophizing) Or Minimization: You exaggerate the importance of things (such as your goof up or someone else's achievement) or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny (your own desirable qualities or the other fellow's imperfections). This is also called the "binocular trick". Emotional Reasoning: You assume that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are : "I feel it, therefore it must be true. Should Statements: You try to motivate yourself with shoulds and shouldn'ts, as if you had to be punished before you could be expected to do anything. "Musts" and "oughts" are also offenders. The emotional consequence is guilt. When you direct your 'should' statements toward others, you feel anger, frustration, and resentment. Labeling And Mislabeling: This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of  describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself: "I'm a loser." When someone else's behaviour rubs you the wrong way, you attach a negative label to him: "He's such a loser" Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded. Personalization: You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which in fact you were not primarily responsible for. How to stop cognitive distortions? Most irrational patterns of thought can be reversed once you're aware of them. This applies to negative thinking, too. Still, cognitive distortions sometimes go hand in hand with mental health conditions, such as personality disorders. This makes it more challenging to reframe. Reaching out to a mental health professional can help if you feel the process is too overwhelming. Meanwhile, try to remember that it's not the events but your thoughts that upset you in many instances. You might not be able to change the events, but you can work on redirecting your thoughts. Beginning with small changes can be helpful. I hope this information helped you. By, Sheena George. This free site is ad-supported. Learn more ​ Sheena George | November 1, 2021 at 8:35 am | Tags: cbt, cognitive psychology, distortion, mind, Psychology | Categories: Psychology | URL: https://wp.me/pcfUzl-pa Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from My Journey Towards Psychology. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://myjourneytowardspsychology.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/learn-how-our-mind-plays-tricks-on-us/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

[New post] Huawei announces AppsUP 2021 winners for Asia-Pacific

edd1994 posted: " SINGAPORE, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) officially announced the Asia Pacific winners of the AppsUP 2021, HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest. AppsUP is the global mobile app development contest held annually by Huawei, ai" New post on SDN -- Science & Digital News Huawei announces AppsUP 2021 winners for Asia-Pacific by edd1994 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) officially announced the Asia Pacific winners of the AppsUP 2021, HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest. AppsUP is the global mobile app development contest held annually by Huawei, aiming to inspire and attract talented developers across the world to create innovative apps by leveraging HMS Core open capabilities. Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) officially announced the Asia Pacific winners of the AppsUP 2021, HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest. 20 innovative apps leveraging HMS Core capabilities across the areas of health, gaming, utilities and more bagged home a total of US$200,000 cash prizes. Visit https://bit.ly/appsupapac-top20winners for the full winner list. In APAC's edition, the contest acknowledged 20 outstanding apps across the region with cash prize rewards amounting to US$200,000 across 10 different categories. In addition to the existing award categories – "Best App", "Best Game", "Best Social Impact Award", "Honourable Award" and "Most Popular App Award" from last year, AppsUP 2021 saw the introduction of five new award categories to extend support to more developer groups within the community such as students and women. These new categories are – "AppGallery Rising Star App", "Best Fintech Innovation Award", "Best HMS Core Innovation Award", "Excellent Student Award" and "Tech Women's Award". The winning apps of AppsUP 2021 APAC are: Award Category Winning App Best App Award (US$15,000 each) -  Rumah Kisah (Indonesia) -  FareFirst (India) Best Game Award (US$15,000 each) -  Color Ball Adventure (Vietnam) -  Stick Clash (Vietnam) Best HMS Core Innovation Award (US$15,000 each) -  Land of Calm (Sri Lanka) -  Notify Me (Thailand) Best Social Impact (US$15,000 each) -  Plano - Parental Control & Kids Screen Time App (Singapore) Best Fintech Innovation Award (US$10,000 each) -  Smart Invoice (Malaysia) Tech Women's Award (US$10,000 each) -  Water The Farm (Indonesia) -  BloodBank (Malaysia) AppGallery Rising Star App (US$8,000 each) -  Candybots Alphabet ABC Tracing (Vietnam) -  ICC (International Covid Center) (Indonesia) -  KonsultaMD (Philippines) -  Scanee (Sri Lanka) -  Stickman Cartoon : 1 - 4 players (Vietnam) Excellent Student Award (US$5,000 each) -  Paws - Group Debt Book (Malaysia) -  SmartReader (Sri Lanka) -  VQH Weather (Vietnam) Honourable Award (US$3,500 each) -  BookDoc (Malaysia) -  PH Weather And Earthquake Updates (Philippines) Most Popular App Award (US$3,000 each) -  Plano - Parental Control & Kids Screen Time App (Singapore) Innovations in Health and Wellness One third of the 20 winning apps this year belong to the field of health and wellness, offering solutions to address physical, mental, and social health. For example, Singapore's "Plano" is a science-based parental control and eye health app for parents and children. The app integrates with HMS' Machine Learning Kit (ML Kit) to enable real-time camera preview to detect child's posture and face-to-screen distance when in active mode. The app was also the only one bagging two awards this year, for the "Best Social Impact Award" and the "Most Popular App Award". Clinching the newly added Tech's Women's Award, the "Bloodbank" app connects blood banks, donors and recipients on one common platform. Developed by three student developers from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Malaysia, the team's female member played a crucial role in the development of the "Blood Request" function, which allows blood recipients to register their requests in detail, indicate hospital location, blood type and unit required easily through the app. Best HMS Core Innovation Award winner – "Land of Calm" enhances the user's mental health status by providing sound-guided meditations, breathing exercises, stories and soothing music. The sound-guided and storytelling features are made possible through the utilization of Audio Kit and ML Kit's text-to-speech capabilities. Game Apps Ranked High According to App Annie, Games are the most downloaded app category globally in 2020, accounting for over 40% percent of all downloads. Echoing the global trend, it was no surprise to see Game apps making the finals. Five of the AppsUP2021 winners were games, ranging from role-playing to puzzle games. Both winning apps for the "Best Game Award" hail from Vietnam. "Color Ball Adventure" is an adventure game where players control a coloured ball to overcome obstacles. While "Stick Clash" is a stickman puzzle strategy game where players control an army of stick figures to pass through over 350 levels. One of the AppGallery Rising Star Award winners, "CandyBots Alphabet ABC Tracing" gamifies the child learning process. The app enables toddlers to practise letters tracing, use flashcards to spell new words, and even watch cartoons to expand their vocabulary. Encouraging App Creativities across All Levels of Developers Since its global launch in 2018 April, HUAWEI's app store, AppGallery, has grown to become the top three largest app market with over 560 million of monthly active users worldwide. By the end of September 2021, the number of developers in Huawei's ecosystem has also reached 5.1 million. This ecosystem growth also reflects an opportunity for app developers, as can be seen through the results of AppsUP 2021. In APAC, this year's contest saw close to 50% more team registrations and almost twice the number of app submissions compared to the previous year "AppsUP 2021 complements other resources and programmes available to developers in the region to fuel innovation through the HMS ecosystem. The newly added award categories garnered tremendous interests from a wider group of developers. Particularly the AppGallery Rising Star Award, Excellent Student Award and Tech Women's Award, which provide a platform for budding, female and student developers to realise their app creativity and get rewarded through this initiative," said Shane Shan, Director of Huawei Asia Pacific Consumer Cloud Service. "HMS would like to extend our warmest congratulations to the winners of this year's AppsUP 2021 APAC contest. We hope all developers can continue to innovate in the HMS fully open ecosystem; together, we can build a fully-connected, intelligent world," added Shan. All the winning apps are now available on HUAWEI AppGallery for users to download and use. For full winner list, please visit: https://bit.ly/appsupapac-top20winners. edd1994 | November 1, 2021 at 9:30 am | Categories: PR Newswire | URL: https://wp.me/paaccn-dTL Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from SDN -- Science & Digital News. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? 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[New post] The first fully managed MQTT 5.0 cloud service worldwide announces a cheaper payment method

edd1994 posted: " The newly-supported annual package payment will enable EMQ X Cloud users to get high-quality cloud service at a lower cost. HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EMQ, the leader of open-source and cloud-native distributed MQTT broker for IoT, rec" New post on SDN -- Science & Digital News The first fully managed MQTT 5.0 cloud service worldwide announces a cheaper payment method by edd1994 The newly-supported annual package payment will enable EMQ X Cloud users to get high-quality cloud service at a lower cost. HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EMQ, the leader of open-source and cloud-native distributed MQTT broker for IoT, recently released the updated version of EMQ X Cloud which provides a fully managed cloud-native MQTT messaging service. Starting from this version, EMQ X Cloud officially supports the annual package payment method, which will bring users a reduction of their usage cost. As the first fully managed MQTT 5.0 public cloud service worldwide, EMQ X Cloud provides an MQTT messaging service with a one-stop operation and maintenance management and a unique isolation environment. In the era of the Internet of Everything, EMQ X Cloud can help users quickly build industry applications for the IoT area, and easily realize the collection, transmission, calculation and persistence of IoT data. Pay-as-you-go & annual package, select as you need Previously, EMQ X Cloud adopted a pay-as-you-go payment method. At the beginning of each month, the bill was calculated and deducted based on the user's actual usage in the previous month. This method is very suitable for users who have just started using MQTT services and have not yet accurately predicted the amount of device access. It can save the infrastructure cost of users to the greatest extent and focus their cost on key services. The newly-added annual package payment method is more suitable for scenarios where the amount of device access can be estimated. According to the estimated amount of access, one year's cost is paid in advance, which can save about 15% compared with the pay-as-you-go payment method. If the business needs change in the middle of the process and the capacity needs to be expanded, the user can get the remaining amount refunded after the current consumption is settled according to the actual consumption, and then repurchase the service according to the specifications after capacity expansion. Users will always get easy-to-use, reliable, and real-time MQTT messaging services to accelerate business innovation regardless which payment method is selected. Fully managed & cloud-native, low-cost reliable cloud service Since its release, EMQ X Cloud has helped tens of thousands of global users connect to massive IoT devices through reliable and real-time IoT data movement, processing and integration, and has eliminated the burden of infrastructure management and maintenance for users to accelerate business delivery and innovation, and quickly build industrial applications in the field of IoT. In the future, EMQ will continue to provide high-quality products and services, and work with users in various industries around the world to create a competitive and future-oriented IoT platform and applications. About EMQ EMQ (EMQ Technologies Co., Ltd.) is an open source IoT data infrastructure software provider, which delivers the leading open source MQTT broker and stream processing database around the world. With one-stop solutions based on cloud-native and edge computing technology to realize real-time data connection, movement, processing and analysis from edge to cloud, we help to build "future-proof" IoT platform and application, powering the digital transformation of enterprises. For any further inquires, please visit https://www.emqx.com/en or contact us at cloud-support@emqx.io. edd1994 | November 1, 2021 at 10:15 am | Categories: PR Newswire | URL: https://wp.me/paaccn-dTG Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from SDN -- Science & Digital News. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://scitechanddigital.news/2021/11/01/the-first-fully-managed-mqtt-5-0-cloud-service-worldwide-announces-a-cheaper-payment-method/

[New post] Flashback: Samsung S8500 Wave, the first phone with Super AMOLED and first with Bada OS

Techie.Buzz posted: " Do you know which was the first phone with a Super AMOLED display? Some of you may have answered "the original Galaxy S", but that is not the case - if you read our story of OLED displays on mobile phones you will know that it was the Samsung S8500 W" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Techie.Buzz Flashback: Samsung S8500 Wave, the first phone with Super AMOLED and first with Bada OS by Techie.Buzz Do you know which was the first phone with a Super AMOLED display? Some of you may have answered "the original Galaxy S", but that is not the case - if you read our story of OLED displays on mobile phones you will know that it was the Samsung S8500 Wave, which beat the Galaxy S to market by two months. Link: Flashback: Samsung S8500 Wave, the first phone with Super AMOLED and first with Bada OS via http://www.gsmarena.com Techie.Buzz | November 1, 2021 at 2:07 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/p7uCtV-mvo Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Techie.Buzz. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://techie.buzz/2021/11/01/flashback-samsung-s8500-wave-the-first-phone-with-super-amoled-and-first-with-bada-os/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com