Nervous [nur-vuhs]: adjective
- highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- of or relating to the nerves: nervous tension.
- affecting the nerves: nervous diseases.
Nervousness is often a hard emotion to spot; it can easily hide, masked as any number of emotions. It’s power can be overwhelming, forcing us into tense-filled states. It often includes changes in the heartbeat, and a parasympathetic response which can leave us slightly altered. We often get nervous due to an emotional response, but physically bursts of adrenaline are being released giving us a jittery feeling resulting in shaking hands, inability to maintain communication patterns and fear of general interactions.
Yeah, all of that sounds awful, but nervousness pushes us to our boundaries and forces us into new and evidently scary territory. It’s here that despite success or failure, growth is inevitable. Feeling nervous is often an uncomfortable state of existence, and it can be harnessed to help us strive to overcome adversity and failure.
11-8-18 Don’t Read Dostoyevsky by Alaska in Winter
11-8-18 There’s something about a gothic sounding piano that always strikes a nerve. For me it slowly starts to send those chills, tingling through the spine, until they somehow release through the toes. It’s similar to the anxious feeling one gets when sitting in...
11-7-18 We Used to Wait
11-7-18 The past two days, hell the past week, have had its moments. Despite being disconnected from major media, trying to avoid the bombardment of all the political messaging is a fruitless endeavor. With the proverbial dust beginning to settle we can slowly start...
11-6-18 Army of Me by Bjork
11-6-18 VOTE!!! For the better part of the last ten years when an election would roll around I would usually find myself in a public radio station. I had worked in public radio for almost a decade, doing a myriad of tasks and jobs, but ultimately what I would tell...
11-5-18: Inertia Creeps by Massive Attack
Inertia Creeps by Massive Attack Remember, remember, the 5th of November.... The anticipation is palpable. The outcome is still uncertain. There isn’t anyway to gauge what will happen. We like to think that hope will pull us through, it will stand as a beacon...
11-4-18 People ii: The Reckoning
People II: The Reckoning by AJJ (Andrew Jackson Jihad) AJJ, or Andrew Jackson Jihad, (depends on which publicist you ask first,) have been one of the strongest voices for the folk-punk FOLK/PUNK genre for nearly 15 years. Their music and uncompromising lyrics have...
11-3-18 Leyendecker by Battles
Leyendecker by Battles: A little over 11 years ago I began listening to a band called Battles. There sound was fierce, and unlike anything else I had yet discovered. Their first major record, Mirrored, was an exploration of “indie-percussion-rock,” an actual subgenre...
11-2-18 Beam Me Up by YACHT
11-2-18 Beam Me Up by YACHT As a child the splendor of the unknown would fluctuate between enthralling and debilitating. There's a spot, somewhere there in the middle, where nervousness rests. While listening to Claire Evans sing to the great unknown, calling to be...
11-1-18 Magik by Klaxons
11-1-18 The first, the first of anything tends to be the tensest. Hopefully, this won’t be too hard to get through. Klaxons were an English band out of London. In 2007 they released Myths of the Near Future. This album contained numerous tracks which in their own rite...
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