(John M. Grohol, Psy.D.) Our personalities are complicated systems of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that describe how we interact with others and the world around us. Throughout the past century, psychologists and personality researchers have worked to try and simplify personality’s complexity by suggesting most people can fit into a certain category that generally captures their preferences.
Consciousness
The Power of Suggestion: Psychological Placebos Found to Be as Effective as Medical Placebos
(Edsel Cook) Swiss researchers suggest that placebos were all in the mind. They recently conducted a trio of experiments that indicated a placebo didn’t need to come in physical form, as long as a healthcare professional could convince a patient about the supposed effectiveness of the psychological placebo.
The Third Dimension of Fire – Blood Sacrifice and Beyond
(Elva Thompson) What a bizarre and seductive reality we live in. A chaotic world of speed where survival is on overdrive. A surreal place where it’s hard to tell truths from lies anymore. But…confusing and scary as it maybe, everything is cosmically in order. The Old Age ended on Dec 21st 2012 and there is a reset time while the new programme is installed for the next twenty six thousand years.
How Unconscious Guilt Manifests Itself
(Exploring your Mind) Many times unconscious guilt manifests itself through depression and anxiety. In depression, there’s a feeling of dissatisfaction with oneself and the world. In anxiety, through the expectation of harm or punishment.
The Ringing Cedars — Secret Wisdom For the Modern Age | Gardening, Child-rearing, Healing, Nature, Sexuality, Religion and More.
The Ringing Cedars — Secret Wisdom For the Modern Age | Gardening, Child-rearing, Healing, Nature, Sexuality, Religion and More.
Music Helps to Build the Brains of Very Premature Babies
(Neuroscience) In Switzerland, as in most industrialized countries, nearly 1% of children are born “very prematurely”, i.e. before the 32nd week of pregnancy, which represents about 800 children yearly.
‘Mind-Reading’ Neurons Capable of Having Expectations about the Behavior of the Others
(Neuroscience) Psychologists and philosophers had long suggested that simulation is the mechanism whereby humans understand the minds of others. However, the neural basis of this complex process had not been identified.
8 Common Habits of Highly Compassionate People
(Debi Allison) What defines compassion? If you have ever met a truly compassionate person, they likely stuck out to you like a sore thumb, and even more likely, this person had a way of being that truly stuck out to you, from their habits to their mannerisms.
Elizabeth Wilcock’s Inspiring Story & Miraculous Angel Experiences [Part 2]
Elizabeth Wilcock’s Inspiring Story & Miraculous Angel Experiences [Part 2]
Mass Meditation Leads to More Societal Peace, New Study Shows
(Natural Blaze) The group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® programs in Cambodia between 1993 and 2008 was associated with a 96.2% decline in sociopolitical violence in that war-torn country compared to violence in the preceding three years, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in Studies in Asian Social Science.
The Science of How Focus Music Makes You Work Better
The Science of How Focus Music Makes You Work Better
Ukrainian Man Claims to “Eat” Only Sunshine and Lives by the Law of Flowers
(Guerman Grachev) He feeds only on prana and solar energy. After arriving in a village where he lives, I saw a barefooted man standing on the porch. He was wearing a bright orange dress with the sun embroidered on the chest.
For the Love of Animals: New Bill Would See Convicted Animal Abusers Displayed in Online Registry
(Elias Marat) A bipartisan bill introduced in North Carolina would create an online registry of residents convicted of abusing animals, with their photos and names on display for at least two years.
Scientists ‘Clear’ Alzheimer’s Plaque From Mice Using Only Light And Sound
(Mike McRae) Clumps of harmful proteins that interfere with brain functions have been partially cleared in mice using nothing but light and sound.
The Riddle of Twin Telepathy
(Galactic Connection) Twins, both fraternal and identical, have fascinated the world for millennia. They are often very close, and share not only genes but home environments, friends, clothes and, of course, secrets. However many identical twins — perhaps as many as one in five — also claim to share something more mysterious: a special psychic connection.