Journey to Truth Podcast: Ep. 6 Justin Deschamps
Consciousness
‘Don’t Call Me Before You Text’: The New Rules of Communicating in the Digital Era
(Dalvin Brown) Connecting with people has become so much easier with advancing technology. Tasks that once required an operator, postage stamp or carrier pigeon are now as simple as tapping a name or even a face on your screen, and, voila, you’re connected.
Science Suggests Taking More Breaks Makes You More Productive | Illich’s Law and Negative Productivity
(Exploring Your Mind) Learn all about Illich’s law and negative productivity in this article.
Intrinsic Motivation: The Search for Meaning
(Exploring your Mind) The search for the meaning of life sets our goals and motivations in motion. When a person knows what they’re passionate about, paths will open for them.
11 Life Affirming Lessons: Wake Up, Surrender & Heal
We all know, to heal is not a one-stop shop or a quick fix. Indeed, it is far from it. If you have been on the spiritual journey for very long, you may have already begun to realize that healing is a part of our lifelong journey.
PBS Documentary on How “The Eugenics Crusade” Started in the U.S. – Not Nazi Germany
(B.N. Frank) I’m not saying that the well-funded publicly promoted and celebrated American Eugenics Movement wasn’t covered in my high school American History class. But I feel like I’d remember learning about it. I still shudder when I think of about the book, The Scarlet Letter. It was only the last few years that remember seeing news coverage about states that once had laws allowing forced sterilizations. These were apparently part of the American Eugenics movement. Some people who were forcibly sterilized during that time period are being financially compensated.
Psychophysiology: What Is it?
(Explore your Mind) Psychophysiology studies human behavior and the processes involved in it. To do that, this branch of psychology applies some techniques to capture the body’s physiological responses. Psychophysiology is the branch of psychology that studies the physiological foundation of the brain’s psychological processes. It analyzes behavior and the processes behind it.
Creating a Family Culture Around Emotional Self-Regulation
(Erina White, PhD, MPH, MSW) Most of us know a family that speaks a foreign language at home. Children in these families can switch seamlessly between the language they speak with their parents and the one they speak with their peers, teachers, and other adults. This facility with multiple languages benefits children in numerous ways, including in being able to navigate a multicultural world.
Identity Fusion: Relationship Between the Personal Self and the Social Self
(Exploring your Mind) Identity fusion is a type of identity that connects other types of identities. In order to understand this better, consider that we all have, at the very least, two identities. One is the personal identity or the personal self and the other is our social identities or social selves. Your personal self is directly related to your personality. That is to say, you can be extroverted, polite, neurotic, etc.
The Neuroscience Behind Creating Your Reality — How Beliefs Affect You and How to Change Them
(Brooklyn Storme, PhD) Have you ever wondered why two people can share the exact same situation, yet experience it differently? Neural pathways are often described as a type of super-highway of nerve cells, the function of which is to transmit messages. Much like a walking track in the bush, the more you walk over it, the more trodden and clear it becomes. The same thing happens when we engage in behaviors such as thinking certain thoughts with a high degree of regularity.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
(Explore Your Mind) Have you ever noticed how ignorant people often speak with great confidence? And truly smart people constantly question themselves? In the late 90s, two researchers set out to explain this phenomenon and came up with the Dunning-Kruger effect.
What Your Thinking Says About You — 5 Thinking Styles
(J.D. Meier) You improve your communication with others when you can match their thinking style.
The Mental Toll of Being Overweight: Having Positive Outlook and a Healthy BMI Often Go Hand-in-hand
(Jhoanna Robinson) A recent study has shown that people who manage to keep their weight down have the most probability of keeping their spirits up.
Evil Medicine: Med School Uses Live Pigs for Medical Training, Completely Disregarding Ethics or Suffering (This Is How They Treat Humans, Too)
(Vicki Batts) Sometimes, doing things the “old-fashioned way” is the best approach — but when it comes to animal testing, the days of yore are best left behind us. In today’s world, there are plenty of alternatives to the cruel and unethical practice of testing on live animals. Now, Brown University is under fire for using live pigs in the course of medical training, even though experts say human body simulators are actually a better choice.
The Importance of Conscious Communication
(Justin Deschamps) There are several pillars of living that once embraced make everything else better in our lives. Often these pillars force us to face our fears and grow. Life improves, not because it’s without challenge, but because we face challenges and in doing so grow stronger and wiser. Communication is one of these pillars. Without effective communication, most of the things you enjoy in life fall apart. There is a science to communication, ancient wisdom that we still use in the modern world in certain places. If we took this wisdom and used it everywhere we could, almost every problem you can imagine can be dealt with as a collective effort.