(Exploring your Mind) It may be hard to face whatever’s happening in your life, either because you’re afraid, don’t know how to act, or because you’re trying to avoid suffering again. In cases like this, perhaps you’re “wearing an emotional armor” in order to protect yourself.
Psychology
The 10 Warning Signs of Having a Victim Mentality
(Nancy Carbone) When you feel like a victim, you’ll end up stuck.
The Healing Power of Narrative: Metaphor Therapy and the Language of Intuition
(Exploring your Mind) Metaphor therapy is a resource used in different therapeutic approaches. It consists of using metaphors to achieve understanding and to overcome problematic situations.
Dopamine For the Winners: How Our Mind’s Reward System Drives Political Ambition and Affects Civilization
(Peter Van Els) The effects of the brain’s neurochemistry on geopolitics and human interaction should be more subject to study and debate. It almost seems like a truism to state that our brains, and their fallibility, greatly affect human progress and societal advancement. But what is most striking in today’s culture, is the way in which our mind’s reward system is employed by society to encourage economic and political ambition, and to blunt the creative and critical mind.
The Influence of Other People’s Expectations
(Explore Your Mind) Trying to live up to other people’s expectations can be difficult. But why do we make expectations? What purpose do they serve? In this article, learn about the role that expectations play in our lives and how to manage them in a healthy way.
What Everyone Should Know About Healthy Relationships
(Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.) Healthy relationships shouldn’t take much work. And if they do, it’s time to go our separate ways. We must be compatible. If we need therapy, our relationship is already doomed. My partner is supposed to know what I want, and what I need. Healthy couples never argue, because fighting ruins relationships.
Four Keys to Dealing with Unexpected Situations
(Exploring your Mind) Unexpected situations can have unpleasant consequences that affect us deeply. This is why most people want to have control over what happens to them because humans feel more comfortable when they’re in charge. However, unexpected events are part of life, which is why we must be prepared to face the feeling of insecurity in the face of the unknown.
Intimacy Crisis: The Percentage of American Adults Not Having Sex Has Reached a Record High
(Justin Deschamps) An intimacy crisis is at our doorstep. Life, in a sense, is all about finding better ways to meet our fundamental needs. These needs are personal, social, and universal, a blend of animal instincts and biological urges energizing an evolving psyche, even an emerging spiritual nature—the soul. Since time immemorial, humanity has had to contend with these needs, yet we continue to struggle with them in our advancing world—especially the grandest of needs, the desire for intimacy, fellowship, and union with others.
Five Types of Meditation and their Benefits
(Explore Your Mind) People can meditate in different ways, as there are many different types of meditation.
Three Stoic Strategies for Becoming Happier
(Explore Your Mind) Stoic philosophy focused on finding happiness. Discover three Stoic strategies that can help you become happier here!
The Taoist View of the Universe as Explained by Alan Watts
(Alan Watts) At the very roots of Chinese thinking and feeling there lies the principle of polarity, which is not to be confused with the ideas of opposition or conflict. In the metaphors of other cultures, light is at war with darkness, life with death, good with evil, and the positive with the negative, and thus an idealism to cultivate the former and be rid of the latter flourishes throughout much of the world.
Enthusiastic People: Traits and Values
(Explore Your Mind) Would you like to be more enthusiastic about life? Do you admire people who have that certain zest for life? Keep reading to learn more about them and how you can become more enthusiastic!
Asking The Hard Questions About Transgenderism: What You Don’t Know About Gender-Transitioning Will Blow Your Mind
(Justin Deschamps) Is it possible to be born a man, when you’re actually the soul of a women? This is the basis of transgender thinking, which has become widely accepted in the world today. The following article reviews some cases of transgenderism that raise serious questions as to whether it is healthy or beneficial to subscribe to the notion that medical intervention is the best way to treat gender dysphoria.
Disturbing Cases Show the US Govt is Still Conducting Secret Experiments and WE are the Lab Rats
(The Free Thought Project) The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster. This is not a new development, nor is it a revelation. This is a government that has in recent decades unleashed untold horrors upon the world—including its own citizenry—in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances, all packaged in the guise of the greater good.
What are the Functions of the Hypothalamus?
(Explore Your Mind) The hypothalamus is an area of the brain that has many functions despite its small size. It plays an important role in the production of hormones. In addition, it helps stimulate many important processes.