(Justin Deschamps) Modern relationships have the same challenges as traditional ones: how do you keep things interesting and alive? The best answer is to gain an understanding of why we experience joy and bliss at all. In the following article, mainstream psychology offers insight into why we experience boredom and what can be done about it. I’ll enhance this with a deeper spiritual understanding of relationships.
Consciousness
The Science Behind Giving Up — Why You Should Invest Yourself in Your Daily Tasks
(Justin Deschamps) Motivation is a subject of great study in psychology. Understanding how we motivate ourselves helps us live better lives. The following article discusses a study wherein scientists sought to understand how a specific neurotransmitter (pnVTA) becomes active when a subject stops seeking a reward.
Traumas Change Perception in the Long-Term
(Science Daily) Adults who have experienced maltreatment as children have a changed perception of social stimuli. Traumatized people found touch stimuli less comforting than people who had not experienced trauma. They also maintained a greater social distance from strangers. In addition, the researchers discovered changes in the activation of certain brain areas.
Why Marianne Williamson Suggested ‘Prayer’ Could Shift Hurricane Dorian
(Joe Martino) Marianne Williamson tweeted about how prayer and the power of the mind could potentially shift hurricane Dorian away from land and the media and influencers went a little haywire.
Get to Know the Psychology of Persuasion
(Justin Deschamps) Persuasion often gets a bad wrap. We’re exposed to a constant onslaught of media attempting influence our buying choices, political views, and relationship values. Understanding these things helps us guard against coercive influences. What’s more, we can also learn how to interact with others, using persuasion techniques that are respectful.
Alone Time: A Fundamental Human Need
(Exploring Your Mind) Spending time alone is fundamental to find some balance, especially in those times when you feel overloaded. Evidence suggests that it can cause important changes in your brain, thoughts, and emotions.
How You Train Your Mind Will Either Make or Break You
(Justin Deschamps) In our world, many people suffer. The culture of victimhood asserts your suffering is not your fault; it’s because of the patriarchy, the economic system, biological limitations, karma (original sin), and so on. To be sure, there are many things that make life unnecessarily hard and cruel. But within your mind exists the key to your liberation, as was claimed by mystics and enlightened men and women of the past.
Spiritual Attachments as a Cure for Human Suffering: Why Attachment Is a Key Factor in Your Mental Health
(Justin Deschamps) Attachments can sound like things we refuse to let go of. But in the context of the following article, attachments are a psychological term for things we are designed to bond to. When we lose these essential attachments, we feel triggered because our core needs aren’t being met. Over a long enough time, if we don’t fix the situation, we can develop negative core beliefs that can cause us to make our lives even more miserable. Understanding that we have these needs, and learning how to satisfy them, is an essential aspect of human life we all should take time to understand.
How Do Color and Personality Relate to Each Other?
(Exploring Your Mind) Color and personality are quite strongly related. Our preferences for certain colors usually correlate with specific personality patterns.
Ten Energy-Sapping Bad Attitudes You Should Change
(Exploring Your Mind) It’s easy to cling to certain attitudes that are ultimately harmful to your well-being.
Hidden Anger: The Emotion that Changes Our Personality
(Exploring Your Mind) Hidden anger often arises from disappointments, unprocessed traumas, and injustices.
The Six Blind Sages and the Elephant: Learning to Value Other People’s Opinions
(Exploring Your Mind) Do you value other people’s opinions? Do you take into account different perspectives?
The Power of Love (Acceptance) and the Cost of Fear (Resistance) — Accepting Your Feelings and Bodily Sensations Now
(Justin Deschamps) Is it possible to resist reality? Can we really properly navigate life, for fulfillment, joy, and happiness, if we reject aspects of it? The following article discusses why accepting reality, especially things your body tells you, helps you live a better life.
3 Secret Tactics for Dealing with Difficult People
(Tracy Shawn, MA) Difficult people can inhabit (and intrude into) many areas of our lives: work, home, neighborhood, social and professional affiliations, even at the sanctuary of the gym! Whether someone acts defensive, rude, passive-aggressive, critical, or lies and then turns things around, difficult people have something in common: they are frustrating to deal with.
Cultural Value Systems: Male Values Informed by Female Choice — Social Exclusion Fuels Extremism
(Justin Deschamps) The following neuroscience study analyzed the effect of social exclusion on young men, specifically looking for what effect “sacred values and isolation” had. In my view, the finding suggests that unlike what many anti-male proponents suggest, men are biologically programmed to protect aspects of society deemed sacred. Comprehending why men are driven to defend their values with violence reveals insights that we can use to better shape society for all people.