(Exploring Your Mind) The safest and most comfortable path isn’t always the best solution. It may decrease your risks, but it also decreases your opportunities to learn.
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Science Discovers Two Types of Intuition, How Can You Learn to Master Each for a Fulfilled Life?
(Justin Deschamps) Intuition, gut-feelings, or what some call “psychic downloads” are well acknowledged by science. Humans naturally experience what seems like automatic and magical insights, things that often guide our decisions or our conclusions about the world. But unlike what many think, intuition isn’t some unexplained magical power, it has roots in acknowledged science.
Body, Mind, and Meditation: What’s Their Relationship?
(Exploring your Mind) There’s a lot of literature on meditation and its benefits. Although meditation was once a novelty brought from the East, it’s now a common habit for many Westerners. What some may not know is that there’s a deep relationship between the body, mind, and meditation.
How to Spot Immaturity in Yourself and Others, For Self Growth and Social Tolerance
(Justin Deschamps) Maturity is a hallmark of a well developed and balanced consciousness. Enlightenment, in this sense, might be thought of as a high level of maturity, not just in one area but all. Psychologically, we can be mature in some places but immature in others. Consider unethical conduct in the business sector, which shows that one can be highly proficient at managing a business but lack ethical maturity when it comes to universal values.
Your Sense of Self and Depression – What’s the Connection?
(Exploring your Mind) Rumination, negative dialogue, and feeling empty and unworthy can chip away at your self-esteem and create the perfect breeding ground for depression.
Assertive Children Are Happy Children
(Exploring your Mind) Happiness is not about having a lot of toys or getting everything we ask for. Happiness is satisfaction, self-esteem, and a healthy love for ourselves. This is why assertive children are more confident, cheerful and easily relate with everyone and everything around them.
Good Self-Esteem Comes from a Job Well Done
(Exploring your Mind) One of the pillars that has a tremendous influence on our behavior is self-esteem. How we feel, based on the image we have of ourselves, determines the goals we choose, the relationships we maintain, and the intensity of our emotions. But how can we achieve good self-esteem?
The Excuses that Prolong Emotional Dependence
(Exploring Your Mind) The excuses that we make when we’re suffering from emotional dependence make us postpone an almost inevitable and necessary conclusion: having to face our own personal loneliness.
The Neurobiology of Addiction
(Exploring Your Mind) People affected by addiction go from impulsivity to compulsivity. These two stages can also coexist, but they usually happen in that order.
Do You Suffer From Anxiety-Induced Chest Pain?
(Exploring Your Mind) Anxiety almost always manifests itself with physical symptoms. Different people experience different symptoms, but one of the most distressing ones is chest pain. Keep reading to learn more about this phenomenon and how to tell the difference between anxiety-induced chest pain and something more serious.
Three Great Short Legends for Children
(Exploring Your Mind) Legends can be wonderful tools to teach our children values that should be at the center of their lives. Discover three great ones here!
The Seven Virtues of Victor or the Bushido Code
(Exploring your Mind) The Bushido code was developed by the ancient Japanese to give a sense of humanity and honor to the battles of the samurai. Read on to discover it!
Nine Alan Watts Quotes Worth Reflecting On
(Exploring Your Mind) Alan Watts was a great philosopher and writer.
Understanding Paranoid Delusions: The Psychology of Reality Distortion
(Stillness in the Storm Editor) Psychology is one of the key pillars of life because everything we do passes through our mind and consciousness. Properly understanding reality is instrumental to a fulfilling healthy life—a life without delusion. But in our modern age, psychological manipulation is ever present, compounded by a lack of self-knowledge and healthy […]
The ABCs of Psychological Trauma
(Explore Your Mind) Although psychological trauma doesn’t affect everyone in the same way, many people are forever impacted by it.