(Exploring your Mind) Why do we experience emotions? What kind of processes happen in our brains and our bodies for emotions to occur? In this article, we’ll discuss some of the most important theories of emotions.
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Six Keys to Expressing Your Emotions
(Exploring Your Mind) If emotions are so genuine, then why do we spend so much energy repressing, hiding, and keeping them to ourselves?
The Sympathetic Nervous System — Survival Psychology
(Exploring your Mind) Although you may not know anything about the sympathetic nervous system, it plays an important role in your everyday life. Read on to learn more about this crucial part of your autonomic nervous system!
Assertive Communication with Your Family
(Exploring Your Mind) Communication is the foundation for a good relationship with your family. But, how can you get your family to listen to you? It’s easier than you may think! Establishing assertive communication with your family is more than possible.
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.
Denial or Willful Ignorance
(Exploring Your Mind) Denial is very common in situations of addiction or conflict. Although this willful ignorance provides momentary peace of mind, over time it can become highly destructive.
Self-Determination Theory and Human Motivation
(Exploring your Mind) Self-determination is often motivated by interests, curiosity, care, or abiding values, even when such motivations aren’t rewarded or supported at times. However, they can sustain the flame of passion, creativity, and effort.
What are Blue Lies and Why do We Believe Them?
(Exploring your Mind) Results showed that children became more inclined to endorse lying in the name of the collective good and to tell lies for their group themselves if they were older.
Three Psychological Difficulties that Affect Couples
(Exploring your Mind) When you have underlying issues to address, you’ll most likely have issues with other people as well. In particular, it’s clear that there are some psychological difficulties that affect couples, subjective issues that prevent a relationship’s good development.
Publication Bias: Understanding How and Why Science Can Be Wrong
(Exploring your Mind) Where does publication bias come from? It seems that, in medical literature, bias towards publishing striking results originates from journal editors.
Dharma, a Path Toward Truth and a Meaningful Life
(Exploring your Mind) Those who act rightfully, those who obey, understand, and practice Dharma, get the benefits of the cosmic ordering. It brings them happiness, mystical ecstasy, which gives them a sense of well-being and fulfillment.
Symmetry between Parents and Children
(Exploring your Mind) When there is symmetry between parents and their children, children believe that they’re their parents’ peers. The parents have no authority over their children, and the children have a hard time developing their own identity. Instead, they copy what they see in their parents, including trauma and anxiety.
Why Do We Like To Experience Fear?
(Exploring your Mind) Interestingly enough, empathic people usually like to experience fear. This may be because they have a greater ability to process emotions than other people; and therefore, seek to live more experiences of this type.
Learn to Value Your Effort, Even if Others Don’t
(Exploring your Mind) Did you know that working at something and making an effort can trigger changes in your brain and actually make you happier? Armed with this knowledge, it’s easier to value your own effort without worrying about what other people think. Keep reading to find out why effort is so important for your well-being.
Magical Thinking: Concept and Traits
(Exploring your Mind) Magical thinking is a fascinating human phenomenon. Read on ti discover what magical thinking is and why it isn’t always bad to believe something that isn’t true