(Science Daily) How did the almost 6000 languages of the world come into being?
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‘I Could Never Do That’ — and Other Myths We Tell Ourselves
(Beth Kurland, Ph.D.) There are five words that will stop you right in your tracks every time you say them. These words are familiar to many of us — they are words that have played over and over in my own head, and words I have heard from so many others over the years: “I could never do that.” When we say those words — especially when it is in the context of something that we would like to do — it can act as a dead end, causing us to reverse direction or stay stuck right where we are. It is hard to move forward when we take those words as fact.
Vulnerability is a Sign of Psychological Bravery
(Exploring Your Mind) Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is an act of bravery. In the end, a strong person isn’t one who manages to keep a fake image of happiness for a long time. You’re strong when you let your feelings out into the world, and when you accept your mistakes and pain.
The Temporal Lobe: The Center of Memory and Emotions
(Exploring Your Mind) An injury or change to the temporal lobe can lead to different types of deafness or even depression. Understanding the functions of this part of the brain can help us understand ourselves even better.
Healthy Friendships: Bonds that Help You Grow
(Justin Deschamps) Friends, family, and those closest to us are very important. Regardless of who you are or where you come from, you need other people in your life. Psychologically, we’re hardwired to know ourselves through who we become near others, wherein the brain regulates our emotions and sense of self-worth based on the health of our social attachments. This is physically woven within the fabric of our body, meaning there are neurological systems designed to reward us for healthy social attachments.
Somatic Therapy: Releasing Trapped Emotions
(Exploring Your Mind) Although somatic therapy has its critics recent advances in neuroscience back up a lot of its principles. Being aware of your somatic experiences can help you heal trauma and trapped emotions.
Childhood Traumas Can Stay with You for Life – by Messing with Your Hormone Levels, Says Study
(Melissa Smith) Your stress levels today may be influenced by your stressful childhood experiences. A study published in the journal Psychological Science found that people who had a rough childhood tend to have higher stress levels in adulthood. The study’s researchers found that these people have a cortisol pattern that could lead to adverse health outcomes.
Drum Circles Put Pharmaceutical Antidepressants TO SHAME
(Sayer Ji) A new study published in PLoS scientifically validates what so many drum circle participants have already experienced first hand: group drumming produces significant changes in well-being, including improvements in depression, anxiety and social resilience.
A New Way to Know Liars’ Intent
(Neuroscience News) Dartmouth engineering researchers have developed a new approach for detecting a speaker’s intent to mislead. The approach’s framework, which could be developed to extract opinion from “fake news,” among other uses, was recently published as part of a paper in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
The Chemistry of Anxiety
(Exploring Your Mind) Anxiety is an important mechanism that has ensured the survival of the human species. In the modern world, however, that same chemical response often harms instead of helping humans.
The Rotten Apple Theory — Practical Community Advice
(Exploring Your Mind) We give the name of rotten apples to co-workers who employ negativity, criticism, or constant abuse. With their behavior, they contaminate the entire workplace, causing stress, suffering, and low productivity.
Five Keys to Giving Emotional Support
(Exploring Your Mind) Providing the right kind of emotional support for someone in need can be tricky.
Why You Can’t Stop Clicking — How Big Tech Hijacked Your Brain and Need for Community Through Social Media
(Justin Deschamps) As we’ve discussed on Stillness in the Storm, understanding our nature and the physical reality we inhabit is essential. Of which, the biological rewards were preprogrammed with are inescapable aspects of human life. Specifically, your body and brain is designed to reward you when you maintain social connections. Big tech, via the powers that be, has created a technological system that hijacks this ancient social reward system in your brain. It’s called social media. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
The Symbolism of Dreams According to Jung
(Exploring Your Mind) The symbolism of dreams depends on how they integrate our conscious and unconscious lives.
Captain America: Have Values Become Old-Fashioned?
(Exploring Your Mind) Some people think that the moral code Captain America lives by is old-fashioned. But is it?