(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.
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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.
Need a Mental Break? Avoid Your Cellphone
(Neuroscience) Using a cellphone to take a break during mentally challenging tasks does not allow the brain to recharge effectively and may result in poorer performance, Rutgers researchers found.
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.
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.
Mobile Devices Rewire Your Brain, Turning You into a Reward Addict Who Craves More Food
(Lance D Johnson) There’s a new risk factor for obesity and it doesn’t involve dieting, genetics, food consumption, hormone disrupters, or inactivity. The newest risk factor for obesity is of psychological origin and it all starts with the way we use electronics and social media.
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?
Testosterone Has a Complicated Relationship with Moral Reasoning, Study Finds
(Science Daily) Although some studies have linked high levels of testosterone to immoral behavior, a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour finds testosterone supplements actually made people more sensitive to moral norms, suggesting that testosterone’s influence on behavior is more complicated than previously thought.
Impulsive Behavior Linked to Sleep and Screen Time
(Neuroscience) A paper published today in Pediatrics suggests that children and youth who do not sleep enough and use screens more than recommended are more likely to act impulsively and make poorer decisions. The findings come from the globally recognized Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) at the CHEO Research Institute in Ottawa.