Category: Psychology
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Childhood Trauma Healing: How to Heal Your Inner Child
In the spiritual realm, there is often this notion that healing your child is of utmost importance. But while you do need to pay attention to parenting your inner child, you’re now a grown-up; even though you do need to pay attention to your inner child’s needs, you have needs as an adult, too. It is…
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Simple Pranayama Breathing Exercise to Manage Your Anger
Yoga breathing exercises enable steady progress in addressing your angry energy and directing it towards growth.
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How to Stop Criticizing Others and Yourself
Sooner or later, you will have to expose yourself to criticism. You will have your paper graded, your clothes praised or ridiculed, your speech applauded or booed, your book top-listed or chopped to pieces by a critic’s verbal sword. That’s life. You cannot live in isolation.
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What “Scrubs” (TV Series) Taught Me about Happy Families
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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How to Prioritize Your Life with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
I once heard that the only people who love cycling are those who cannot afford to buy a car. If you want to know how to prioritize in life in general, and how to prioritize tasks and projects, you can find your answer about the value of your choices in the Maslow’s pyramid of needs.
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Psychology of Comedy: The Underestimated Power of the Dark Side of Laughter
This is the most important thing you need to keep in mind about the psychology of comedy if you want to make people laugh, and not cry. Freedom of speech? It is a chimerical web that can only be absolute on a one-man’s island. In social networks, its intricate boundaries are revealed when we remember…
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How to Use Self-Doubt to Your Advantage
Self-doubt is the other side of the confidence coin. In a world where everything is about self-confidence as a market commodity, self-doubt becomes an undesirable asset. If you doubt yourself too much, you won’t take action, stand up for what you believe for, or fight for your rights. You will be a loser.
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How to Make Good Decisions that Snowball into Success
The average human makes 35,000 decisions a day. You get 35,000 chances a day to improve your life, and as many to blow it to pieces.
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5 Ways to Help Your Child Fight Bullies at School
The best way to fight bullies in school is to do something about it. You must not stand still and be quiet. You must support your child in the fight.
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How to Comfort Someone Who is Sad and Mourning
Life throws us curve balls and one of them is our inability to face its end. Unless you’ve lived in a family where processing hard stuff is easy (and I don’t know many of those), you are, like most of us, terribly equipped to deal with difficult emotions.
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Feel Tired All the Time? Give Yourself the Permission to Rest
Do you consider rest a luxury? I often do, but that is when energy and motivation about a project take over me, I run mostly on adrenaline and oxytocin, and I forget that, sooner or later, tiredness will take its toll.
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Why Meditation is the Opposite of Resistance
What does it mean to meditate? There are numerous definitions of meditation. However, any person defining this effervescent notion struggles with the same problem. They are not completely happy about the wordage used to describe something that can only be experienced. Or as most yoga teachers tend to say: “Everything can be meditation.” It is…
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Yes, Dogs Can Help People with Dementia Heal
The sensory and perceptive world of dogs is entirely different than that of humans. Dogs live in the moment, are incredibly willing to give and seek attention, and don’t carry the burden of difficult neurotic emotions. If you ever doubted that dogs are admirable healers, here is the most recent proof. Can a Dog Help…
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“Dodging Satan”: How Not To Raise a Catholic (Book Review)
Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood by Kathleen Zamboni McCormick My rating: 5 of 5 stars If we could open up a contest about the world’s most Catholic family, Bridget’s Italian-Irish concoction would definitely top up the rating. The clever girl is raised by the tight glove of religion from both…
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Dog EQ: Your Dog Can Read Your Face, Much Better Than You Think
Dogs use their dog EQ to read and understand your facial expressions and adjust their behavior. By looking at how dogs behave around humans and other dogs, we should admit our emotional intelligence defeat, at least to the emotional gradient set by dogs.
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“The Artist’s Way” By Julia Cameron: Why Every Writer Should Read This Book (Review)
Thanks to Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” I became capable of seating with hours at the desk and enjoying the process. I also learned how important wellbeing is and that wellbeing and safety should be a part of work, flow, and happiness.
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“The Inconceivable Truth: A Gutsy Memoir about Defining and Surviving Childless Womanhood in the 21st Century” by Nicki Fenthum (Book Review)
There was a moment in time when I didn’t quite understand why people decide to share their stories in so many personal details. I thought – why would someone want to expose to the bare bones to random strangers? Then it dawned on me – they are not doing it for themselves or, rather, they…
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“Women Who Run with the Wolves” by C.P. Estés: Reclaiming Our Instinctual Nature [BOOK REVIEW]
Clarissa Pinkola Estés brings us back to the story of the wild woman, a story about songs, bones, and wolves. A remarkable storyteller, Jungian analyst, and healer who integrated the wisdom roots of her Mexican and Hungarian ancestry and heritage into her healing work, the author clears ages of cobwebs and removes the debris of…
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The Red Book by C.G. Jung: A Personal Journey into the Collective Unconscious (BOOK REVIEW)
The first time I saw a copy of the Red Book by Carl Gustav Jung, it was in a Zurich bookstore six years ago. I remembered I was mesmerized by this edition, which was a hardcover version of the original, with incredible images and some unusual format. But it was around $400 at the time,…
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Mother-daughter Relationships: How to Perform the Healing Practice of the Women’s Heritage
Pause for a moment to think about your mother daughter relationship. Take a look back into your life and the life of your mother. Go as far back as into the histories of all women related to you, all the way you can go to picture each woman’s foremother. As you travel back into your…
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Meaning of Beauty: How to Talk About Beauty to Young Girls
The meaning of beauty is about art and intellect, power and strength, humbleness and experience.
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Heart Intelligence: Can Your Heart Predict the Future?
There are many secrets to the human heart. As we advance in sophisticated technological research methods and innovative software, we can start unveiling at least some of them. The heart has an intelligence of its own. Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence Heart – the vital organ of emotions- has been a research topic in prominent studies, but…
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Emotional Contagion: Social Media Insanity
When people are emotionally afflicted they feel the same emotions as someone who is nearby. Emotional contagion can take place without the participants’ awareness of how this happened. On massive social networks, there is even something called global emotional synchrony.
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3 Steps to Creating a Pleasant Workplace at Home Before Holidays
Will you be working from home this holiday season? It is hard to tell, but it is very much likely. And you might just need angelic help.
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