How often do you think of yourself as a universe? I started to do it once I’ve had a glimpse on human psychology. There are so many things inside us we’re not aware of, that when things start to move around, our whole world seems to turn upside down even though the outer universe seems to be the same. There are many things in there … Continue reading Inner Universe versus Outer Universe
Have you ever wonder if letting your mind free to whatever it wants it is helpful or not? Is there a line between helpful and hurtful? Studies show some interesting results. It seems that our daydreaming process interferes with our goals, but not how you’d expect. The daydreaming process has multiple aspects and influences different parts of our life, including the way we perform in … Continue reading Daydreaming: Helpful or Hurtful?
We’re always afraid of something. It’s part of our human nature and it’s a survival instinct. When we’re afraid of something we tend to avoid that thing or to run away from it, which will strengthen both the fear and our response to it. However, fear is just an emotion, just like joy. It’s not our boss to tell us what to do, but somehow … Continue reading Why is Fear so Important?
“How can you say that? It’s not funny to have psychological issues! You’re a horrible little human being!” Yes, I am! But psychology is more than therapy. It’s about humans and humans aren’t boring. I know because I’m part of human race (believe me, I AM). Okay, so what’s funny about psychology? Well, think about observing how children interact. Oh boy, that’s funny! They are … Continue reading The Funny side of Psychology
As you might know, I watch a lot of YouTube videos with different kind of successful people and I noticed that a lot of them talk about avoiding regret as a motivation to do things. Because of this, I remembered about a study that targeted the presence or the absence of regret. I want to share again with you the post I wrote about this … Continue reading The Regret of doing things vs The Regret of not doing things – Reblog
Uhm, no, I haven’t invented the word. It’s something that goes way back to King Ramses, but it didn’t had this weird name (source – Wikipedia). It seems that the name was “invented” by Samuel Crothers, or at least that’s what an The Atlantic Monthly article stated in 1916. Ok, the name is fancy, but the idea behind is pretty simple. The bibliotherapist … Continue reading Bibliotherapy – The therapy through reading
In the search of creating a post, I stumbled across this video that reminded me something I often forget: perfection is a self-imposed standard impossible to achieve. But we all want to achieve it in whatever we do. It’s healthy to strive for perfection, but it’s not healthy to expect to achieve it. The strive for perfection makes us want to become better … Continue reading Perfection equals Paralysis
Have you ever wondered why we sometimes run some weird negative scenarios through our mind that makes us feel bad or angry? How often does that happen to you? Today I caught myself running such a scenario with some people walking around me. Out of nowhere my mind made up a situation in which one of those people said something bad to me … Continue reading The scenarios from your mind
Each action we make involves some energy, but where is all that energy coming from? You surely noticed that we feel more energized when we do certain actions compared with others even though no additional energy came in. It seems that whenever we like something, we somehow find more energy to invest in that something compared to when we don’t like it. In … Continue reading Your Emotion is Your Energy
This time of the year allows us to get together with most of our family and friends. In my opinion, this is a great opportunity to observe what kind of an influence those people have over our lives. Friends and family are great sources of joy or frustration. It is important to know each is each in order for us to be confident about the … Continue reading Surround yourself with greatness
Are you ready to start a constant duel with your thoughts? I’ve mentioned before the reason why it needs to be constant. It will be harder in the beginning, but with practice, we’ll develop a habit of countering them constantly. There will be times when it might be too hard to find the required resources for the battle, but what matters is that we … Continue reading Shaping The Dragons
You all know that Mondays are not always a pleasant view, but they are part of our lives so if we want pleasant lives, we need pleasant Mondays as well. The fact that it is pleasant or not lays in our head, so the switch is up there, we just need the right combination of keys to make it. Having the mindset of … Continue reading Build the mindset of a champion – Video
What is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you? Looking forward to your answers! Max Continue reading Question of the Day – No. 172
The other day, I wrote a longer comment on a ‘Question of the Day’ post, all about confidence. So I thought I’d say a couple of more words about this… We are all familiar with classic situations where we know we MUST ‘be’ or ‘act’ confident (usually because we’re told so). Job interviews, dates, presentations blah blah blah Even though we rationally know that we’re … Continue reading The Confidence Problem.
A few days ago someone asked me the following question: “Why should I go to a therapist? Why should I go to a total stranger to reveal my deepest thoughts and experiences? I have friends I can share whatever I want with!” I found this to be a pretty good question. Why indeed would we go to a stranger to be the most vulnerable … Continue reading The need for therapy
Rephrasing is a therapeutic technique developed by Carl Rogers which represents the expression in a more concise way whatever the other person just said (rephrasing is different from reframing which is another therapeutic method, but this second one is used for changing the context or the perspective with a different one that fits at least as good). Since he was a psychologist, he developed … Continue reading Rephrasing – A path to a better communication?
I believe that changing our mindsets will change our lives. There isn’t a right recipe for this because we are all different and since we are different, we have different mindsets. We might have the same thoughts from time to time, but how we came up with those thoughts differs from a person to another because of the experiences we had in life which … Continue reading Become My Patron
