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Relieve Tension in Your Mind and Body
Tension may be okay in the short-term, but long-term it's a warning. Here are some ways for you to relieve tension to make sure you can become more productive, healthy, and satisfied with your life.
Self Esteem vs Self Confidence. What's the Difference?
When it comes to feeling better about ourselves, the last thing we need is confusion from a heap of words like self esteem, insecurity and so on. So what do they all mean?
How to Get Along with People
When making friends, understanding how emotional needs work is essential. It's unlikely we will meet all the needs of our friends and acquaintances, but meeting some of them effectively will make us feel valuable to them.
Cognitive Dissonance: Stop Lying to Yourself
Have you ever noticed that some people don't seem to be straight with themselves? And by some people we could include you and me.
How Do Your Critical Thinking Skills Measure Up?
Being able to think strategically, rationally, and objectively is a vital tool to be used alongside more direct, intuitive 'gut feelings'. But most of us are never taught how to think. We can all learn to think better by knowing what the more common critical thinking mistakes are, so as to avoid them as far as possible.
How to Stop Procrastinating
She had two weeks to complete her degree dissertation. The culmination of three years of study, the key to her chosen career - and was she getting down to it? No. As she told me bitterly of her endless procrastinating: "I'm a rabbit caught in headlamps!"
The Art of Psychological Self-Defence
You, I, and everyone will be manipulated. At least to some degree. And if we don't understand how this happens, we're more vulnerable to being manipulated by malevolent forces.
'How Hypnosis Helped Me' Competition Winners
Let's face it, hypnosis is often dismissed as a fringe idea. But we think it's far from fringe. In fact, it's perhaps the most central element to being human.
What's more, we know it works...
How Not to Get Radicalized
We assume that beliefs have more to do with logical, intelligent rationality than they actually do. But beliefs, especially strong ones, tend to be inculcated through emotion, not reason and logic.
Let Go of the Past
The present and future didn't seem to exist for her. I suspected she'd had lots of the kind of 'therapy' that feels it's best to dig continually into the past. What had all that historical focusing actually done for her?
