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The Power Of Positive Thinking. Is It Good For You?

In 1952, Norman Vincent Peale wrote a book by that name that went on to become a landmark for many years to come. It’s been the cause of controversy ever since. It was a major debate during the 1950s particularly during the elections in the US. Elsewhere, it’s been used as the basis of this...

Cognitive Distortions, What Are They and How Do We Stop Them?

The brain. It represents a paradox; we use it to discover and understand everything around us, and yet we have barely scratched the surface in understanding and discovering it in of itself. One of the great mysteries is simply how to map every action and motion in the brain, to understand its normal psychophysiology. Psychophysiology...

The Cost of Depression

It might seem like the fight with depression is a relatively modern one, but you’d be mistaken. Accounts of depression have been recorded as early as Mesopotamian times. Every ancient civilization has records of what seems to have been depressed. We know now it as MDD (Major Depressive Disorder), but back then, they believed that...

Procrastinators, Assemble

Fellow procrastinators, if we had a penny for every project or task we never finished, we’d never collect them all cause we’d put it off for another time. This is probably the worst enemy we learned about since we’ve grown up. We were warned about laziness and apathy, but this is a different animal altogether....

Long lasting transformation? How do I go about that?

"Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one." ~ Eknath Easwaran This topic is crucial, it’s arguably the most challenging idea we face daily in our lives. We felt this deserved a more detailed approach to it. To that end, we discussed...

Self-Discipline

“The first and best victory is to conquer self.” —Plato  It’s a tale old as time. There’s so much for us to enjoy in this life. The world offers us plenty of means of entertainment and pleasure. And yet, most of us know all too well, that the way to true joy, comes through actually...