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“We may not be responsible for the world that created our mind, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” ~ Gabor Maté

Dualism of Descartes

How the Dualism of Descartes Ruined Our Mental Health

The Lucid Dreaming Playbook: How to Take Charge of Your Dreams

The Lucid Dreaming Playbook: How to Take Charge of Your Dreams

It’s fairly obvious when somebody comes up to you and says “I don’t like you,” but less so when that person takes a disapproving glance at your car, or makes a backhanded critical remark about someone famous that you happen to know or admire. In many cases these are almost like long-term subliminal negative advertising campaigns, where someone will make repeated but barely perceptible stabs at something you like and identify with. And there is the key to your freedom. Right there in the words “something you like and identify with.” Because if you didn’t identify with your car, you wouldn't take it personally if someone were to disapprove of it. If your sense of self weren’t invested in knowing or admiring that famous person, that critical remark would not have anything to do with you personally at all.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Fear of Success and imposter syndrome - manifestations of an attachment to results.

How To Heal Fear of Success & Imposter Syndrome

How Modern Technology Is Akin To The Metaphysics Of Vedanta

How Modern Technology Is Akin To The Metaphysics Of Vedanta

You'll inevitably find that a lot of things change when you get OK with "not being OK". But how to do this? It's somewhat paradoxical. For me, it started during a breakdown in the middle of a small park in Shanghai...

Why It’s OK to Not Be OK

Creativity and mental illness have long been connected. Here are 8 creative geniuses who struggled with mental disorders.

8 Historical Geniuses Who Had Mental Illnesses

Something about "self-help" is fundamentally uncool. Yet beneath all of the surface fluff, gems can be found. Here are 5 self help books that actually help.

5 Self Help Books That Actually Helped

The modern world is a pot-boiler of stress-inducing ingredients. Here's 6 simple steps for silencing the monkey mind & reducing stress levels.

6 Simple Steps to Silencing the Monkey Mind and Reducing Your Stress Level

Psychotherapist and adjunct college psychology instructor Amy Morin guides us on how to build a strong mind by showing us the 13 things mentally strong people don't do...

How to Build a Strong Mind ~ 13 Habits to Leave Behind

A Core Secret of Happiness: How to Not be Offended

Comparison is part of being a human, it seems, but the way in which we compare ourselves to others on social media is dangerously out of proportion...

The Dangerous Ways We Compare Ourselves on Social Media and How To Stop

What is the true provenance of heaven and hell? Not out there, but here, in this life? Is it possible they could be... a little closer to home?

The Only Difference Between Heaven and Hell? Your Mind.

True success is not defined by money or fame, but the quality of the life you create. This depends primarily on the way you treat others...

5 Reminders That Will Help You Achieve TRUE Success

A very helpful list of the most common forms of psychological self sabotage to enable you to better recognize the inner saboteur when s/he becomes active...

Is Your Thinking Distorted? 15 Common Forms of Psychological Self Sabotage

While the leading thought on intelligence (and having a high IQ) is that it's genetically determined, what about wisdom? What about emotional intelligence?

So You Have a High IQ. Why That’s Only Half the Story.

An integral part of achieving success in any field is to learn how to accept criticism & and then learning FROM it. Here are 5 steps to get you there...

5 Steps to Learning How to Accept Criticism With Appreciation

Many of us have a tendency to make problems worse as we try to solve them. The reason? Overthinking. Here's 4 extremely effective ways to quit overthinking.

Quit Overthinking: 5 Ways of Solving Problems Without Overthinking

Science shows us just how the process of re-wiring our own brain works: This beautiful infographic displays the incredible benefits of neuroplasticity...

Neuroplasticity Examples and Exercises Laid Out In A Beautiful Infographic

There are a lot of myths about depression, but there are an especially high amount surrounding depression in men. Here 4 of them are dispelled.

4 Myths About Depression In Men

It turns out that overthinkers may also possess the potential for creative genius -- IF they can get a handle on it without running off the rails...

A Recent Study Revealed Overthinkers May Also Be Creative Geniuses. If You’re One, Here’s How to Tap That Genius.

The Different Brainwaves of Consciousness: Gateways to Higher States of Being?

7 Ways Your Life Will Improve Once You Stop Taking Things Personally

Personality type. Is it written in stone? Probably not completely (as was the theory for years). Science seems to be suggesting some interesting potential.

Is it Possible to Change Your Personality Type?

With physical exercise forever being touted as the conqueror of depression and negativity, the idea of mental stimulation often falls to the wayside. But reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As little (or as much) as a half hour a day can work wonders..

4 Ways A Daily Diet of Reading Can Improve Your Mental and Physical Well-Being

Because I’ve been beaten, cursed at, cut, burnt, scratched, and left screaming into the night more times than I can count, I’ve learned to predict how others will react to what I say or do. And most of the time, I am right.

I Recently Had My First Therapy Session. Here’s What It Did For Me.

Don’t Believe Everything You Think: 10 Irrational Beliefs That Need To Be Questioned

Those who are best at what they do, whether they’re in the arts, sports, or medicine, tend to be the best because they understand that their work is “bigger” than them. Like those people, your...

How Realizing It’s Not All About You Can Enable You to Do Some Amazing Things…

It is quite easy to demonize money and all forms of material wealth, particularly for those of us who eye the rich with suspicion. Yet what about us, and...

How You May Be Sabotaging Yourself When It Comes To Money

Surrounded By Small-Minded People? Chances Are You May Be One Yourself.

Dualism of Descartes

How the Dualism of Descartes Ruined Our Mental Health

The Lucid Dreaming Playbook: How to Take Charge of Your Dreams

The Lucid Dreaming Playbook: How to Take Charge of Your Dreams

It’s fairly obvious when somebody comes up to you and says “I don’t like you,” but less so when that person takes a disapproving glance at your car, or makes a backhanded critical remark about someone famous that you happen to know or admire. In many cases these are almost like long-term subliminal negative advertising campaigns, where someone will make repeated but barely perceptible stabs at something you like and identify with. And there is the key to your freedom. Right there in the words “something you like and identify with.” Because if you didn’t identify with your car, you wouldn't take it personally if someone were to disapprove of it. If your sense of self weren’t invested in knowing or admiring that famous person, that critical remark would not have anything to do with you personally at all.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Fear of Success and imposter syndrome - manifestations of an attachment to results.

How To Heal Fear of Success & Imposter Syndrome

How Modern Technology Is Akin To The Metaphysics Of Vedanta

How Modern Technology Is Akin To The Metaphysics Of Vedanta

You'll inevitably find that a lot of things change when you get OK with "not being OK". But how to do this? It's somewhat paradoxical. For me, it started during a breakdown in the middle of a small park in Shanghai...

Why It’s OK to Not Be OK

Creativity and mental illness have long been connected. Here are 8 creative geniuses who struggled with mental disorders.

8 Historical Geniuses Who Had Mental Illnesses

Something about "self-help" is fundamentally uncool. Yet beneath all of the surface fluff, gems can be found. Here are 5 self help books that actually help.

5 Self Help Books That Actually Helped

The modern world is a pot-boiler of stress-inducing ingredients. Here's 6 simple steps for silencing the monkey mind & reducing stress levels.

6 Simple Steps to Silencing the Monkey Mind and Reducing Your Stress Level

Psychotherapist and adjunct college psychology instructor Amy Morin guides us on how to build a strong mind by showing us the 13 things mentally strong people don't do...

How to Build a Strong Mind ~ 13 Habits to Leave Behind

A Core Secret of Happiness: How to Not be Offended

Comparison is part of being a human, it seems, but the way in which we compare ourselves to others on social media is dangerously out of proportion...

The Dangerous Ways We Compare Ourselves on Social Media and How To Stop

What is the true provenance of heaven and hell? Not out there, but here, in this life? Is it possible they could be... a little closer to home?

The Only Difference Between Heaven and Hell? Your Mind.

True success is not defined by money or fame, but the quality of the life you create. This depends primarily on the way you treat others...

5 Reminders That Will Help You Achieve TRUE Success

A very helpful list of the most common forms of psychological self sabotage to enable you to better recognize the inner saboteur when s/he becomes active...

Is Your Thinking Distorted? 15 Common Forms of Psychological Self Sabotage

While the leading thought on intelligence (and having a high IQ) is that it's genetically determined, what about wisdom? What about emotional intelligence?

So You Have a High IQ. Why That’s Only Half the Story.

An integral part of achieving success in any field is to learn how to accept criticism & and then learning FROM it. Here are 5 steps to get you there...

5 Steps to Learning How to Accept Criticism With Appreciation

Many of us have a tendency to make problems worse as we try to solve them. The reason? Overthinking. Here's 4 extremely effective ways to quit overthinking.

Quit Overthinking: 5 Ways of Solving Problems Without Overthinking

Science shows us just how the process of re-wiring our own brain works: This beautiful infographic displays the incredible benefits of neuroplasticity...

Neuroplasticity Examples and Exercises Laid Out In A Beautiful Infographic

There are a lot of myths about depression, but there are an especially high amount surrounding depression in men. Here 4 of them are dispelled.

4 Myths About Depression In Men

It turns out that overthinkers may also possess the potential for creative genius -- IF they can get a handle on it without running off the rails...

A Recent Study Revealed Overthinkers May Also Be Creative Geniuses. If You’re One, Here’s How to Tap That Genius.

The Different Brainwaves of Consciousness: Gateways to Higher States of Being?

7 Ways Your Life Will Improve Once You Stop Taking Things Personally

Personality type. Is it written in stone? Probably not completely (as was the theory for years). Science seems to be suggesting some interesting potential.

Is it Possible to Change Your Personality Type?

With physical exercise forever being touted as the conqueror of depression and negativity, the idea of mental stimulation often falls to the wayside. But reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As little (or as much) as a half hour a day can work wonders..

4 Ways A Daily Diet of Reading Can Improve Your Mental and Physical Well-Being

Because I’ve been beaten, cursed at, cut, burnt, scratched, and left screaming into the night more times than I can count, I’ve learned to predict how others will react to what I say or do. And most of the time, I am right.

I Recently Had My First Therapy Session. Here’s What It Did For Me.

Don’t Believe Everything You Think: 10 Irrational Beliefs That Need To Be Questioned

Those who are best at what they do, whether they’re in the arts, sports, or medicine, tend to be the best because they understand that their work is “bigger” than them. Like those people, your...

How Realizing It’s Not All About You Can Enable You to Do Some Amazing Things…

It is quite easy to demonize money and all forms of material wealth, particularly for those of us who eye the rich with suspicion. Yet what about us, and...

How You May Be Sabotaging Yourself When It Comes To Money

Surrounded By Small-Minded People? Chances Are You May Be One Yourself.

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Though it is often hard to recognize in youth & young-adulthood, you may come to realize after a few years that you have a pattern of sabotaging yourself...

How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself Just When You’re on to Something Good

If you are living on this planet, you are brainwashed, in one way or another. Here are 4 ways to take the power back, get to the business of unlearning, and give your brain the long-needed bath it's been waiting for. One administered by the best person to do so: you.

How to Clean Your Brain: 4 Steps to Unlearning the Concepts that Lead to Crummy Consciousness

So much of the self-help world is filled with endless iterations of 'think positive'. Yet how often does it actually work? Is it delusion, or the real deal?

Positive Thinking: When it Works and When it Doesn’t

Just about every single event that a person can experience on this Earth can be approached in one of two ways: cynically or enthusiastically. Which are you? A cynic or enthusiast? Do you even know?

Are You A Cynic or Enthusiast? Your Quality of Life Hangs in the Balance– Literally.

Why The Fear of Negative Emotions Is Really A Fear of Life

Why The Fear of Negative Emotions Is Really A Fear of Life

When you're going through hard times, it can feel like the world is ending. It isn't. Here are 9 mantras essential to overcoming hard times...

Overcoming Hard Times: 9 Mantras To Live By

Why do people waste their valuable cognition on bad news? The answer runs deeper than one might expect. Here's a brief look at why people love tabloids so much...

Why People Love Tabloids, and What it Says About Human Psychology

Color psychology has you buying, pining and vying for certain brands-- and you didn't even know it. Here are some basics on how color psychology works...

Color Psychology: How Color Controls Your Emotions, Buying Decisions and More…

Is LSD a "back door to zen"? Many experienced meditators, including Eckhart Tolle & Sam Harris have spoken of their experiences with enlightenment & LSD.

The Enlightenment / LSD Connection

Facing your fears needn't be terrifying. Here, Dr. Neil Thompson writes about the 'extend, recover, renew' mindfulness process adapted from physical fitness routines...

The Simple 3-Step Process For Muscle Development That Can Be Used In Mindfulness

There is a difference between being forcibly positive and being mindful. One is denial while the other is total acceptance. Optimism is...

Are You Deluding Yourself With Positive Thinking? Being Realistic About The Limits Of Optimism.

Transformation is the essence of all things, yet we are stubbornly resistant to it. Here are 4 of the most important "To Do's" in attaining (and maintaining) peace of mind.

4 of the Most Important “To Do’s” in Attaining (and Maintaining) Peace of Mind

Most of us experience anger from time to time. It is a natural emotion. Some, however, repress it. Is this you? 22 signs you're repressing too much anger...

22 Signs You’re Repressing Too Much Anger

Believe it or not the #1 problem in the world is an addiction to thinking (too much). Ask any buddhist monk: quitting it will change everything. Here are 5 reasons to.

5 Reasons to Quit the World’s #1 Addiction: THINKING (Too Much)

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Just about every single event that a person can experience on this Earth can be approached in one of two ways: cynically or enthusiastically. Which are you? A cynic or enthusiast? Do you even know?

Are You A Cynic or Enthusiast? Your Quality of Life Hangs in the Balance– Literally.

Why The Fear of Negative Emotions Is Really A Fear of Life

Why The Fear of Negative Emotions Is Really A Fear of Life

When you're going through hard times, it can feel like the world is ending. It isn't. Here are 9 mantras essential to overcoming hard times...

Overcoming Hard Times: 9 Mantras To Live By

Why do people waste their valuable cognition on bad news? The answer runs deeper than one might expect. Here's a brief look at why people love tabloids so much...

Why People Love Tabloids, and What it Says About Human Psychology

Color psychology has you buying, pining and vying for certain brands-- and you didn't even know it. Here are some basics on how color psychology works...

Color Psychology: How Color Controls Your Emotions, Buying Decisions and More…

Is LSD a "back door to zen"? Many experienced meditators, including Eckhart Tolle & Sam Harris have spoken of their experiences with enlightenment & LSD.

The Enlightenment / LSD Connection

Facing your fears needn't be terrifying. Here, Dr. Neil Thompson writes about the 'extend, recover, renew' mindfulness process adapted from physical fitness routines...

The Simple 3-Step Process For Muscle Development That Can Be Used In Mindfulness

There is a difference between being forcibly positive and being mindful. One is denial while the other is total acceptance. Optimism is...

Are You Deluding Yourself With Positive Thinking? Being Realistic About The Limits Of Optimism.

Transformation is the essence of all things, yet we are stubbornly resistant to it. Here are 4 of the most important "To Do's" in attaining (and maintaining) peace of mind.

4 of the Most Important “To Do’s” in Attaining (and Maintaining) Peace of Mind

Most of us experience anger from time to time. It is a natural emotion. Some, however, repress it. Is this you? 22 signs you're repressing too much anger...

22 Signs You’re Repressing Too Much Anger

Believe it or not the #1 problem in the world is an addiction to thinking (too much). Ask any buddhist monk: quitting it will change everything. Here are 5 reasons to.

5 Reasons to Quit the World’s #1 Addiction: THINKING (Too Much)