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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

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

Mental illness has become extremely prevalent in Western culture. Here are the most commons signs and symptoms to look out for.

Someone You Know May Be Suffering from a Serious Condition. Here Are the Most Common Signs to Look Out for.

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…

Fear. Your imagination getting the better of you with irrational thoughts overcoming your usual rational mind. Here are 5 techniques to help you cope.

How to Get Over Your Fears: 5 Proven Psychological Techniques To Help You Beat Your Fear

Because stress can inhibit your ability to perform at your highest potential, knowing how to manage it and stay calm is incredibly important...

How To Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed

Mind management is a mindfulness technique that allows you to step back and re-examine your thoughts. It acknowledges that our psychology has plenty to do with our physiology, and that our physical and mental wellbeing are inevitably intertwined. In mind management, you take each heavy, negative thought and reframe it in a manner that produces more motivational and productive output.

Mind Management 101: It’s About Both WHAT You Think and HOW You Think It.

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

It is important to understand what meditation actually is, rather than what you expect it be, or believe it should be. Don’t feel you have failed if you can’t sit still for half an hour. Don’t think you’re doing it wrong if you aren’t sitting on the floor in a Yoga position. And Don’t think you have to buy stuff to do it right, either. Do understand that your mind does not shut off during meditation; you may have thousands of thoughts and feelings as your ever-active mind finally begins the process of winding down and relaxing.

9 Meditation Tips (or Substitutes) For People Who Can’t Sit Still

The 5 Most Common Reasons People Fail At Achieving Their Dreams

How Highly Successful People Deal With Depression

Many people posit themselves as realists but consistently speak about the negativity around them and the lack of goodheartedness and integrity. This position doesn't add anything positive or assuring to the world or those who surround them. Not only is it totally ineffectual, it's actually harmful-- mostly to the perpetrator themselves. This kind of 'high-horse' attitude is simply a cleverly veiled form of cynicism, working very hard to hide the heart that pumps at its core: cowardice.

Four Reasons It’s Not Cynicism, But Cowardice.

In a world where it is old-fashioned to be private & suspicious to be secretive, we must work to hold the rights to our own story. Oversharing robs us of...

Oversharing & Online Privacy: Why You Don’t Owe Anyone Your Story

Mental illness still remains much more of a stigma in modern culture than it should. This leads to the perpetuation of many harmful myths. Here are 5.

5 Persistent Myths About Mental Illness Everyone Needs to Wake Up To

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

Stubborn negative thoughts are like poison to your brain. They will hinder you from making informed decisions and blur your perception about your life...

Negative, Repetitive Thoughts Can Be Killers. Here Are 7 Ways To Subdue Them.

There is no need to become an insensitive jerk in order to gain confidence, and neither do you have to remain a push-over if you want to hold onto the gifts your sensitivity has granted you. Here are 7 ways to gain confidence & effectiveness without becoming a jerk (or losing your sensitive side)...

7 Ways to Gain Confidence & Effectiveness Without Becoming a Jerk (or Losing Your Sensitive Side)

Smart people have it hard, too. Actually, some may argue-- even harder. This infographic displays both the good and bad habits of people with high IQ's...

This Infographic Displays Both The Good and Bad Habits of People With High IQ’s

So there's this pesky little thing about written history called the 'noble lie', presented in Plato's Republic & describing the creation of harmful myths...

10 Harmful Myths The Current Education System Persists In Perpetuating

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

Yes, you have voices in your head, whether you admit (or even know) it or not. These voices are, for most people, a curse, but they can be a blessing. Here are 3 steps to learning to hear and tame them.

The Only Difference Between A Crazy Person and You? Volume. Learning To Hear and Tame The Voices In Your Head.

When suicide happens, it so often blind-sides everyone who knew them. Be aware: here are six telling signs someone you know may be hiding depression...

Someone You Know May Be Hiding Depression. Here Are Six of the Most Telling Signs.

Everyone gets nervous or wonders about certain situations, but there are actually a few simple tricks - psychological life hacks - that work every time...

10 Psychological Life Hacks For Increased Self-Confidence and Insight

It doesn’t matter whether you are new at meditation or a seasoned practitioner, sometimes, for one reason or another, practicing can become, well, challenging. Here are 5 of the most common meditation challenges, and how to overcome them.

5 Common Meditation Challenges, and How to Overcome Them

5 Simple Tips for Standing Down your Stress

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

There is a difference between gossip and news - and it's one that you can feel, often just as you are about to personally partake in it...

9 Questions To Ask Yourself Next Time You’re About To Gossip

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

Mental illness has become extremely prevalent in Western culture. Here are the most commons signs and symptoms to look out for.

Someone You Know May Be Suffering from a Serious Condition. Here Are the Most Common Signs to Look Out for.

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…

Fear. Your imagination getting the better of you with irrational thoughts overcoming your usual rational mind. Here are 5 techniques to help you cope.

How to Get Over Your Fears: 5 Proven Psychological Techniques To Help You Beat Your Fear

Because stress can inhibit your ability to perform at your highest potential, knowing how to manage it and stay calm is incredibly important...

How To Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed

Mind management is a mindfulness technique that allows you to step back and re-examine your thoughts. It acknowledges that our psychology has plenty to do with our physiology, and that our physical and mental wellbeing are inevitably intertwined. In mind management, you take each heavy, negative thought and reframe it in a manner that produces more motivational and productive output.

Mind Management 101: It’s About Both WHAT You Think and HOW You Think It.

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

It is important to understand what meditation actually is, rather than what you expect it be, or believe it should be. Don’t feel you have failed if you can’t sit still for half an hour. Don’t think you’re doing it wrong if you aren’t sitting on the floor in a Yoga position. And Don’t think you have to buy stuff to do it right, either. Do understand that your mind does not shut off during meditation; you may have thousands of thoughts and feelings as your ever-active mind finally begins the process of winding down and relaxing.

9 Meditation Tips (or Substitutes) For People Who Can’t Sit Still

The 5 Most Common Reasons People Fail At Achieving Their Dreams

How Highly Successful People Deal With Depression

Many people posit themselves as realists but consistently speak about the negativity around them and the lack of goodheartedness and integrity. This position doesn't add anything positive or assuring to the world or those who surround them. Not only is it totally ineffectual, it's actually harmful-- mostly to the perpetrator themselves. This kind of 'high-horse' attitude is simply a cleverly veiled form of cynicism, working very hard to hide the heart that pumps at its core: cowardice.

Four Reasons It’s Not Cynicism, But Cowardice.

In a world where it is old-fashioned to be private & suspicious to be secretive, we must work to hold the rights to our own story. Oversharing robs us of...

Oversharing & Online Privacy: Why You Don’t Owe Anyone Your Story

Mental illness still remains much more of a stigma in modern culture than it should. This leads to the perpetuation of many harmful myths. Here are 5.

5 Persistent Myths About Mental Illness Everyone Needs to Wake Up To

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

Stubborn negative thoughts are like poison to your brain. They will hinder you from making informed decisions and blur your perception about your life...

Negative, Repetitive Thoughts Can Be Killers. Here Are 7 Ways To Subdue Them.

There is no need to become an insensitive jerk in order to gain confidence, and neither do you have to remain a push-over if you want to hold onto the gifts your sensitivity has granted you. Here are 7 ways to gain confidence & effectiveness without becoming a jerk (or losing your sensitive side)...

7 Ways to Gain Confidence & Effectiveness Without Becoming a Jerk (or Losing Your Sensitive Side)

Smart people have it hard, too. Actually, some may argue-- even harder. This infographic displays both the good and bad habits of people with high IQ's...

This Infographic Displays Both The Good and Bad Habits of People With High IQ’s

So there's this pesky little thing about written history called the 'noble lie', presented in Plato's Republic & describing the creation of harmful myths...

10 Harmful Myths The Current Education System Persists In Perpetuating

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

Yes, you have voices in your head, whether you admit (or even know) it or not. These voices are, for most people, a curse, but they can be a blessing. Here are 3 steps to learning to hear and tame them.

The Only Difference Between A Crazy Person and You? Volume. Learning To Hear and Tame The Voices In Your Head.

When suicide happens, it so often blind-sides everyone who knew them. Be aware: here are six telling signs someone you know may be hiding depression...

Someone You Know May Be Hiding Depression. Here Are Six of the Most Telling Signs.

Everyone gets nervous or wonders about certain situations, but there are actually a few simple tricks - psychological life hacks - that work every time...

10 Psychological Life Hacks For Increased Self-Confidence and Insight

It doesn’t matter whether you are new at meditation or a seasoned practitioner, sometimes, for one reason or another, practicing can become, well, challenging. Here are 5 of the most common meditation challenges, and how to overcome them.

5 Common Meditation Challenges, and How to Overcome Them

5 Simple Tips for Standing Down your Stress

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

There is a difference between gossip and news - and it's one that you can feel, often just as you are about to personally partake in it...

9 Questions To Ask Yourself Next Time You’re About To Gossip

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Five expert tips on how to stop procrastinating from psychologists, behavioural experts & mindfulness teachers. Don't procrastinate! Read this post now! ;)

5 Expert Tips On How to Stop Procrastinating

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…

We've all been there: a brief, impassioned action in the heat of the moment leads to decisions you regret in the aftermath. The solution...

How to Quit Making Decisions You Regret Later

I wrote these 5 steps, based on my own experiences, to help others get out of depression. Sometimes these simple things are all you need.

Get Out of Depression: 5 Simple Steps.

If you've ever suffered from panic attacks, social anxiety, excessive worrying, this Anxiety Survival Guide has been written for you.

The Anxiety Survival Guide: Tips, Tools and Techniques to Help You Manage and Thrive

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

The 5 Most Common Reasons People Fail At Achieving Their Dreams

The 5 Most Common Reasons People Fail At Achieving Their Dreams

Considering continuing education? You should. There are a number of ways continuing education can help you grow (not just intellectually). Here are six.

The Importance of Continuing Education: 6 Benefits You Probably Haven't Considered

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.

Anxiety disorders take many different forms, and therefore have many different methods for action against them. Here are 6 surprising facts...

6 Surprising Facts About Anxiety Disorders: Video and Infographic

Although will power usually works in our favor, some of us still struggle to utilize our will power effectively. Here are 8 ways to boost your will power.

8 Ways to Boost Your Will Power

You’ve probably been told that antidepressants correct the chemical imbalance in your brain. While this is of course true in many cases, and antidepressants can and do make a big difference in the lives of many -- when properly diagnosed -- there's more to it than that.

10 Ways to Treat Depression Without Antidepressants

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

Talking shit. Everyone's done it, including every one of us. But something we may not have considered while flapping our stinky gums is just what it says about us. New research...

The Science of Talking Shit: What You Say About Others Says A Lot About You

More people than not suffer in silence due to hidden mental health issues. Are you one of them? How we can begin to end the stigma.

Are You Hiding a Mental Health Issue? You’re Not Alone.

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)

We hear all about the potential benefits of meditation, but is it possible for this ancient practice to have a downside? As is often the case with westernization, it appears secular meditation and yoga teachings may have been stripped of many of their darker aspects. Here is some compelling evidence.

Does Meditation Have A Downside? An Interesting Look at Some Compelling Evidence

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I wrote these 5 steps, based on my own experiences, to help others get out of depression. Sometimes these simple things are all you need.

Get Out of Depression: 5 Simple Steps.

If you've ever suffered from panic attacks, social anxiety, excessive worrying, this Anxiety Survival Guide has been written for you.

The Anxiety Survival Guide: Tips, Tools and Techniques to Help You Manage and Thrive

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

The 5 Most Common Reasons People Fail At Achieving Their Dreams

The 5 Most Common Reasons People Fail At Achieving Their Dreams

Considering continuing education? You should. There are a number of ways continuing education can help you grow (not just intellectually). Here are six.

The Importance of Continuing Education: 6 Benefits You Probably Haven't Considered

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.

Anxiety disorders take many different forms, and therefore have many different methods for action against them. Here are 6 surprising facts...

6 Surprising Facts About Anxiety Disorders: Video and Infographic

Although will power usually works in our favor, some of us still struggle to utilize our will power effectively. Here are 8 ways to boost your will power.

8 Ways to Boost Your Will Power

You’ve probably been told that antidepressants correct the chemical imbalance in your brain. While this is of course true in many cases, and antidepressants can and do make a big difference in the lives of many -- when properly diagnosed -- there's more to it than that.

10 Ways to Treat Depression Without Antidepressants

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

Talking shit. Everyone's done it, including every one of us. But something we may not have considered while flapping our stinky gums is just what it says about us. New research...

The Science of Talking Shit: What You Say About Others Says A Lot About You

More people than not suffer in silence due to hidden mental health issues. Are you one of them? How we can begin to end the stigma.

Are You Hiding a Mental Health Issue? You’re Not Alone.

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)

We hear all about the potential benefits of meditation, but is it possible for this ancient practice to have a downside? As is often the case with westernization, it appears secular meditation and yoga teachings may have been stripped of many of their darker aspects. Here is some compelling evidence.

Does Meditation Have A Downside? An Interesting Look at Some Compelling Evidence