Category Archives: Positive Psychology

Distaste for the fatuous breeziness of self help has also possibly encouraged a rejection of all psychology as light weight and worthless. But the message of serious psychology is the opposite of that of self help – fulfilment is not easy, but exhaustingly difficult.

Shuddhaanandaa Brahamchari The more we practice cultivating our mind as our best friend, the more we find that no one can make us unhappy unless we resolve to be unhappy. No outside circumstance can make us unhappy unless we agree to become unhappy, unless we sign the contract to be unhappy. There is a contract […]

What is ‘Flow’? Have you ever been so engrossed in performing a certain activity that almost lost track of what’s happening in your immediate environment? You enjoyed the task so much that you became oblivious to everything else. You could be reading a book, stitching a napkin or watering your garden for quite some time […]

Well-Being should be taught in school. Considering the phenomenal increase in cases of depression among the children attending school it is absolutely must that we taught well-being in our schools. By some estimates depression is about ten times more common now then it was fifty years ago. Typically in an American society this is not […]

I’d be lying both to myself and the person reading this if I claim that the struggle or the social stigma around crying is over. The rolling down of tears can be one of the many blacklisted natural human responses. It invites judgement of being weak or extra sensitive and tonnes of tissues, as if […]

For Sadness 1. Be Sad Don’t force yourself to be happy. As long as you get the work done, no one will notice. You can write down your sad thoughts in an email to yourself or bring a stress relieving toy to work. It’s important not to hold your sad thoughts, let them out. Otherwise […]

A financial crisis can affect not only your professional or personal life but most importantly, your health. It can make you feel as if turning things around will be impossible. 

It is all down to your brains prefrontal cortex. This part of your brain is largely responsible for your willpower, but it is also the area that deals with your short term memory; helping  you to solve abstract problems and keep focused. It would appear that it cannot do both.

she knew that Martin needed strength, she also knew she had to break his pattern of fear   as well her own. She took immediate action and accomplished it all with one statement when he opened his eyes she smiled brightly and said, “It is just a movie babe! it is only a movie! ” Martin said that in that moment he knew he was going to make it and begin to heal.

Your brain difficult time distinguishing between what you see with your eyes and what you visualise in your mind. Infact, MRI scans of people’s brains taken while they are watching the sun set are virtually indistinguishable from scans taken when the same people visualised a  sun set in their mind. The same brain regions are active in both scenarios.