Your thoughts are more powerful than you really know. Your expectations from life determine your reality. And when it comes to achieving your goals, if you don’t believe you’ll succeed, you won’t. Latest research from LSU shows that people who believe in themselves use more metacognitive functions than those who don’t. This means that they […]
Category Archives: Positive Psychology
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Yes, you are using these mechanisms almost each day. Yes, you are unaware of their usage. Yes, you should now become aware of them.
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By Sahil Gadhavi Positive psychology is a movement started by professor Martin Seligman. It is a field of psychology which studies the power of psychology in improving the daily experience of humans. It recognizes the difficulty of existence and seeks to ease it with a better understanding of the human mind & behavior. Today there […]
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If you want to change how you feel, the most important thing to know is who is responsible for your emotions in general and your happiness in particular. Many of us often find ourselves saying, “He made me angry”, “She really really upset me” and so on. This shows you have given control of your […]
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Imagine that you decide to volunteer for an experiment. You reach the laboratory and are asked to perform the boring task of filling the beakers with water and placing them onto the trays for a good 15 minutes. Once you do the needful, the experimenter thanks you and tells you to describe your boring task […]
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Client-centered therapy or person-centered therapy is a non-directive kind of talk therapy developed by Carl Rogers. Coming from a humanistic perspective, Rogers believed that people are innately good. He also strongly believed that people have an actualizing tendency or the ability to work towards achieving the best they can out of themselves. And based on […]
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Arguably one of the most significant contributions of psychology is that our understanding of ourselves is more defined by what we believe in our heads than by the actual external world that we experience.
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Man has tried to be unnatural. We are not willing to be natural; all our culture and civilization have been nothing but an effort to be unnatural. We should not be as we are; we have to be something else. This race to be something else, something different, has destroyed all our spontaneity and naturalness. […]
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“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.” – Santiago Ramón y Cajal Neuroplasticity is the capability of our brain to change and rewire itself in response to experience and learning. As we grow older, though the rate of neuroplasticity might not remain what it was when we […]
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Mindfulness is the intentional practice of becoming aware of the present moment, without any judgement. The term has been tossed around, by motivational speakers, app creators, websites, businesses, doctors and so many more with such ease that the term has almost lost its original balminess in the minds of many. But when practiced with intent, […]