Category: Self-improvement
Steps to cultivate more positive emotions, fulfillment, and happiness
-
There is a lot to get out of books. And different people pick up on different things depending on what resonates with them. I, for example, may underline and annotate in detail something that you merely skim past and vice versa. Books (a form of human connection) as well as relationships, when showing us a…
-
My second grade teacher lets us have PE time once a day. On one of these days, we were playing a game of tug of war. We set up our teams and got ready, with one team on one side of the rope, and another team on the other, with a center point set up…
-
Our thoughts, emotions, and behavior all have a bidirectional relationship to each other (The CBT Triangle, n.d.). When our behavior, thoughts, or emotions are no longer serving us (whether they are causing anxiety / depression, relationship problems, mental stress), and we want to change them, an approach we can take is starting with changing our…
-
Have you ever tried to turn back downhill to your car during your hike, and then stopped yourself by saying, “No, let’s keep going, let’s make it to the top.” You want to get to the highest point offered on this hike with a satisfying end. You push through the last difficult moments and reach…
-
In college, my cognitive psychology class almost felt like a history class. Seemingly more so than psychological concepts, I learned about people – Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Edward Thorndike. In this way, I learned about the evolution of the field — how it ebbed and flowed with disproven theories and expanded ideas. I found this…
-
We are all made of inner matter — our conscious and subconscious thoughts, feelings, beliefs. This matter exudes outward in the form of our behaviors. In order to change our behaviors, then, we should put focus on changing our inner environment. Lots of us want to improve our lives. We want to change how we…
-
Sometimes, the idea of being held accountable feels scary. This is the case when it feels like an attack on our character—an experience deeply rooted in shame. Once we free ourselves from shame and recognize that guilt allows us to redeem ourselves, we can feel the gifts of accountability: earning (instead of being automatically granted)…
-
We often hear the phrases, “Nobody has life figured out,” and “Nobody knows what they are doing.” Upon hearing them for the first time, I felt relieved. I felt like I wasn’t doing enough in my school, I felt like everyone was happy all the time. I felt like there was something that I was…
-
When I first started practicing yoga, I was a bit surprised when I first heard the common saying from the instructors: “Do what feels good, do what feels right.” I asked myself “Really? Doing what feels right can help my physical and mental health? It doesn’t require something super difficult, strenuous, or hard?” I thought…
-
The opposite of love is not hate, but fear. When someone expresses an act of hate, it often is an expression of fear. In this post, I will: explain how, in modern society, fear primarily serves the ego discuss how love grounds us amidst fear consider how people lacking love seek safety illustrate the dangers…
