Anxious People Also Get Anxious From Relaxing
http://bit.ly/2pGZptz Researchers have known about relaxation-induced anxiety since at least 1983, when a paper found that, in people with chronic tension, around 31 percent who tried progressive muscle relaxation (in which you focus on tensing and relaxing one set of muscles at a time, from head to toe), and 54 percent who tried meditation, ended…
Sharing a story is an act of faith
#ThoughtfulThursday pic.twitter.com/pyMAd3PDCW — MaleSurvivor (@MaleSurvivorORG) October 3, 2019
Second guess ourselves and spin out into an excruciating state of self-consciousness
http://bit.ly/2p0HHAT Self-awareness seems like a good thing because it allows you to know yourself, understand your motivations, and ultimately make better decisions. But it can also lead us to second guess ourselves and spin out into an excruciating state of self-consciousness, micro-analyzing every nuance of our thoughts and actions. Let’s take a closer look at…
Trust is a fragile flower
http://bit.ly/32ZrWZD Early in a romantic relationship, our emotional and sexual attraction is often strong. We may be baffled about why it fades over time, perhaps concluding that this isn’t the right partner. Our dissatisfaction and confusion may prompt us to end the relationship or stray mindlessly into an affair. One reason that our attraction may…
Is there such thing as an addictive personality?
http://bit.ly/2p7Rjdj To understand why the idea of an addictive personality is flawed, it’s important to first understand what psychologists mean when referring to personality. Personality is comprised of broad, measurable, stable, individual traits that predict behaviour. So by definition, engaging in excessive behaviours cannot be considered a personality trait. Though, there are personality traits that…
4 Tips for How to Stay Calm When Things Go Wrong
http://bit.ly/2nMcqlc 1. Don’t jump to conclusions before you have full information. Sometimes odd things happen in life. For example, once I got a message that said that multiple unknown attempts were being made to access my bank account. Of course, this freaked me out. However, it turned out that it wasn’t anything nefarious and was…
Peter Ellis dies before making last bid to clear name
http://bit.ly/355wpMg Ellis has always maintained his innocence, and in the book A City Possessed, the allegations, gender politics at the time, and the law were put under scrutiny. “The family are immensely proud of Peter and the dignified way he lived his life and wish to thank everyone for their support and to those who…
Why does Myers-Briggs feel so right when it is so wrong ?
http://bit.ly/2mZvQT2 2. We want to belong. A simple reason that we tend to identify with our personality test results is that we have an inherent need to belong. A friend of mine recently described her experience of taking the MBTI for the first time when she was in high school. As an artist, she felt…
Religious beings psychologically useful and ambiguous
http://bit.ly/2oyAvMk “This ambiguity attribute is interesting as it gives people latitude to form interpretations of religious beings that are personally appealing and plausible,” Dr Swan says. And whereas fictional beings were given character traits that defined them as heroes or villains, religious beings were more ambivalent and associated with similar ratings of benefit and harm,…