The nagging issues of my life have been (1) do I have the capacity for something grander, and (2) can I really accept my own strange uniqueness. It took a psychologist to help answer those questions. It didn't come through psychotherapy but through adopting, as a mentor, one of America's most esteemed psychologists, Abraham Maslow. I never met

"Defiant Child?" trumpets the half-page ad in my weekend newspaper'vs magazine section, offering help to change your kid's attitude and take back control of your family. I had a defiant child once. I overheard her having a telephone conversation with her best friend. It went something like this: "When they say 'no', you should say 'why not?' Whe

The term association refers to the ability to group various ideas and associating various events to that piece of memory. While the transfer of particular events to the brain takes place, it is stored in reference with another event. Hence, when we come across some new event, we relate that with another event that is already in our minds. This proc

The Laws of Attraction can help you achieve anything you wish for. In fact, they can completely transform your life and the way you lead it. However, one of the main aspects of our lives that help us live life according to our yearning is wealth. It is wealth that helps us achieve what we set out to achieve. From the daily meal to a new car, we ne

The memory is the ability to store the events, things and details that we have come across in our life. Not only humans, but even animals have memory. The brain stores all the necessary information about some event or thing, only if it watched, heard or sensed carefully. Any information that our senses have obtained is gathered and stored in the br

It is common for people who have completed alcohol rehab, and remained sober for a year or two, to begin to wonder why they are continuing to attend various groups and meetings. It's a good question. While some people may need, or prefer, to continue their participation, others can safely occupy themselves with other activities. The question is, wh

Consciousness is the fact of awareness of our thinking, feeling and doing. That is to say things that are done by a person, when the person knows that he is doing them. Although what a person does i.e. 'the response to external stimuli' may differ from person to person or even in the same person from time to time, the fact that every person is capa

As the treatment of alcohol related conditions has become more sophisticated, the use of medications has too. Until recently the only commonly prescribed adjunct was disulfiram (Antabuse), an aversive drug whose use resulted in violent illness when combined with even trace amounts of alcohol. That worked for those willing to risk the results and fi

The role of psychology and psychologist today covers a wide spectrum. The use of a trained practitioner can help us resolve many issues we face by the analyzation of our emotions. Psychology has come a long way from being labeled as a service for the crazy. A psychologist is to be both a scientist and practitioner of the profession. A psycholog

If you think that you never have a hot temper, you may want to read this. Every person has hot temper. Only most of us have it hidden in our subconscious mind. It is like a sleeping volcano waiting to explode. Once it comes, it acts so fast that you can hardly control it. Anger is one of the biggest causes of fighting or assaults nowadays and has b

Law of attraction stands to be a universal force that helps you attract whatever you focus your attention on. This power allows us to make their emotions and thoughts come true to reality. Right from beginning of creation of this law-of-attraction, it has been existent. There are many great people who have been practicing this law for a long time.

Dreams, it may not that essential to you, has taken part somehow for our total being. They can tell us a lot about our lives as well as give us a hint about secret desires- our ecstasy, aspirations and ambitions. The trouble with dreams, however, is that, more often than not, they come to in a form of a bizarre mumbo-jumbo, more likely to make it m

Spirit Limited In the Flesh : The spirit in man is for the time being bounded by the flesh; the cocoon of man, if you please. The same God spirit which directs in the individual, handicapped as it may be by the fleshly tabernacle, will some time leave the body and go into another and higher sphere of progress, as the butterfly leaves the cocoon. An

For you to understand why hypnotism is possible, its causes and effects and the results which can be achieved with it, you should not only know how to induce the state of hypnosis, but you should know some of the rules of the mind. These rules explain why hypnotism is possible. Rule Number One Every thought or idea causes a physical reaction.

When an individual has a social anxiety disorder or social phobia, everyday situations can become so overwhelming. These state of emotion can become intense and can vary from one individual to another. Individuals can fear different types of situations that have anxiety disorders. Those that have social anxiety disorders may have some of these sym