photo credit: juan.aguere Threatening situations tend to produce anxiety. A person who’s anxious feels tense, uneasy, apprehensive, worried, and vulnerable. This can lead to emotion-focused coping that’s… defensive in nature. Since anxiety is unpleasant and uncomfortable,...

photo credit: morbuto In “How to Gain Good Habits (and Break Bad Ones) Part 1”  I talked about what you can apply in order for you to gain the habits you want faster and easier. In this post I’ll talk about how to use the same behavioural psychology to help break bad habits. Don’t...

photo credit: 1suisse One of the most personal applications of behavioural psychology I’ve learned is in the formation and destruction of habits. Many people have learned to use reinforcement (rewards) and punishment to manage their own behaviour. This, then, is my invitation to you...

photo credit: Very Quiet Conflict occurs whenever a person must choose between contradictory needs, desires, motives, or demands. Choosing between school and work, marriage and single life, or study and failure are common conflicts. There are four general forms of conflict. Approach-Approach...

In Monday’s post I talked about how to remember and interpret your dreams. Today I’m going to talk about how to use your dreams and “lucid dreaming”. How To Use Your Dreams Creative people tend to remember more dreams. It could be that creative people pay more attention...

Hugh MacLeod’s next book is going to be called “EVIL PLANS”. Sadly, it’ll be released April 2011 (no sooner). However, he did write a fantastic post about the book and it consists of 25% of the draft of the book. The original post is quiet long and not for the fair of...

There’s this dude named Calvin Hall (a dream theorist) who thought of dreams as plays and the dreamer as a playwright. Hall admitted that dream images and ideas tend to be more primitive than waking thoughts. Nevertheless, much can be learned by simply considering the setting, cast of characters,...

photo credit: Eddi 07 No matter what some people may tell you, there is no magical formula for leading a more creative life. Self-actualization is primarily a process, not a goal or an end point. As such, it requires hard work, patience, and commitment. Here are a few way to begin. 1. Be willing...

photo credit: Ratzzz! Let’s talk about shyness. As a personality trait, shyness refers to a tendency to avoid others, as well as feelings of social inhibition (uneasiness and strain when socializing). Shy people fail to make eye contact, retreat when spoken to, speak too quietly, and...

It takes tremendous discipline, tremendous courage to think for yourself. W.B. Yeats said ‘It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield.’ Courage to think critically. Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher,...