What Is Loving-Kindness Meditation?
Have you heard about loving-kindness meditation but you’re not sure what it is or how to do it? Or, do you want to try some different kinds of loving-kindness meditation? In this article, we’ll talk a bit about the research behind this type of meditation and give you some to try.
Tips to Motivate Your Mondays
People often have a challenging time feeling positive and motivated on Mondays. After a few days of rest and fun, returning to work can feel jarring and disruptive.
What Is Humanism?
Humanism is the belief in the capacity of our species to be rational and kind, and in our ability to see ourselves and each other as the infinitely complex and miraculously improbable organisms we all are without anticipation of eternal punishment or reward.
What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Have you ever heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? Perhaps it came up in an introductory psychology course you took or a popular media article on some topic in the social sciences that you read.
What Is Imposter Syndrome?
What’s it’s like to feel like an imposter? It goes something like this: when you’ve accomplished a goal or achieved success, your inner voice tells you it was just luck or that you’re underqualified.
Why Humans Continuously Revert to Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for evidence around us that supports the things we already believe, opinions we already have, and expectations we already hold (Nickerson, 1998).
Tips to Get You More Motivated
Learn about motivation and how to feel more authentically motivated. Motivation is an energizing force that drives you to take action. When you’re motivated, you feel excited and driven to start working towards a goal and to keep working towards that goal, even in the face of obstacles (Parks & Guay, 2009). It can even […]
5 Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation
Discover the benefits of this meditation technique and learn how to practice it. Many of us juggle multiple projects at our jobs, take care of our children or elderly relatives, and try to keep up with all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, bills, appointments, school recitals, and family gatherings. Some even wear that multitasking ability as […]
What Is Somatic Therapy?
Discover somatic therapy and how it can help you and the people you love. Many of our experiences in healing treat our mind and body like they are separate entities. The tradition of seeing things this way is called Cartesian dualism, named after the French philosopher, Rene Descartes, who thought our minds had no physical form and were […]