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The sensations surged up from deep inside, like a geyser about to blow: a mix of sadness, anxiety, and shame that would overwhelm anyone, especially teenagers.
“I took out the blade from a pencil sharpener and cut myself”, a secondary school student told me. “I didn’t know if it would help. ... Views: 8
Consider your marriage. How satisfied are you with it, overall? Have you ever spoken honestly about this with your partner? Marriage satisfaction is a very personal experience that varies greatly from person to person. It is essential to express your demands and feelings honestly and openly ... Views: 34
We all have an “inner child,” which is an unconscious archetype coined by Carl Jung. It holds our vulnerability, spontaneity, creativity, curiosity, and magical ideas. It also holds fears, anxiety, shame, loneliness, and insecurity experienced growing up and is a vital part in healing ... Views: 91
The Buddhist tradition describes Manjushri as a Bodhisattva who, with his flaming sword of discrimination, cuts through illusion and falsehood to disclose the truth of existence. The power of discrimination between different powers, forces, impressions, suggestions, and their source and intent ... Views: 155
We tend to believe that we are a single, consistent and harmonized individuality, personality, character. For the most part, we are not self-reflective enough to recognise the inconsistencies and inner conflicts that take place within the being, due to different drives, needs, desires, and ... Views: 113
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that studies the relationship between the brain and behavior. It is concerned with how the brain works, how it affects behavior and cognition, and how it is affected by injury, disease, or aging. Cognitive decline is a condition that is associated with ... Views: 169
As people age, they may experience cognitive decline, which can range from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia. This decline can affect memory, attention, language, and problem-solving abilities. As a result, elderly individuals may experience difficulties completing day-to-day ... Views: 122
As people age, they may experience cognitive decline, which can range from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia. This decline can affect memory, attention, language, and problem-solving abilities. As a result, elderly individuals may experience difficulties completing day-to-day ... Views: 127
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a devastating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It occurs when an external force causes damage to the brain, leading to a range of symptoms and impairments that can affect a person's physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being. While there is ... Views: 135
Intermittent fasting (IF) has been studied for its potential benefits on various aspects of health and cognition, including neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.
Several studies have suggested that intermittent fasting can promote neuroplasticity, which is the brain's ability to adapt and ... Views: 183
Self-care is a buzzword that has been gaining popularity in recent years, with more and more people recognizing the importance of taking care of their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. While self-care often involves activities that are focused solely on oneself, such as meditation or a ... Views: 130
Problem-Solving in Our VUCA World
by
Bill Cottringer
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ~Alan Greenspan.
The new virtual VUCA world we are part of today requires a new set of problem-solving ... Views: 136
Understanding Extreme Behavior
By
Bill Cottringer
“Human behavior flows from three main sources—desire, emotion, and knowledge.” ~Plato.
Is it my imagination or is extreme behavior becoming more commonplace these days? Is the incident rate of extreme behavior actually increasing or ... Views: 178
Spring is finally here, and with the brighter and warmer days ahead of us, it’s time to focus on what truly matters - our mental health. Particularly, mental health is something that is often stigmatized and overlooked, but now that we’re in the spring of 2023, mental health is becoming ... Views: 121
The human brain is responsible for all of our cognitive functions, including memory. Memory is an essential aspect of our daily lives, allowing us to store and retrieve information when needed. However, traumatic brain injury (TBI) can significantly impact memory function, making it difficult ... Views: 136
Many people are skeptical about the possibility of true change to human nature. This skepticism is supported by the long experience humanity has had in trying various ways of changing and overcoming habits, atavisms and what are considered to be the ‘natural’ forms of expression and action of ... Views: 137
According to a recent study published in the journal Hypertension by Drs. Eric B. Larson and Christopher J. Bundy, high blood pressure can bring about a decrease in brain volume as well as cognitive function gradually. In the research study, Drs. Larson and also Bundy used magnetic vibration ... Views: 159
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that certain individuals, by virtue of their innate status as superior beings, could not be bound by social rules or morality or ethics. While the implication may be understood to apply to those who have evolved beyond the ‘need’ for such contextual social rules, the ... Views: 133
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The domestic reservations phone number for Delta Airlines is 18086--467010, and the international reservations phone number is 18086--467010, as of 2015. These phone numbers ... Views: 115
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The domestic reservations phone number for Delta Airlines is 18086--467010, and the international reservations phone number is 18086--467010, as of 2015. These ... Views: 127
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The domestic reservations phone number for Delta Airlines is 18086--467010, and the international reservations phone number is 18086--467010, as of 2015. These phone ... Views: 117
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The domestic reservations phone number for Delta Airlines is 1-8024--564400, and the international reservations phone number is 1-8024--564400, as of 2015. These phone numbers are ... Views: 124
Many people focus on their physical and mental health, but usually only when it comes to ailments involving pain or stress to some degree. Very rarely do they actively seek ways to improve the function of their brain.
Yet brain power is what carries you throughout your day. It determines ... Views: 202
Looking at a forecast and seeing rain or thunderstorms all week long can be distressing for a golfer. Any golfer can feel agonized by having to keep their clubs in the garage till the gloomy skies clear.But where are you expected to practice if the weather is bad and the course is closed for a ... Views: 152
It is a typical belief that through the use of logic, argument or some kind of pressure that is exerted, through perhaps an enforced dogma or belief system, that opinions and beliefs can be changed. It is true that the power of an idea may capture an individual’s focus and support. It is also ... Views: 170
If we look at the individual life as separate from the rest of the creation, and claim that it starts at birth and ends at death, there seems to be no rationale or meaning for that life, nor can we explain the evolutionary progression of awareness, understanding, growth, and development that we ... Views: 197
Many studies have been done, and real-life examples have shown the power of a body of people focused on a particular feeling, thought or action. Mob psychology shows that individuals who otherwise might be seen as quiet and peaceful can be riled up into paroxysms of anger when part of an angry ... Views: 149
One can clearly appreciate the unique nature of the integral yoga when one reflects on the preparation needed for the practice when compared to the preparations required for numerous other paths of yoga. The 8 steps set forth in Patanjali’s yoga sutras include two preparatory stages, called ... Views: 152
If we examine closely our mental state when we undertake activities with which we are familiar, experienced and educated, we see that our minds are sharp, our perceptions are detailed and our understanding is precise. We find it easiest to achieve this status with external things, although some ... Views: 195
When we live primarily, or entirely, focused on our external life via the instruments of the body, life-force and mind, we cannot determine nor recognise the purpose and significance of our existence. We may speculate. We may hold opinions. We may adhere to some doctrine, such as a religious ... Views: 140
We feel like something is missing in our lives. It could be something material, it could be just a pang of hunger or thirst. It could be a sense of emotional emptiness, unattached to a specific object. We may feel like we need to find out something, do something, know something, respond to ... Views: 159
Dr. Dean Ornish held a webinar on Sunday November 20, 2022 with the Vegan Society of Honolulu, Hawaii, in which he succinctly explained the role of suffering in the progress of humanity. For those who do not know about his work, Dr. Ornish has spent decades studying the impact of diet and ... Views: 143
Everyone believes they are ‘conscious’. Spiritual seekers, especially, having awakened from the purely mechanical, habitual processes of the external life, certainly believe they are conscious. Those who believe in various religious traditions, by virtue of that belief, accept that they are ... Views: 138
When we read Sri Aurobindo’s aphorism noted below, we tend to focus on the second part of the equation, the “bar” to achieving the higher result. There is an implication thereby that we have already achieved the first part and that we are thus ready to proceed to the next phase or stage of inner ... Views: 140
As the seeker begins to examine his life, he quickly finds that virtually all his thoughts, emotions, feelings and actions are based on habitual patterns, either ingrained in the human encoding as a species, or developed through socialisation in a society or civilisation, through family ... Views: 169
It is a quality of human nature. When things are going well, we are happy and contented, we tend not to make extraordinary efforts or focus on change. We feel like things are where they should be in our lives, and we move into ‘enjoyment mode’ rather than ‘change mode’. In some cases, we believe ... Views: 162
If we reflect carefully, we will recognise that much of what takes place in our lives occurs without our conscious awareness, participation or control. The activity of the cells, the nervous system, the internal organs are all virtually automatic functions that elude conscious oversight. Very ... Views: 140
When we reflect on the evolution of consciousness, it becomes obvious to us that nothing can evolve out of Matter that is not already involved in some way. We plant an acorn, and an oak tree grows. Someone unfamiliar with the science would treat this as a magical event. We put one form of ... Views: 151
Several days ago a seeker raised a question, rephrased here: “I read Sri Aurobindo’s writings regularly and for a time they stay active within me, but then, it falls away and I feel blank inside. Am I losing the benefit of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching, and if so, how can I ensure that it stays ... Views: 170
We very easily fall into the mistaken idea that the path we follow is the best way to approach the Divine or achieve spiritual realisation and that other paths are either less effective or do not provide the complete liberation from the ego-personality. We also tend to accept the idea that ... Views: 154
In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, there are 8 limbs, or steps, systematically presented as the basis for the practice of Yoga. The first two of these, known as yamas and niyamas present preliminary practices to purify and stabilize the being to prepare for the practice of yoga. Many people consider ... Views: 164
Each individual has a unique way of relating to and developing his spiritual aspiration. Those who are more intellectually inclined may find that they naturally incline towards what is known as the yoga of knowledge. Those who have a nature more inclined to devotion and emotional expression may ... Views: 155
We can identify a systematic evolution of consciousness in the external world. Life evolves out of Matter, Mind out of Life. We do not, however, thereby determine either a significance or purpose to this evolution nor any causative factors that involve mind and life into matter such that they ... Views: 141
The Rishis of the Rig Veda place Agni at the beginning and in a central role in the spiritual development they described. The flame of aspiration, the ‘knower of all things born’, the mystic fire is the starting point for spiritual growth. This flame resides in the psychic being, the soul, ... Views: 170
In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo devotes a chapter to the ‘sevenfold ignorance’. While we are fixated on our external mind, life and body and the life we lead in the external world, we remain ignorant of the forces at work, behind the scenes, to create what we call our being and personality, ... Views: 151
When looked at from the outside, it seems that Matter came first and out of Matter arose Life and out of Life arose Mind. What is not addressed here is how material forces were able to create life and intelligence, in a seemingly random fashion. This is why some religious traditions posit that ... Views: 159
If we focus on the experience of our normal, daily lives, we will find that it can be characterised by a specific feeling or quality that we know as our usual experience. While each individual may have a different characterisation of this experience, some happy, some sad, some joyful, some ... Views: 304
We have seen a phenomenal growth of practices that bring attention to our daily actions. Mindfulness training asks us to attend to each movement, each step, each bite of food, and each thought and emotion. Clearly with the amount of distraction we suffer from as a result of our love affair with ... Views: 179
Personal growth and inner growth, the enhancement of the human being and its capabilities and the transcendence of the human being to develop a being awake and active with a new level of consciousness, are not in conflict with one another. The human being must develop to a certain degree to ... Views: 303
The default standpoint for almost the entire human race is that of the ego. There are tribal societies that try to reduce the predominance of the ego through a collective mindset, but even in such societies, pride, rivalry for dominance, and other forms of ego persist. In the West, a premium is ... Views: 303