Discover the fascinating depths of your mind
Have you ever got home from work and realised that you don’t remember how you got there? We do more things with our brains on autopilot mode than we believe. Imagine having to be focused each time you get dressed, make dinner or wash the dishes. You would get exhausted very quickly and have no …
During your existence you’ve probably had the chance to meet a few people who are incredibly ignorant about themselves. They are clueless about their actions, thoughts and feelings. Only from several interactions with them you can tell that they have no idea what self observation is. The surprising part is that they usually tend to …
Everything around you exists due to a process that takes place in your mind – attention. You don’t even realize how important it is in your life, until you start, obviously, paying attention to it. The things you are paying attention to are the things you will remember in the future and the things that …
Stressful and unpleasant events can happen anytime to anyone, the only thing in your power is the way you cope with them. Whether you’ve had a tough day at work or you’ve been struggling with uncomfortable feelings, having healthy coping skills can help you adapt to changes and restore your emotional well-being. What is a …
The world we live in forces us to process an enormous quantity of information in order to succeed. Social media, relationships and day to day tasks may be sometimes too much for us to handle. Information overload is characterized by the feeling of overwhelming and the incapacity to utilize the information properly. This problem occurs …
You were a kid, an adolescent and maybe today you’re already an adult. Most probably the way you perceive the world changed over time and many of the things you thought define you changed as well. But you still perceive yourself as… yourself. How do you keep feeling as being yourself if you’re constantly changing …
Most of our fears, anxieties and phobias are conditioned responses, which means we are not born being afraid of spiders or having public speaking anxiety. Over time, we learn to associate certain objects or situations with feelings of anxiety and it is usually a result of traumas or negative experiences. Naturally, fears are meant to …
At some point of our lives, we will experience unpleasant feelings about ourselves that will make us doubt our worth. These feelings could emerge from a professional failure, the inability to complete a certain task and so on. But do these kind of experiences necessarily leave us with an inferiority complex? No. Inferiority feelings are …
Have you ever wondered why you fell in love with that one specific person? Is it the kindness you see in them, the way they make you laugh or common interests? People prefer not to ruin the romantics of it and choose to see attraction as being driven by some magical forces. But let’s take …
You wake up in the morning and remember the strange dream you had at night. The first thing you ask yourself is whether it has a meaning or not. Sigmund Freud proposed a theory that says the manifest content of a dream serves to disguise its actual meaning, so it is no surprise you can’t …
