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When was the last time you did something that harmed your well-being? Considering that you’re reading a blog post about self-sabotage, I bet it wasn’t so long ago. We all make bad decisions from time to time, but self-sabotage goes a little further than that. Self-sabotaging means engaging in activities that don’t allow you 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Cognitive dissonance is a term used to describe the feelings that arise when someone holds contradictory beliefs. It is also known as an internal conflict that people need to solve, in order to be able to make further decisions. Inconsistent thoughts lead to disharmony and cause people a lot of tension, but if properly managed, …