I want to take a simplistic, layman's view of our brains.
Our brains are complex structures within which three main components may be identified - the reptilian brain; the emotional brain and the logical/rational brain.
When any one of...
Conspiracy Theorists Websites; Boo! (21 Apr 2006)
As you surf the Internet be careful what you read. Some information out there such as; Conspiracy Theorists Websites are often filled with some pretty tall tales. They sure will talk a good game and they all claim to have secrets to tell you. Gene...
Blended Realities of the Mind (16 Dec 2005)
Do you have re-occurring dreams? Do you ever wonder if you have these enough that you might start blending them with your reality? Have you ever found yourself having dreams that seemed so real that they seemed as an actual experience? What if the...
Tall People Have an Advantage in Life (05 Nov 2005)
Many people do not believe that your height has anything to do with your success in life, yet you should realize that it indeed does. Studies have shown this time and time again. Human height in the present period does have great advantages as to ...
A Stolen Smile: How To Interpret Dreams of Losing Your Teeth (21 Feb 2006)
The soul thinks in images.
— Aristotle
A welcome sigh of relief usually accompanies the realization that it was "just a dream" about our teeth falling out. We dismiss it as yet another disturbing image from that often in...
Did Carl Jung Underestimate the Significance of This Transformative Dream? (04 Mar 2006)
No prisons are more confining than the ones of which we are unaware. - Shakespeare, The Tempest
In 1913, a frustrated thirty-eight-year-old Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, broke with Freud, who had been an important mentor for ...
Expressing Your Hate Is Sometimes Useful (13 Feb 2006)
Sometimes hate may be very useful. Yes, I mean it. When you pull off your negative emotions on something absolutely unconnected with your family or friends, it saves them from your rage.
It is bad when you hate people. However, you may hate ...
Memory Leaks: Our Minds (23 Apr 2006)
Anybody who has spent a lot of time studying computers knows that computers suffer from memory leaks. Lost information and *breaks* seem to be the norm with today's technology. Could we be experiencing the same problem--what about our memories? Co...
Memory and Learning - Just How Does it All Work? (17 Nov 2005)
If all the data received by our senses were stored in our memory, we would soon be overwhelmed. The subconscious sorts through the input and retains only a fraction for permanent memory storage. Every second, the eyes absorb ten million bits of in...
Read This Article if You Have Above Average Looks (28 Nov 2005)
Do you have above average looks? Did you know in psychology studies that far more than 50% when asked in private surveys; say that they have above average looks. This is a very telling observation both from a psychological standpoint and also from...
MetaPrograms Accessing Cues (16 Jan 2006)
The credit for inspiring me and giving the idea to work on this goes to Eric Robbie - in July 2005 in Mexico on Master Prac course he only mentioned Meta Programs Accessing Cues and I thought - WOW. It was sort of the feeling psychologists get whe...
How Emotions and Feelings Shape Learning (14 May 2006)
Body, thought, and emotion are intimately blended through complex nerve networks, and function in concert to shape our awareness. Emotions interpret, arrange, direct, and summarize information received through the five senses. They color our perce...
Eye Tricks (11 Nov 2005)
Eye tricks? What can you do with your eyes? More on that in a moment. First, let's look at what you can tell by watching a persons eyes.
By watching what they are watching, you can learn a lot about people. What kind of women does a man look...
How to Stop Nightmares (21 Apr 2006)
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Some of the best persuasion techniques have been developed from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) methods. For example, if you hear a person saying, "I see," a few times, they are probably processing information visually, according to NLP. To inf...
Precognition (08 Aug 2005)
Intuition can be defined as a holistic filtering of information gathered by the other senses. In previous articles I have referred to the thought mechanisms of the primordial mind as it relates to the intuitive sensing process. Intuition is direct...
NLP in Management, Psychotherapy, and Counselling (02 Aug 2005)
NLP has been called the study of subjective experience. Its central contention is that people operate from and respond to their "construction" of their experiences rather than from a single external "reality". They have their own unique models or ...
Broken Mirror May Cause Autism (26 Aug 2005)
When observing and imitating emotions, children with autism display virtually no activity in a key part of the brain's mirror neuron system, according to new imaging research published in Nature Neuroscience.
The human brain has a matching s...
Dreaming (10 Mar 2006)
It will be several hours until the alarm buzzes, but suddenly a man bolts up to a near-sitting position in bed. The room is peaceful, yet he's terrified, and can't immediately reason why. Then, after convincing himself that all's calm and he's s...
FAQs on Non-Verbal Communication/Body Language (11 Mar 2006)
A recent article in Discover magazine on how we recognize faces said that we have such powerful brain "circuitry" for facial expressions that we insist on seeing faces where there are none - in clouds or in the wallpaper pattern. Non-verbal commun...
