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Relationship

Understanding and Overcoming Fear of Intimacy

Fear of intimacy is a subconscious fear of proximity that regularly disrupts people’s intimate relationships. This fear of physical and/or emotional intimacy frequently manifests in people’s closest and most meaningful relationships. While we may be conscious of our apprehension and

Positive Self Help

‘Attaining the Unattainable: The Psychology Behind The Romantic Chase

Have you ever found yourself head over heels for someone? Where the only thing that seemed to matter was getting their attention and winning them over. The process of attainment that sent an exhilarating rush down your spine, but lost

Self Help

Forgiveness – The Golden Virtue 

Great beings in the past have said that forgiveness is not for someone else but rather for yourself. Harboring anger and hurt is like holding a piece of charcoal in your own hand and expecting the other person to burn.

Awareness Social

Noise: A disturbing movie about Displaced Anger

Your anger will pass. But your mean words can scar a person for life. Sandhya Ram Mahindra’s short movie Noise foregrounds the ill effects of displaced aggression and illustrates how anger pollutes the emotional environment. A poignant, disturbing movie portraying

Positive Self Help

Gratitude: A Key to Happiness

Gratitude has been understood from multiple perspectives. According to the state view, gratitude can be defined as the state of thankfulness for all. That is important to an individual. From the trait perspective, it can be understood as the disposition

Awareness

Frozen No More: Conquer Mood Freezing, Find Peace

The phrase “mood freezing” refers to an experiment conducted in 1984 using “mood-freezing pills.” To fix the respondents’ current moods, the researchers in the study purposely irritated the participants and gave them placebos, or tablets that freeze emotions. The respondents’

Awareness

Neuro-aesthetics: The Science of Beauty and The Brain

Fundamentally, Neuro-aesthetics is an approach to aesthetics that draws on neurology as a technique of inquiry, in contrast to other approaches that have relied on psychological or philosophical models. Accordingly, Neuro-aesthetics investigates the neural mechanisms underlying aesthetic behavior. The idea

Therapy

Polyvagal Theory: A Breakdown of the Autonomic Nervous System and Social Behavior

The Polyvagal Theory, created by Dr. Stephen Porges, distinguishes 3 stages of evolution within the development of the mammalian autonomic nervous system. The theory gives a framework for understanding how our autonomic nervous system, impacts our psychological and behavioral experiences,

Social Technology

Media Psychology: Influence of Media on Behavior and Perception

Media psychology is a growing field of psychology, which studies the impact of media and technology on human behavior. We are in an age where every age group is dependent on some type of media and is consuming media in

Awareness

10 Strategies to Deal with Hopelessness

It is normal to feel as there is no hope and that things will never get better if you have had a significant loss, an intense life transition, or if you are suffering from a mental Health issue like depression.