The Beauty of Being Average
We people in this contemporary world run towards being extraordinary, and perfect and strive to be the best. We are happy if the child gets 100 out of 100, even if they score 99, we look into the missing pieces.
Awareness
Awareness
EcoPsychology: Nature as a Co-Therapist
Ecopsychology combines the human element from psychology, with the study of how biological systems work together from ecology. A more in depth explanation of ecopsychology is that it seeks to help humans experience themselves as an integral part of nature
Awareness
Eudaimonic vs Hedonic Well-Being
The lifestyle of well-being is considered a multifaceted concept that has been thoroughly studied for centuries and decades by philosophers, psychologists as well as numerous neurologists. Two of the most interesting and fascinating concepts altogether were hedonic well-being and eudaimonic
Research
The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Many researches has been done to find out the effect of childhood trauma on emotional responsiveness towards negative stimuli or stressor, as a result we all know that childhood adverse experience influences how we react to the negative events. Interestingly, a new
Awareness
Understanding Counter-Empathy: The Dark Side of Emotional Awareness
As social creatures, we have to express and share our emotions with others with the aim of building connections and bonding. Understanding others’ emotions comes with our own emotional awareness, and with that, we resonate and empathize with others’ different
Self Help
Beyond the Stressor: The Science of Emotion-Focused Coping
Emotion-focused coping refers to the technique of managing affective distress instead of focusing on the cause of the stress. Emotion-focused coping is especially useful where there is no possible way to change the stressor, including illness or loss. Such people try
Life Style
Can Smiling Trick Your Brain into Feeling Happier?
How long has it been since you last smiled? You might want to think about making that frown go away. It turns out that smiling is quite beneficial to your health in addition to being a method to express happiness.
Education
The 2 Minute Rule to beat Procrastination
Procrastination, at its core, is the habit of delaying or putting off tasks, often until the last minute or even past their deadline. All of us would have, at some point, postponed things just because of our small pleasure or being
Social
Why Do We Like to Compare Our Lives With Others (And How Can We Stop)
Ever scrolled through Instagram and wondered, “Wow, she’s got the perfect life— having the perfect vacation in Greece, radiant skin, and cool friends – while here I am just sitting in my worn-out pajamas, slurping instant noodles”? Or maybe you’ve
Social
The Impact of Microexpressions on Social Perception
Consider the example of a person entering a room of strangers and feeling an inexplicable bond with one of them due to a fleeting smile at that person or consider when one of your friends is saying how happy they