There was a time when I believed that the depth of a feeling revealed the truth of it. If love struck with enough force, if longing rearranged the inner weather, if a face returned again and again in silence, if the heart suffered with a devotion it could not explain,…
Tag: Psychology
Psychology blogs on the scientific study of the human mind, human personalities and temperaments, and individual and collective behavious.
Memoir & Life 
The Company We Keep Becomes the Life We Live
There are few mirrors as honest as friendship. Not the mirror of glass, which gives back only the surface. Not the mirror of reputation, which trembles with gossip and misunderstanding. Not even the mirror of our own thoughts, which can flatter, excuse, condemn, or deceive us depending on the hour….
Philosophy & Spirituality 
The Difference Between an Insult and a Public Self-Own
There is a great difference between an insult and a performance of intelligence. Most people do not know this. They mistake volume for force, vulgarity for courage, and repetition for victory. They hurl words the way children throw mud, with great enthusiasm and no architecture. The result is rarely devastating….
Memoir & Life 
When the Ordinary Turns Strange: Childhood Fear and the Uncanny
There are children for whom the world never arrives as a safe and given thing. It arrives already bent. Not visibly, perhaps. The house still has walls. The table is still set for dinner. Shoes wait by the door. Grown voices rise and fall in the next room. Morning comes….
Memoir & Life 
51 Hard Truths No One Tells You About Adult Life
In older ages, life forced people into adulthood early. War did it. Hunger did it. Labor did it. Loss did it. Responsibility did it. The world gave fewer illusions and demanded more quickly. Modern adulthood is stranger. You can legally drive, vote, drink, borrow money, move away, get hired, get…
Memoir & Life 
Transformative Change Through Organic Inquiry
There are times in our lives when we all feel we’re on the top. But, there are also times when we slip down unknowingly. They are the high and low points of our life. Sometimes, I wonder why we need to experience these low points, when in fact; we know…
Memoir & Life 
A Day Without My Phone: A Transformative Experience
Today, I forgot to take my cell phone in the morning. And what happened is nothing short of a transformative experience. I woke up, got fresh, boiled water, made coffee with organic coconut oil, ate a banana and left for the work. Usually, my fiance and I drive to work…
Memoir & Life 
Life As A Research Project | Transpersonal Experiences In Ordinary Settings
What is the experience of being human – the one we wish to inquiry into, investigate, experiment with, or examine? We like to believe that we are living an ordinary life in an ordinary world, but are we really living an ordinary life? Examining our life under a “transpersonal lens” may be…
Memoir & Life 
12 Tips On How To Develop Self Confidence & Self Esteem
This is a common question and a good one. I am assuming the right question is “How do I develop myself in general?” Or, “How do I improve myself to be more successful in all areas of my life.?” Let me offer some perspectives on these questions as I answer…
Memoir & Life 
My Morning Ritual For Success & Super Human Productivity
We all want to be successful, live a good life, travel and experience this world our way. But, only a small percentage of people are able to achieve a level of success that truly matches our expectation and dreams. Why? The answer lies not in work ethic or luck, education,…
Memoir & Life 
Secrets to a Long and Happy Life: Live Day by Day
Today, I am going to tell you a secret. The secret was known to few people since the ancient times. In our modern age, the secret is well known to the researching scientific community. But do we really know it? My guess is you have heard of it but probably…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Do Not Feed the Trolls. Do Not Fear the Haters.
The internet gives everyone a voice. It also gives some people a costume. Not everyone who disagrees with you is your enemy. Not everyone who criticizes your work is a hater. Not everyone who leaves a harsh comment is a troll. If you want to survive online without becoming paranoid,…
