Dreaming is a vital function for keeping us sane and alive, see: Why do we dream? but if we dream too much we lose motivation and become depressed You and I also need the slow wave sleep which occurs between dreams to rejuvenate and re-energize the mind and body. This, between dream deep sleep also [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Someone told me the other day about someone they’d heard about who had attempted to dry their pet poodle by putting it in the micro-wave oven with inevitably messy and tragic results. We marvel at the stupidity of a person who would do this as we pity the poor canine who suffered such an undignified [...]
The archetypal man (or woman) who chases, seduces and even captivates their romantic ‘prey’ then rapidly loses interest may mirror the entrepreneur for whom chasing wealth is more satisfying than actually acquiring it. In a recent article about brain cells, Joshua Freedman a U.C.L.A. neuroscientist, noted that a monkey feels maximal reward not when he [...]
Who do you think about and what affect does this thinking have on the way you perceive your self. It seems that we rate ourselves differently depending on who we have just been thinking about. The researchers here say that people could benefit from being more aware of the influences the mere thought of others [...]
The power of expectation is enormous. What we expect embeds deep within our subconscious. Using hypnosis is a way of amplifying unconscious expectation. And placebo is a well documented way of tapping into our conscious and unconscious expectation (you consciously expect the pain to lift and your unconscious mind puts the pain relieving mechanism to [...]
How much do you really laugh? The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. Developing and maintaining a sense of humour helps prevent and lift clinical depression because: laughing produces ‘feel good chemicals’ and even subdues physical pain, humour helps us reframe events and ‘get outside them’ rather [...]
A large part of grief whether for an ex partner or from the death of someone close is the negative association that places, times of year or even certain songs can have. It feels right to try to avoid these stimuli in order to avoid feeling bad but actually repeated exposure in the right way [...]
This article: decline in teen smoking hits a wall talks about the need to ‘get the message out there’ and so forth but exactly what is the message that smokers haven’t heard. I really don’t think that people who smoke haven’t heard the startlingly new information that smoking causes cancers, heart disease, impotence, infertility, depression, [...]
Happy people are more likely to get married and stay married, they are more likely to earn more and live longer and have more friends (although if people are too happy they may be less successful than the their moderately happy counterparts). But what makes you, me, us happy? How happy are you right now? [...]
This footage shows a woman left to die on a hospital ward even though she was seen by security guards and a nurse and doctor who ignored the fact that she was sprawled on the floor until it was too late. People have been fired and questions are being asked of the hospital and quite [...]
