“The front is a cage in which one must nervously wait for what will happen. We are under the trajectory of the grenades and we live in the tension of …
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Personal Growth
Personal growth is a process of psychological maturation that involves learning from the mistakes we made and developing new strategies to get to know one another better and adapt better to the world. Personal development requires a high degree of awareness, the ability to look within oneself.
Positive psychology is responsible for studying the best personal growth techniques in order to achieve a state of wellbeing that will give us happiness. This branch of psychology watches over our mental health and is based not only on positive thinking but also on scientific studies that help us to have more self-esteem, to be more confident and to maximize our potential.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, when criticism and slights hurt too much
Rejection is not a tasty dish. The feelings we experience when we feel rejected are not pleasant. In fact, rejection has been shown to activate the …
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Searching for the meaning of everything can condemn you to denial and paralysis
Our brain is a maniac of order and control. After all, its mission is to keep us safe, so it has to anticipate possible threats to alert us. For that …
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Flowing is not going with the flow
In 1975 the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spoke for the first time about psychological flow. He described it as a state in which we …
How to prioritize when everything seems to have priority?
Prioritizing lightens the mind. Unravel the day. It streamlines life, so we can focus on what really matters. All that we know. And yet, when we face …
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Is your emotional buffering zone stress-proof?
Setbacks often arrive without warning. They knock on the door when we least expect them to turn our day and sometimes our world upside down. …
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Being one with the universe will increase your life satisfaction, according to science
Life satisfaction is a judgment we make about our lives. Anchored in the present, we look to the past to assess whether our current living conditions …
