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How stress affects your being
Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain.
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How to make stress your friend
Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case.
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It’s a conspiracy!?
“The problem with conspiracy theories is they’re not just telling you a story, they’re telling you a really good story. There’s a hidden cabal behind everything that’s happening, there’s a secret pattern that you just have to be smart enough to detect.”
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Finding balance through self-hypnosis
Worth sticking with this quite academic explanation of virtually all aspects of how the mind works, and then how to find balance and ‘steer’ our own minds.
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Finding your self and living excellently
Paul McKenna is a behavioural scientist and author, with the goal of helping people become the best version of themselves. Drawing from his experiences working with people from all walks of life, Paul explains the power of rewiring the mind and the transformative effects of visualisation and hypnosis.
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What is a meaningful life
In one of the longest-running and most comprehensive studies of human happiness, Harvard tracked 724 teenagers through every stage of their adult lives since 1938. Some of them are still alive today and the findings are clear: lasting happiness isn’t about wealth or fame—it’s about something much deeper.
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What is Emotional Awareness?
“Self-awareness, it’s the least visible part of emotional intelligence, but we find in our research that people low in self-awareness are unable to develop strengths very well in other parts of emotional intelligence.”
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What is Consciousness?
Is consciousness an illusion? 5 experts explain Published on YouTube January 2024 – Big Think 7.45M subscribers “If science aims to describe everything, how can it not describe the simple fact of our existence?” On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele speaks with the scientists, mathematicians, and spiritual leaders trying to do just that: This video…
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Be careful what you wish for
Read transcript We can’t know what our future selves wants 4,303,383 views | Shankar Vedantam | TED • April 2022 “You are constantly becoming a new person,” says journalist Shankar Vedantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the “illusion of continuity” — the belief…
