The Benefits of Mindfulness
In one respect, mindfulness as a concept is nothing new. If you read the Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, and other works of classic Hindu mythology and spiritualism, you’ll find a litany of references to the ways in which yoga practices can be used to increase one’s awareness...
What Is Psychology?
Few ideological and scientific precepts have influenced modern society to a greater extent than psychology. We as human beings have always had questions about “the self,” positing them in everything from Hindu, Buddhist, and the Abrahamic Religions to Cartesian...
The Psychology of Feng Shui
One of the most important precepts of modern science is its open-mindedness and ability to take ideas from non-scientific fields and incorporate them into their approach to modern life. This is especially true of psychology and has been since the beginning with Freud...
What Is Dance Movement Therapy?
Maybe you’re ready to get your inner David Bowie on and respond to a request of “Let’s Dance” and begin “Dancing in the Street” to the tune of “Magic Dance.” Maybe you feel “I Could Have Danced All Night” as a “Dancing Queen,” or perhaps you’re just a “Dancin’ Fool.”...
When Your Marriage Needs Counseling
There is no shame in asking for help in life, especially when there’s as much at stake as there is when it comes to marriage counseling. The last thing anyone in this situation wants to see is your marriage go down the drain. You want to do everything possible to save...
Five Successful Methods Used in Marriage Therapy and Counseling
When partners enter into a marriage, they expect that their best years are in front of them. So what are they to do when they find their marriage at its worst? No one wants to think that their marriage might ever get to that point, but the fact of the matter is that...
Science Confirms Astrology!
Ask any reputable person in the sciences, and they’ll scoff in annoyance if not outright lecture you about the foolishness of astrology – and rightfully so. We have long since moved past that stage of scientific misunderstanding. For as frustrating as it is for people...
The Four Major Jungian Archetypes
“What a piece of work is a man” muses a bitterly critical Hamlet – but how and why does that “piece of work” emerge as it does? From the collective unconsciousness, according to Carl Jung. In Jung’s view, certain “archetypes” reappear in religious, mythological, and...
Music’s Power Explained
We’ve all been in a bad mood from time to time. There is any number of different reasons why you might have been down, but one constant unites us all – we all put on a song or two to cope. Maybe you put on a sassy breakup song to help you get over your ex, maybe you...
Six Facts About Transpersonal Psychology
One of the most unique aspects of psychology as a scientific discipline has been its ability to nab concepts from non-scientific fields. This goes all the way back to Freud with his Oedipus Complex, taken from Sophocles’ play and which he himself linked to...