Do you sometimes struggle to get things done in time? Do you feel overwhelmed and like you don’t have enough time to do it all? In this blog, I present a powerful technique to up your time management game.
The Student Success Series features Student Ambassadors from the Canadian Positive Psychology Association. They share what strengths, mindsets, and strategies helped them succeed as students.
This blog covers the science of self-control: what it is, how to train it, what to do when you’re out of it, as well as its critical role in the expression of prejudice and discriminatory behaviours.
Evidence suggests hypnosis can improve a great number of psychotherapeutic and medical interventions, especially when used as an adjunct, but it can also induce false memories.
The New Age Movement is “a liberation movement, seeking to free and to empower the individual’s private experience of spiritual realities — freedom from religious dogma and authority, and empowerment in the face of mainstream intellectual culture”.
Is there such a thing as the ideal personality? Evidence suggests that people that are extraverted, open, agreeable, conscientious, and emotionally stable seem to experience the most positive outcomes.
The concept of The Secret, “you attract what you think about”, powerfully appeals to mass audiences, perhaps because it has some real, though indirect, benefits on motivation and goal attainment. But it also comes with major drawbacks.
By failing to recognize the spiritual side of yoga, we really miss a big piece of the puzzle that could contribute to our understanding of its benefits. We see the more apparent (physical) causes and miss the finer, subtler psycho-spiritual causes.
After months of effort, I achieved what would be the beginning of all my success: mastering my mind. Every time a negative thought appeared, I replaced it with a positive one.