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Why a Time Machine Wouldn't Fix Your Mistakes

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꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂   Part of the pain of growing older is that we can start to see how much, at certain points, we misunderstood ourselves, what the costs of missing self-knowledge were and how beautiful it could be if we could just build ourselves a time machine and go back and correct all our mistakes.

In Praise of Introspective People

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  ꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂ However healthy it often is to try to fit in and assume we must just be like everyone else, there are also benefits in sometimes accepting that we might in the end not be and this needn't be a cause of concern or shame.

How to Stop People Pleasing and Be Happy

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Why People Get Mentally Unwell

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  ꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂ More:    How to Get Your Parents Out of Your Head 12 Questions to Evaluate your Parents How to Get Your Parents Out of Your Head thinking of the person who repeatedly fails her exams despite being very intelligent and driven what could be the benefit of an illness?  As awful as self-sabotage, if we examine this person's life, we might find the presence of a hugely competitive and jealous mother, who could be extremely displeased by her daughter's success and might respond by cutting off her love and becoming highly aggressive, the daughter hence chooses the illness of self-sabotage over the yet more awful realization that her mother was damaged and damaging and never loved her properly.  It can feel better to be ill than realize it. One was always unloved behind a great many psychological illnesses. We uncover benefits if we can put it that way. Failing can be a protection against being envied and worrying about our appear...

How to Get Your Parents Out of Your Head

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  More:    One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood 12 Questions to Evaluate your Parents How to Get Your Parents Out of Your Head ꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂ One of the most difficult things about being human is how easily influenced we are by our childhoods and more particularly our parents. one of the most difficult things about The human mind between the ages of 1 and 10 is dauntingly receptive, infinitely attuned to its environment. A somewhat cold, forbidding, father or an erratic mother really may be all that are required to breed an elevated degree of anxiety or self-hatred that colors the next eight decades.  And yet this kind of parental imprinting is very hard to spot and therefore overcome. Most of us would be highly surprised to think that a parent or two might be living inside our heads.  The way we think seems to us to be the result of our own. Will we seldom come across any voices or attitudes that feel actively foreign or e...

Charles Darwin - the Descent of Man

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  More:    One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood 12 Questions to Evaluate your Parents ꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂ The Incredible Promise of Psychedelic Therapy It's completely understandable that we're often maddened by what might be called normal humanity, the way in which emotions so regularly triumph over careful reasoning, the power of group loyalty, even when the group doesn't seem to deserve much devotion, the vast mechanisms of status seeking that drive. completely understandable that So much excess consumption, widespread selfishness and indifference to the greater needs of distant others, and we can find ourselves in the privacy of our heads or in the occasional late night, outburst railing against the fools and idiots who so unfortunately seem to occupy.  So many of the prominent places of power, wealth and influence in our world in such moods, the 19th century naturalist, charles darwin, has much to say to us. ...

The Incredible Promise of Psychedelic Therapy

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More:    One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood 12 Questions to Evaluate your Parents ꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂ There is a form of therapy which is right now in most countries of the world illegal, but which stands to become a dominant way of doing therapy over the coming years and may be the principal route by which many people will heal from their traumas. The reason why psychedelic therapy is likely to prove so important is that it has the power to overcome the central impediment to successful therapy right now.  Fundamental thesis of psychotherapy is that we grow ill because there are things inside our minds that we have not been able to confront, feel and think about and which reside in the unconscious from where they create vicious disturbances. Symptoms neuroses hysteria for our conscious selves classically, the task of therapy has been to provide a safe and welcoming forum, in which a patient can feel relaxed enough to let th...

One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood

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꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂  the most fundamental idea at the heart of modern  Psychotherapy is that in order to heal ourselves from our neuroses in the present we've got  to understand what went on in our childhoods though this thesis makes impeccable theoretical  sense there's one enormous problem with it Amnesia simply put almost no adult remembers a single  thing that happened to them before they were three years old countless days and nights a succession  of complicated moods Sensations and events will have vanished Into Thin Air like a library of  precious books that sent up in smoke or dumped unceremoniously into the sea furthermore most of  us remember very little of what went on before we were seven this may seem like an obvious point but  it has momentous implications a period that we've identified as extremely important is also going to  be entirely nebulous another basic fact of every childhood is that even though the pas...

12 Questions to Evaluate your Parents

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  Some people assume that you can't say what a good or indeed a bad parent is. But we don't agree so we've designed a checklist of what we think makes up a good parent, firstly and most obviously a good parent adores, their child they're, simply overjoyed. That they exist and don't mind telling the offspring that fact in direct and indirect ways at small and large moments pretty much every day there is no risk of spoiling anyone like this spoiled people are those who were denied love, not those who were regularly bathed in its calming waters, secondly, the good parent is attuned to their child. secondly, a good parent iattentattention toisten very closely indeed to what the small person is trying to say this means getting down on their knees and calmly paying attention to certain messages that may sometimes sound extremely weird or frustrating. Maybe the child is saying that they are very sad, even though it's their birthday and the parent has gone into enormous...

Ancient Rome's Answer to Social Shame

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꧁✤꙳πŸ†πŸ…΄πŸ…»πŸ…°πŸ†ƒπŸ…΄πŸ…³ πŸ…ΏπŸ…ΎπŸ†‚πŸ†ƒπŸ†‚꙳✤꧂  It is natural for most of us to spend time worrying about our reputation what others think of us, whether we're deemed good or bad by the community. This can quickly become a painful topic and our thoughts can descend into bonfires of worry. What, if we're accused of something, what if we're, ostracized and mocked what, if we become a pariah, a useful way out of the panic, was suggested many centuries ago by the stoic thinkers of ancient greece and rome. They suggested that we divide the topic of reputation into two parts, on the one hand who we are and what we think of ourselves and, on the other, what other people may decide to declare or say about us stoics reminded us of an important detail . say about us We can never be certain of the second part of the equation. We cannot control the world beyond a certain point. There is always the possibility that someone vengeful mean or disturbed is going to say something about us and try to damage...