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Feb 18, 2022 · Key points. Evidence in both psychology and behavioral economics demonstrates that we are not the Mr. Spock-like thinkers and actors that we think we are. We are unaware of our unconscious mind,...
- Where The Conflict Between Perception and Reality Lies in The Brain
- The Stories Our Brain Tells Are Influenced by Life Experience
- Neuroscience Is Deeply Humbling
My colleague Sigal Samuel recently explored the neuroscience of meditation(link is external). During her reporting, she found good evidence that a regular meditation practice is associated with increased compassion. That evidence, she writes, “feel[s] like a challenge, even a dare. If it takes such a small amount of time and effort to get better at...
The brain tells us a story about the motion of objects. But that’s not the only story it tells. It also tells us stories about more complicated aspects of our visual world, like color. For some meta-insight, look at the illusion below from Japanese psychologist and artist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. You can observe your own brain, in real time, change its gu...
I don’t want people to read this and think we can’t believe our eyes, or we can’t incorporate evidence into our thinking. We can seek out verified sources of information. We can turn to expertise and also earnestly question it. (Don’t let people gaslight you, either — another phenomenon that preys on the brain’s tendency to generate illusory though...
Oct 22, 2018 · Our minds become a battlefield as we wrestle with our thinking. Often, we don’t take hold of our thoughts. Instead, we allow them to run wild causing overwhelm. Because of our mental strongholds, battles are won or lost in our minds before we make a single move.
We are instructed to have “the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16, ESV), but our day-to-day mental “home base” is often much more fearful, dark, and chaotic than the mind of Jesus. So how do we arrive there and walk in the victory of the mind purchased for us? The Battle Plan.
Mar 25, 2024 · Learn a new secret weapon in the fight to not let fear, anxiety, or worry take over your brain. The "Universal Rule" test helps you sort realistic fears from false alarms. Learn how.
Sep 27, 2020 · What we control, and where we really start to create our reality, is in how we perceive/interpret/think about the events in our life that generate our feelings about those events, and how we...
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Jun 24, 2023 · The Power of Fear: Fear has a tremendous hold over us due to its ability to trigger a cascade of negative thoughts and emotions. It amplifies our insecurities, fuels self-doubt, and...
