Category: Meditation and Psychology
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Can Online Therapy Be Truly Effective? Pros and Cons
Let’s take a close look at online therapy, a rather new form of psychological support. First of all, online therapy is not considered psychotherapy. Also, it will never replace traditional face-to-face therapy. In a few words, it comes down to chatting with your doctor. But is this type of therapy effective or not? In this…
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Can Light Therapy Really Help in Depression?
It distorts one’s thoughts, makes it difficult to care for others, and causes constant irritability. Also, it can manifest itself in the form of anxiety, can cause one to be easy to upset. Furthermore, it may be accompanied by chronic pain. This is depression. And it can be treated with light therapy. But let’s read…
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The Psychological Implications of Speech Therapy for Adults
Speech impairment can be problematic for people of any age. While most speech difficulties manifest and resolve during childhood, they can continue through adulthood, and some can even manifest later in life due to injury, illness, or stroke. Whatever the origin or type of speech disorder an individual may have, speech therapy for adults can…
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The Meaning Behind Recurring Dreams: Why Do Dreams Keep Coming Back?
You are running on an empty street and you know someone is after you, though you can’t quite make out who this person is. Your heart is racing and every nerve in your body is tense with anticipation. You know you are seconds away from someone tapping you on the shoulder. And then you wake…
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Dreaming into the Darkness, Spiritual and Psychological Use of Dreams
Dreams “wake us up” to something within. They wake us up to a larger capacity for feeling and understanding our life and relationships. Gradually, we learn the language, customs and nature of dreams and dreaming. This is a way of approaching the great mystery of our inner life and how to evolve. “It’s just a…
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Histrionic Personality Disorder in Popular Media – Scarlett O’Hara
Histrionic personality disorder has been romanticized and unrealistically portrayed in the media for far too long. What should be seen as a pattern of (many times) unhealthy inner experiences and behaviors is instead portrayed as exciting, motivating, and empowering. But the truth is, histrionic disorder leads to distress and can affect one’s social and professional…
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Gender Stereotypes and the Contradiction in the Minds of Trump Voters
Gender stereotypes are older than human civilization itself, and they don’t seem to see an end soon. But politics was among the few fields that seemed to be free of such ideas. No presidential candidate in the last decades dared to address gender stereotyping in the way Donald Trump boldly did. A surefire way to commit…
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Arya Stark and Game of Thrones; The Father/Daughter Relationship;
Arya Stark is a character with a warm heart and a calculated revenge. She symbolizes for us an emotional tension that all people experience in varying degrees. It is the tension between anger and longing. We can have longing for love, security, comfort, peace, or enlightenment. Arya longs for her father and all that encompasses.…
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The Trump Phenomenon and the Suggestibility of his Followers
Psychologically, the more unconscious a person is the more suggestible they are. This means the less aware, the less mindful, the less conscious a person, the easier it is to sell them anything, especially a lie or a partial truth. We are all vulnerable to this phenomena, some more, some less. The Trump phenomenon is…
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The Crawley Sisters and Downton Abbey as a Cultural Dream
We can think about Downton Abbey as a cultural dream because it points to what is still unconscious for individuals, families and the larger cultural family. A dream brings attention to that which is still out of balance. For many Downton Abby by PBS, not only depicts an historical time and place,1912-1923 England, but a…










