Daily Archives: January 17, 2017

Problem Solving

What techniques do we use to solve problems? A look at brainstorming, experimentation, introspection and simulation, with evaluations of each method. Problem solving is part of a process that includes finding problems and forming and shaping them. It is a … Continue reading

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Living in the Now Self Hypnosis MP3 Stephen Armstrong DHP; Faith Waude DHP Acc. Hyp.

Length: 31:15 Download: 30MB   Enjoy living in the Now with this professionally-recorded hypnosis MP3 download from Hypnotic World. In this day and age, living in the now is almost impossible. No sooner are you finished with one task, than … Continue reading

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What is stress?

Stress (roughly the opposite of relaxation) is a medical term for a wide range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome, first described in 1936 by Hans Selye … Continue reading

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Stress: Fight or Flight Response

How the Fight-or-Flight response explains stress. What is the fight or flight response? The flight or fight response, also called the “acute stress response” was first described by Walter Cannon in the 1920s as a theory that animals react to … Continue reading

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10 Causes of Stress (and How to Avoid Them)

10 Causes of Stress (and How to Avoid Them) Everyone encounters stressful situations on an almost daily basis, from minor pressures that we hardly notice, to occasional traumatic situations which can cause ongoing stress. Many of us do not realise … Continue reading

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Personality Type Test

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorised that our personality development is based on childhood events and labelled personality types such as analy retentive and oral. Discover your Freudian personality type with this test.   https://www.psychologistworld.com/influence_personality/test1.php

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Stages of Sleep

Sleep is the process in which humans and other animals periodically rest, with greater or lesser degrees of unconsciousness and decreased responsiveness to the surrounding world. Sleep occurs cyclically, roughly every 24 hours even though the average human inner body … Continue reading

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Effects of Sleep Deprivation

If you believe the evolutionary theory of sleep, you might be wondering why humans, not just non-human animals, still do it. There are famous examples of people being able to live on just a fraction of the sleep the rest … Continue reading

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Dreams Dictionary: Meanings of Dreams

Find out what your dreams mean. Psychologist World’s Dream Dictionary has over a thousand entries on kinds of dream. A Abandon, Abbey, Abbess, Abbot, Abdomen, Abhor, Abject, Abode, Abortion, Above, Abroad, Absalom, Absence, Abscess, Absinthe, Abundance, Abuse, Abyss, Academy, Accepted, … Continue reading

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