Monthly Archives: January 2017

Study: Unhappy Music Creates ‘Pleasant’ Emotions

Listening to sad music can create ‘pleasant’ emotions, according to a recent study. Listening to melancholic music “induces pleasant emotion”, according to a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Conventional wisdom would hold that listening to a … Continue reading →

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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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