Honesty is often emphasized as a foundational element in building and maintaining healthy relationships. However, finding the right balance between brutal honesty and loving honesty can be a delicate task. Brutal honesty can lead to misunderstandings and hurt feelings, but sugarcoating can lead to a lack of relationship authenticity. This article explores the fine line…
Unveiling Our Mental Evolution: The Stages of Human Development in Psychology
The exploration of human development has always fascinated researchers and scholars in the complex and ever-evolving field of psychology. By understanding the stages of development, we can uncover the influences that shape our personalities, the critical milestones that mark our growth, and the factors that contribute to our mental well-being. Learn about the different stages…
The Compound Effect: How Small Habits Can Create Big Changes in Your Life
The compound effect is the principle that when we consistently engage in small actions or habits, they compound over time to produce remarkable results. Contrary to popular opinion, lasting change and success are rarely an overnight phenomenon. Instead, the small, seemingly insignificant habits we cultivate can create significant and lasting transformations over time. Learn more…
From Irritation to Explosion: Exploring the Stages of Anger and Its Impact on Relationships
Anger is a powerful emotion that can lead to conflicts in relationships. It often begins with a subtle feeling of irritation and gradually escalates to extreme and chronic levels of rage. An awareness of the triggers, the different stages of anger, and what each one looks like is crucial in gaining a deeper understanding of…
Competition With Yourself vs. Others: How to Find the Right Balance
Competition exists in most areas of life. You’ll encounter it in any situation with limited opportunities, whether in money, career, education, prestige, or relationships. But can the drive to outperform others harm our growth and impact? Some people believe that we should strive to compete with ourselves more than we do with others. However, we…
Zanshin: How it Can Help You Be More Focused and Conquer Scattered Thinking
In today’s information-overloaded world and always-on, staying focused throughout the day can be hard. Yet, we need our minds to be still, focused, and alert to achieve anything lasting. Many Eastern cultures that practice martial arts teach and embrace this way of being, including the Japanese, who call it “Zanshin,” which means “the mind with…
Why Spending Time Alone Makes You a Better Friend and Partner
Many people find being alone hard to endure, especially for extended periods. It can make people feel lonely and unloved. But there are many benefits from spending time alone when done in moderation and with intention. With these tips, you’ll learn how to schedule enough alone time to regroup and replenish so that you can…
Right Speech: Mastering the Art of Communication with Empathy (and why it matters)
With the rise of the internet and social media, people have become less empathic in how they communicate. Rudeness and deceptive language are common both in the online and offline world. One way to overcome this is to have a code of ethics that can keep us in check. The Buddhist teachings of Right Speech…
Hero Worship: The Problem with Putting People on Pedestals
Hero worship is “a feeling of extreme admiration for someone, imagining that they have qualities or abilities that are better than anyone else’s.” We tend to elevate people to this level because they are brilliant, beautiful, glamorous, or have a quality or talent that we value deeply. Hero worship can negatively impact all aspects of…
How Making Emotional Decisions Impact Our Outcomes (and how to do it right)
When faced with big decisions, some prefer to make a detailed list of pros and cons, while others check in with their feelings and prefer making emotional decisions. But there’s another aspect we fail to consider: how we process what we know. Decision-making is conventionally believed to be a logic-driven process. However, emotions drive most…