Psychology Articles

How a man used hypnosis to get free meals! Unbelievable!!

Language can be used in the most helpful and dangerous ways. Language can induce joy or depression. That is the power of hypnotic language patterns.

If you've ever been around someone who is persistently miserable you'll find that they have a working strategy for making their experience unpleasant for themselves. This article will give a few explanations why they use a strategy that makes them miserable, how that process works, and if this describes you, why you might want to change. It will also describe what you'll have to sacrifice if you no longer want to be miserable.

How do you determine if you're under mind control? It's an interesting question that you can pass around at a party or among friends.

The psychologist, Carl Jung, described hidden part of our psyche as "the shadow". It's the part that sometimes frightens us with the things we don't know, or don't want to know about ourselves.

How does a hyper paranoid maniac like JK Ellis create a cult like following and still manage to protect himself from over-exposure?

I had an interesting experience recently in being "psychic" and perhaps it can add to your influencial power. First, let me say that whenever I do a "psychic" experiment I'm always ready to be wrong, and it happens at times. What I've found is that people will completely forget the times you missed in a reading and over emphasize the times you got a "hit". It's just one of the well known facts of psychic cold reading.

Since I recovered from panic disorder and agoraphobia, people often ask me what the major turning point in my recovery was. There were many turning points, but if I had to choose just one, I would pick the night I made a deal with God in one of my darkest hours of fear. That’s because it changed the orientation of my life.

The more optimistic you are the greater your chances of remaining vibrantly healthy, beating disease, living longer, being more successful at work, having a better marriage, and becoming far more financially secure.

A whole new school of psychiatry has grown up around the development of positive thinking. The key is intercepting negative thoughts. Surprisingly, no matter how positive we think we are, many of us have internal, mostly negative chatter that ties up the cerebral circuits all day long. Much of this chatter is actually pretty idiotic if you stop and listen to it.