This article explores the relationship between anxiety and fear. It explains how those two emotions work together to form part of a threat feedback loop, in order to inform not just about a particular threat, but also, its imminence.
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals tend to favour information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Stress is your built‑in alarm and energy system. It switches on when facing demands, uncertainties, or threats, so you can deal with it.
Defence strategies are often a form of maladaptive coping response, aimed at pushing a childhood self-blame onto others.
Peak-growth is a way of living where you turn everyday life into ongoing learning, self-improvement and self-mastery. Leading to happiness!
This article discusses Mindfulness meditation in relation to self-transcendence and becoming aware of true self
The Philosophy of the Peak-Growth Mindset Socratic logic, solipsism, and skepticism naturally generate different “angles” on any situation, and together they make rainbow thinking both possible and safe. Socratic logic: the interrogating lens Socratic questioning is a disciplined way of…
The placebo effect has a long history, and has real power over an individuals mental and physical health compared with medication, and the nocebo effect is its harmful “negative twin.
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.