Human Thinking
What Is Intuition?
This article introduces the idea of intuition and asks if our intuition can both help and mislead us?
What are Coping Responses?
What Are Defensive Responses?
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
Organismic Self
Absolute Democracy of the Psyche: Introduction
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
How does the Human Organism Regulate Itself?
Organismic Flow: Impact on Flow State
Psychological “flow states” are much easier to enter and sustain when the underlying organismic flow is relatively harmonious and supported.
What are Coping Responses?
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals tend to favour information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Dynamic Reframing
Peak-Growth Mindset: Using Philosophy in the Mindset
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…
Core-Self Pruning
Peak-Growth Mindset
The peak growth mindset provides conceptual understandings that allow for better handling of current experiences in the moment they happen.
What are Challenges and Opportunities?
What are Challenges and Opportunities?
Challenges are key to decision making, a challenge turned into an opportunity followed through, avoids the emotional pain of the challenge.
What is Decision-Making?
What is Decision-Making?
Decision-making is the mental process of choosing one option from several possibilities. It is what happens when we ask – “What should I do?”
What is the Human Brain?
What is the Human Brain?
Your brain is your body’s command centre and your mind’s home. It takes in information, makes sense of it based on past experience, and chooses responses from moment by moment; so you can stay alive, learn, adapt, and be yourself.