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Psychological techniques
The articles below contain specific psychological techniques that you can use to calm down, cheer up, improve your personal or work relationships, and more. You’ll also find posts about the techniques that mental health professionals use to help you.
Reforming the entitled victim
Stuck in a disempowering victim mindset? Feel like people are working against you or not giving you the support you want? Or dealing with someone like this?
This remarkably wise advice from Shrink Wrap guest writer Tana Saler could be exactly what you need.
Why our brains cannot grasp viral spread
If you place one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, two on the second, four on the third, and so on, how many grains will be on the 64th square?
The answer knocks most people’s socks off. Here’s a short explanation of what I’m calling COVID-19 dyscalculia.
Why your stress response can feel like it’s hijacking your personality, and what to do about it
Do you ever feel stressed, anxious, angry or shutdown? Or perhaps you have physical ailments that you suspect are stress-related.
Well, it could be your Vagus Nerve. This article teaches you how to be a better steward of your mind-body, informed by Stephen Porges‘ Polyvagal Theory.
How to feel genuinely confident and impress at job interviews
Should you use special body language and other techniques to impress at interviews?
Winning at job interviews is actually much simpler than that. Here’s how.
You’re smarter than you think
Do you think only with your brain? Or is intelligence an embodied phenomenon?
This article explores the science and subjectivity of perception and interoception – and the profound, untapped wisdom of your body.
Things are looking up
I returned from walking my dog the other day in such an uplifted, joyous state that it took me by surprise. I realised I had unconsciously been applying three techniques that build positive, relaxed mood, pretty much on demand.
Here they are, so you can use them too. Read more…