Psychology | Anxiety
At the beginning of the last century Britain was a Christian country and people believed in God. Religions gave the masses rules to live their lives by and if they didn’t follow them, they could go to...
View ArticlePsychology | Coping with anxiety
Over the past hundred years anxiety has become an epidemic and trying to avoid it changes people’s lives. We have all become more selfish and less sociable. We like to think we are more sociable with...
View ArticleHow to talk to your (inner) self
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net I read a lot of stuff about the ‘inner self’ and most of it is garbage. Your inner self or sub-conscious mind tries to help you, but it doesn’t always get it right. It...
View ArticlePsychology | The meaning of life
Have you ever wondered what our purpose is in living? Life does appear to be our purpose, to live and survive. Our purpose isn’t just to survive as individuals, but as a species. When we feel we’re in...
View ArticlePsychology | Out of Desperation
People will often behave out of character, because they are desperate. Desperation can drive us to commit crime; even murder. Desperation is feeling we can no longer tolerate our situation. We not...
View ArticlePsychology | The subconscious mind
We don’t think about most of the things that we do. We don’t think about walking, we just do it. Once we have learnt to ride a bike or drive a car, that too seems automatic. At first it’s hard, we...
View ArticlePsychology | scary or exciting?
The people on this fairground ride are probably excited, but the people watching are feeling a little scared just watching it! There is a fine line between fear and excitement. When we feel in control...
View ArticlePsychology: Little Albert
The story of ‘Little Albert’ is quite well known to psychology students. ‘Little Albert’ was 11 months old and the subject of an experiment into fear carried out by a Dr Watson. Albert was conditioned...
View ArticleInner voices #psychology
We all have those inner voices that try to overcome logic and tell us that what we are doing is a great idea despite being against common-sense. More often though those inner voices are giving us...
View ArticleHow to deal with worry
I went out yesterday to take photographs in the sunshine and do some shopping. Things didn’t go to plan. The shopping wasn’t too bad, although I made mistakes and bought a couple of items I didn’t...
View ArticleUncertainty, anxiety and investment #finance
Investment not only comes from the rich it comes from pension funds who invest on behalf of the middle classes of the wealthier countries of the world. Our national lottery is run by a private company...
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