Have you heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy? It’s a term that’s used a lot in psychology and education. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s basically when a belief comes true because a person is already acting in a way to make that belief a reality. Let me give you an example… Let’s pretend that there’s …
Thoughts can be a glorious thing. When they’re good, you have no problem with them. If you’re remembering how well your OKCupid date from last night went then you welcome those thoughts. When you start thinking about how you nailed your work presentation yesterday then you start feeling those feelings of happiness that you had when you were giving the …
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of taking care of yourself. In that post I mentioned the phrase, “you can’t pour from an empty glass,” and how you need to make sure that you don’t give away all of your energy and time at the expense of yourself. This is very important to remember, but it’s also …
When I was in high school I saw this movie in my AP Psychology class. It was called The Secret. This was a film based on a book that talked about the law of attraction. This law basically states that whatever you spend your time focusing on you will end up attracting into your life. Therefore, if you focus on …
Words have the power to do a lot. We create stories with them, and these stories take us to far away places. Through these words, we fight dragons, find love, conquer our fears, and take solace in the kindness of human kind. Words allow us to escape from our everyday problems. When they are written down, we can take a …
Do you ever wake up and you just feel good? You wake up having that feeling that makes you think “today’s going to be my lucky day!” I know that I’ve had that happen to me! Sometimes when I wake up in the morning I’m suddenly filled with this feeling that let’s me know that today is going to be …
In my personal opinion, it’s pretty difficult to regulate the thoughts that come across my mind. I know that there are plenty of people out there who have control over what they listen to as their thoughts go through their minds. These people practiced and practiced until they were able to come to a place where they could decide which …
I recently came across a photo on Facebook that showed just how powerful the process of positive thinking can be. For those of you who doubt that something good can result from something as simple as a positive thought try listening to this little account of positive thinking… In 2011 Morolake Akinosun had a dream. She was only a seventeen …
Do you know how many thoughts you have a day? Is it in the tens? Or the hundreds? Or the thousands? Research suggests that most people have between 50,000 and 70,000 thoughts per day. That’s a lot of time that your brain devotes to creating thoughts. Some of these thoughts are inconsequential… “I should wear my blue shoes instead of …
Heartache. Pain. Betrayal. Deception. All of us experience these things, and so much more, at one point in time or another. These things aren’t pleasant. Ask anyone. No one wants to experience heartache. Nobody wants to go through pain. Not a single person likes being betrayed. And not too many people out there like being deceived. Even though we don’t …