Positive Psychology? The recent Authors@Google talks have produced some of the most enlightening talks available on the Internet. One such talk I came across comes from Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology at the University of California . She’s a ‘positive’ psychologist that proposes a few life-changing strategies that you can employ to achieving a regular… Read More »
This wonderful article explains how the expectation that we have about other people influences their behavior. We behave in different ways with people according to the idea that we have created of them. The good news are that we can use the power of expectation to influence positively other people. This means that we can adopt a more positive attitude to… Read More »
If everybody went out today and hugged a complete stranger imagine what effect this would have on human nature throughout the world. FREE HUGS! Sometimes, a hug is all we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten… Read More »
How did a simple street artist go from painting grains of rice to directing a movie with two Oscar Winning Legends? The answer to this question can be summarized in one word- chutzpah (and barrel loads of it at that!) I’m guessing a few of you don’t know this term- it means audacity or nerve. The classic definition… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Creativity is such an amazing facet that we all possess as human beings; the untapped potential of the human mind is infinite. Following on from other themes I dug up this fascinating article that looks at different forms of creative thinking – we should move from ‘thinking out of the box’ to ‘no… Read More »
Everyone’s talking about the Law of Attraction ever since the movie “The Secret” was released to the world. Even Oprah did two shows on the subject in Feb 2007. But according to Jose Silva, the famous mind researcher and founder of the Silva Method, there are specific “Rules” that help you get better results. The… Read More »
It looks like the “Law of Attraction” is finally becoming a house-hold word. On Thursday, Feb 8, Oprah, the queen of talk-shows, interviewed select cast members from the hit documentary film, the Secret. For those of you living in a closet the last few months – the Secret is a phenomenal movie that interviews key… Read More »
Jacob of Mind-Energy.net recently interviewed Larry Plato, a graduate of several Silva seminars and one of the experienced voices on the Silva UltraMind community on Yahoo.com. Here is the unedited inteview where Larry discusses his experiences with Silva and the events in his life that lead to his interest in spirituality. 1. Can you tell… Read More »
AROUND 1970, psychologist Walter Mischel launched a classic experiment. He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the bell, he would come back and they could eat the marshmallow. If, however, they didn’t ring the bell and waited for him to come back on his… Read More »
Forty-odd years ago the most respected and certainly one of the most famous authors in America ofered to teach a class in one of the ivy league coleges. The university notified its alumni of the course, which was to be in creative writing. The response was far beyond wildest expectations. So many students wanted the… Read More »