Showing posts with label counter-intuitive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label counter-intuitive. Show all posts

Monday, December 1, 2014

Acceptance: what it is, what it isn"t


Acceptance... does it mean you like it? Does it mean you condone it? Does it mean you want it? Does it mean you are a doormat?

Accepting things the way they are, people the way they are and the way they aren"t, is the key to happiness.

But, as I am finding out, there is a confusion about what acceptance means.

For it to be clear, we need to first look at resistance.

CLICK TO CONTINUE
#Raiseyourvibration

Friday, November 28, 2014

Foresight is available only to sentient beings. Nature, the Universe, don"t have foresight


Foresight is available only to sentient beings. Nature, the Universe, don"t have foresight, don"t predict, don"t care, don"t make things wrong, don"t have regrets, and... gasp, evolution is NOT the survival of the fittest, it is the survival of the lucky. I"ll talk about this last one in another article, when the thought will be fully developed.

For now, I am interested in foresight and divination... this is the subject of this article.

CLICK TO CONTINUE
#Raiseyourvibration

Saturday, August 23, 2014

NEW: 10 of the Most Surprising Findings from Psychological Studies

http://www.yourvibration.com/wp-content/uploads/pink-elephant.jpg

Psychology has a reputation for being the science of common sense, or a field that simply confirms things we already know about ourselves.

One way of battling this misconception, explains Jeremy Dean — a PhD candidate in psychology and master of ceremonies at the always-awesome PsyBlog — is to "think about all the unexpected, surprising, and just plain weird findings that have popped out of psychology studies over the years." Here are ten of his favorite examples.





Cognitive dissonance

This is perhaps one of the weirdest and most unsettling findings in psychology. Cognitive dissonance is the idea that we find it hard to hold two contradictory beliefs, so we unconsciously adjust one to make it fit with the other.

CLICK TO CONTINUE