Emotions are an essential part of the human experience. Our emotions make us who we are, gives us the colorful life with its highs and lows. Understanding our emotions and leveraging them effectively is a significant part of Personal Growth.
Learned Helplessness was a term that was coined by Martin Seligman and Steven Maier. Seligman did a lot of behavioral experiments with animals. And what he found was that, when an animal received negative stimulus repeatedly, in a way that …
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Life is not a bed of roses. And it is inevitable that we face difficulties, problems, challenges in life. Some of which we will be able to handle, solve, sort, deal, cope by ourselves, which is great. But then there …
Many a times you might experience difficult emotions like sadness, anger, hurt, jealousy, insecurity, rejection etc. And you may feel helpless that your emotions are controlling you. When you deny your emotions in our attempt to either not feel them …
5 ways by which we inadvertently encourage or even condone online bullying/shaming/trolling. For example – somebody forwards a message (the person may or may not the originator of the message) that could be insulting or shaming a particular person or …
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One of the latest epidemics that we as a society are facing is that of loneliness. Research suggests that feeling lonely can be as damaging as having 15 cigarettes a day. So what can we do? How do we address …
When one person tries to control or manipulate or gain power over the other person to make them do something or give something by issuing some kind of threat, it’s called Blackmail. When this occurs by making the other person …
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Sometimes you say or do something which you shouldn’t have or not do something that you should have. You might also have done something inadvertently as well. And the other person is hurt, disappointed, sad or even angry about it. …
The word Celebrity – means a famous person, especially in entertainment or sport. Vocabulary.com explains the etymology of the word celebrity: Celebrity comes directly from the Latin celebritatum, meaning famous, and is related to the verb celebrate which means to …
Congratulations!! You are now aware of your behavioral pattern of saying hurtful things to your partner during a conflict which you generally do not mean. How do you not say hurtful things to your partner in a conflict? How to …
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Why do we end up saying the harshest of things during a conflict to our partner? We have all done this at some time or time or the other. In the heat of the moment, during a conflict with your …
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