Category Archives: Psychology

94 Elements examines the human predicament through chemistry

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A film project will reveal the human stories behind the elements and expose the startling rate at which we’re using them up – From the guardian.

“Depending on whom you ask, there are between 90 and 94 naturally occurring elements. For our new project, 94 Elements, we went with the higher figure. Number 94, plutonium, offers too many possibilities for documentary filmmakers to omit.

The stories of the elements are the stories of human life. Trace their patterns and they reveal the details of our personal lives, the state of our economies and our relationships with natural resources. Our bodies are mostly made from just six of them, each atom forged in the heart of a star perhaps now thousands of light years away. The universe is a fastidious recycler.”


Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/may/01/94-elements-human-life-chemistry

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Affirmations: BS or Valuable Personal Development Technique?

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Article by A J Kumar: Affirmations – in my experience they do work. It’s a matter of creating a different habit pathway, one that is positive rather than negative. See more at the link below:

“If you’ve read my past posts, you know I think that the “Law of Attraction” – by itself – is pretty much bogus.  I mean, really – you can sit around on the couch all day, wishing and hoping for a fit body, a million dollars and a supermodel girlfriend.  But until you actually take action to bring about these dreams, you’re not going to get an inch closer to achieving your goals.

Unfortunately, the universe isn’t just sitting around, waiting to fulfill your every desire.  Instead, you’ve got to bring about the changes you want through a combination of concerted effort and mental re-programming.”

Go here: http://paper.li/pinagency/1306815874 (Accessed 04/05/2012).

Synaesthesia, migraines and creativity

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Interesting piece by Doug Belshaw on the topic.

“It was only about two weeks ago that I found out I’m a bit weird. I was listening to an episode of BBC Radio 4′s All In The Mind (listen), part of which was dedicated to synaesthesia. I didn’t realise that something I experience all the time actually qualifies as a mild form of the condition!

But what is synaesthesia? Nature defines it in the following way:

An unusual ‘mixing of the senses’ in which a stimulus in one sensory modality (for example, a sound) elicits a percept in another modality (such as visual perception of a colour).

All In The Mind explained that this definition can be widened to include something both I and my mother experience: conceiving of time as being physically and spatially located. It’s difficult to explain this in words, and my perspective and view on time changes depending on the period I’m ‘looking at’. “

Read more at: http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/07/17/synaesthesia-migraines-and-creativity/#.T5zuDquJQ0E (Accessed 29/04/2012).

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Let’s Spy On The Computer Desktops Of Today’s Top Internet Artists

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Article from CoDesign:

“If I wanted a quick way to gain insight into someone, I’d head straight for his computer desktop. Little reveals more about a person so economically. Are his icons arranged in perfect parallel lines? He’s anal-retentive. Is his background color dreary gray? He’s a bore. Does he have a basket of kittens for a desktop image? Clearly, we’re destined to be best friends. Desktops are like jumpology for the 21st century.”

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669500/lets-spy-on-the-computer-desktops-of-todays-top-internet-artists (Accessed 23/04/2012)

 

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The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalogue of the Unconscious

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I came across this very interesting post on BrainPickings and just had to share:

 

 

 

 

 

“A primary method for making sense of the world is by interpreting its symbols. We decode meaning through images and, often without realizing, are swayed by the power of their attendant associations. A central proponent of this theory, iconic Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustaf Jung, made an academic case for it in the now-classic Man and His Symbols, and a much more personal case in The Red Book.”

 

 

 

To read more go to:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/07/29/the-book-of-symbols/

See the Archive for research in Archetypal Symbolism: http://aras.org/

An incredible archive of symbols.

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