10 Signs You Have Lost Touch with Your Inner Self

Any one of the following signs can indicate that you’ve lost touch with your inner self. A loss of connection with the inner self can manifest as symptoms showing a split between you as mind, and you as organism; and as a split between you and your environment. 1. You are anxious…

8 Obscure Emotional States You’ve Felt but Couldn’t Find a Name for

Have you ever been stuck for a word to describe some of your more complex emotional states? Which of the following 8 emotional states are you familiar with? 1.  Sublimation Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, used the term sublimation to refer to the redirection of the erotic drive (or libido)…

What Causes Depression? 4 Possible Answers That Offer Practical Solutions

What causes depression? Is it something that you’re born with? Is it a chemical imbalance? Is it lifestyle-related, or is it your experiences? Depression and other mood disorders are very complex, and what causes them is still not entirely understood. It's become increasingly clear in recent years that the relationship…

Everything Is Interconnected: How Spirituality, Philosophy, and Science Show That We Are All One

It’s difficult for us, as individual human beings, with the feeling of distinctness and separateness we have, to comprehend that everything is interconnected. Indeed, we're so alone, at times, in this physical form which seems to differentiate each of us from the rest - where all our fortunes seem to be varied…

5 Common Words That Have Different Meanings for Extroverts and Introverts

Extroverts and introverts have vastly different perceptions of life - so different, in fact, that they often struggle to understand one another. And of course, they have a totally different understanding of common things, notions and words. Here are 5 common words and phrases that have totally different meanings for…

10 Levels of Consciousness – Which One Are You At?

Many spiritualist or esoteric traditions have mapped out the idea that people's consciousness could exist at different levels. The below system proposes 10 distinct levels of consciousness: 1. The physical level of consciousness On the first level, you identify with the physical and material realm completely. You are an embodiment…