9 Enneagram Types: Knowing Them Can Help You Understand Yourself & Others

Are you frustrated because you find it hard to relate to others? Understanding the Enneagram types will help you greatly. You will gain an understanding of others around you and your nature as well. But what is this mind-blowing tool and how does it work? What is its explanation of…

4 Ways Introspection Helps You Reconnect with Your True Self

Introspection has many benefits that help us live a healthy and happy life. As human beings, we have a concoction of feelings and emotions ranging from happiness and anger to melancholy and frustration. Sometimes, we disconnect from our inner self and get lost in the chaos and intricacies of life.…

7 Special Talents Introverts Didn’t Know They Had

When we think of introverts, we don’t generally think of special talents. Skills and talents are usually the realm of the extrovert. If we’re going to be honest, being an introvert in an extrovert’s world has a number of crippling disadvantages. Life is spent trying to justify an explain away…

Religious Experiences Activate the Same Part of Your Brain as Taking Drugs and Having Sex

Intense religious experiences are coordinated by the same brain pathways that are aroused when we fall in love, listen to music, take recreational drugs or have sex. Researchers found this evidence through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging technology (FMRI). They scanned nearly 20 devout Mormon’s brains, as they…

Why It’s Easier to Make Decisions for Others Than for Yourself

It is much easier to make decisions for others than to follow the advice we give out so readily. Science reveals the real reason why. But why is it so easy to make decisions for others and yet so exhausting when we try to make good choices ourselves? It seems…

That Little Voice in Your Head: The Difference Between Logic, Intuition, Spiritual Guide and Ego

What is that little voice in your head that tells you what to do: logic, intuition, ego or spiritual guidance? There are often situations when we make decisions using either our past experience, reason or heart's voice. Generally speaking, all situations should be resolved following a logical path, but life…

How We Are Being Manipulated into Having Irrational Fears and Worrying about the Wrong Things

The mainstream mass media are constantly manipulating us into having irrational fears. Statistically speaking, you are more likely to die from eating a biscuit than from terrorism or an epidemic. Yet, very few people have a morbid fear of biscuits. So why do we have so irrational fears? Why do…