Winter Foods Winter is the season when we can feel the most vulnerable, insecure, and lacking in motivation. Foods that can make us feel supported, warm, and secure are buckwheat, oats, soba noodles, miso soup, adzuki beans, roots, greens, and salty condiments. By adding the above foods to your diet, you’ll feel more self-confident and less…
This 24-minute recording will help you get a good night’s sleep or if you prefer, to have a cat nap during the day. Please do not listen to this recording while doing anything else other than sitting comfortably or lying down. Get a Good Night’s Sleep To download “right click” and “save”. more meditation audio…
Look at the first picture and it appears that there is a spiral formed by overlapping black arc segments. In the second picture below, when the arcs are highlighted in another colour , you can see that there is no spiral but a number of concentric circles. The tilted tile elements in the picture cause…
A man was doing the famous Rorschach test, in which a person is shown an inkblot and asked to state what they see. To the first inkblot, the man replied, “I see a woman.” When shown the second inkblot, he said, “Oh that’s a pair of breasts.” With the third inkblot, he looked embarrassed and…
If motivation was a feeling, then nothing difficult would ever be achieved.
If you said the group on the left, then you’ve just experienced the “connectedness illusion” that causes viewers to underestimate the number of circles in a group. Researchers at the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario presented two groups of circles. In one group are connected to tiny lines but the…
A man came to see Milton Erickson claiming that he was experiencing pain in an arm that had been amputated. All the doctors and psychologists up to that point had all told him that it was not possible to feel such pain. They called it phantom pain and said it was all in his head….
When a cat purrs it may be doing something more than simply communicating or expressing contentment. Some researchers believe that the vibrations (24-140 per minute) are helpful for bone regeneration, to reduce pain and swelling and repair tendons and muscles. However, purring doesn’t only benefit cats. Research has also shown that stress relief and lowering…
When Milton Erickson was a young boy, living in Wisconsin, he found a horse grazing by the roadside. It was saddled and Erickson figured that it must have thrown its rider. Since he didn’t recognise the horse, he had no idea whom it belonged to. But he had an idea and so carefully mounting the horse…
A student came to his guru, looking very distressed. “Master,” he said, “something very strange happened this morning at breakfast.” The guru nodded his head, “Yes, What happened?” “You know, Master, how if you happen to drop a buttered piece of toast, it always falls butter-side down on the floor.” “That’s true,” replied the guru,…