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Why are we so bad at keeping our New Year’s resolutions?

We wake up on the 1st with the best of intentions and lots of energy to tackle our resolutions. But are we really keeping up our resolutions?Continue Reading

Mind your mind palace

By: Prabha

In: Mind cafe

A mind palace is not a physical location, but a set of rooms or specific location you build in your mindContinue Reading

Picky attention: It’s all in the mind!

By: Prabha

In: Mind cafe

You’re walking down a grocery aisle, looking for a particular item. How do you choose amongst all the items clamoring for your attention?Continue Reading

This is a classic example of ‘Projection’, a type of defence mechanism, that you and me use it unconsciously from time to time. It is believed that we use it to avoid uncomfortable repressed feelings. Projection may also occur when individuals cannot accept their own impulses or feelings. According to famous psychologist Sigmund Freud the uncomfortable unconscious emotions are projected on to other people, so that other people become carriers of our own perceived flaws. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for us, this form of emotional displacement makes it much easier to live with ourselves … because everyone else is responsible for our misery – not us!

In public perception, mental illness and violence remain intertwined, and much of the stigma associated with mental illness may be due to a tendency to conflate mental illness with the concept of dangerousness.

The pain experience for all of us begins when unpleasant stimuli activate sensory nerve fibers called nociceptors. The brain itself does not feel pain because there are no nociceptors located in brain tissue itself. Headaches, however, are a different story. Though your brain does not have nociceptors, there are nociceptors in layers of tissue known as the dura and pia that serve as a protective shield between the brain and the skull. In some situations, chemicals released from blood vessels near the dura and pia can activate nociceptors, resulting in headaches, such as migraines.

Which personality trait do you think defines you the most?