The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure. Gordon W. Allport, The Individual and His Religion Austrian psychiatrist, philosopher, and author Viktor Frankl spent four years in different concentration camps during the second world war. From the ashes of his horrific experiences during his imprisonment […]
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Reasons Not to Have Sex
In most modern-day societies, the idea of not having sex may sound preposterous. After all, isn’t physical intimacy one of the key ingredients of a healthy and fulfilling life? Well, if that’s the case, then we stumble upon a problem, as the visibility of sexuality and eroticism only increases in this era, the frequency of […]
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Forgiving Someone Who Wronged You
Feelings of bitterness and revenge are like heavy stones we carry around on our backs. And if we’re unable or unwilling to throw these stones onto the ground and walk away from them, we’ll not only exhaust ourselves; the load also increases because of new hurtful life experiences. Eventually, we’ll carry even more stones until […]
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The Fear of Missing Out
Desire can be a significant hindrance to living a purposeful and tranquil life. As soon as we want something, we fall into a state of lack, and we feel restless. And the obvious way out is to fulfill that desire so that we can feel content and happy again. A much-discussed phenomenon in the current […]
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Reasons Not to Worry What Others Think
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing. Richard Phillips Feynman It’s generally a good idea to care about other people’s opinions to some degree, as they could contain […]
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Ending Your Inner Civil War
What drives people to war with themselves is the suspicion or the knowledge that they consist of two persons in opposition to one another. The conflict may be between the sensual and the spiritual man, or between the ego and the shadow. Carl Gustav Jung, CW11, Par 522 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung observed that whatever […]
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How to Stop Procrastinating 📽️
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon the morrow and wastes to-day. Seneca, On the Shortness of Life, 9 When we procrastinate, we are immersed in future thinking, and unable to do the work that we had planned to do in the present moment. The consequences of this behavior are often harmful. […]
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What’s done is done | Letting go of the past
Being immersed in paperwork during the last few weeks, I feel like I’m running a company. Officially, that’s exactly what I’m doing. Lately, I’ve been watching YouTube stats, submitting my earnings to the government for tax cuts, applying SEO to my videos for better rankings, examining past results, and speculating future expectations. It’s a shame, […]
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Reasons to Stop Worrying 📽️
The ability to plan for the future is a cornerstone of our civilization. The human race would never have flourished if we didn’t organize, arrange, design, prepare, and delay gratification for greater causes. Take, for example, this structure: the Kölner Dom, which is a massive cathedral in the German city of Cologne. The construction began […]
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An Introduction to the Enneagram 📽️
The Enneagram of Personality is a system used by numerous mental health professionals to get more insight into one’s character, and as a method for self-development. The Enneagram consists of nine personality archetypes that are interconnected in different ways. Some say that the Enneagram is liberating compared to the conventional methodology of mental health disorders […]
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