Category: Mind & Consciousness

5 Ways to Achieve Workplace Zen

For example, Aetna’s yoga and meditation classes for employees teach breathing techniques, while a popular mental-wellness course offered at Google encourages employees to take a deep, conscious breath as part of a five-step process to…

4 Ways to Boost Your Creative Thinking

4 Ways to Boost Your Creative Thinking

When you create for a living, your whole livelihood is dependent upon your ability to consistently generate new ideas that people find engaging and useful or enjoyable. But sometimes the pressure to create can have…

Isaac Asimov on How Creativity Happens

Asimov poses a more complicated response, illustrating the too common problem of the over-powering genius silencing others, and more poignantly, the embarrassment of constant failure in the creative process … pollination of ideas is an…

Autistic people are more creative than you might think

Autistic people are more creative than you might think

In non-autistic individuals, the pressures of expectation and compliance with group behaviour may get in the way of creativity, preventing some of the more unusual ideas. In addition, there is work that suggests autistic people…

Happiness Isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings

Happiness Isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings

Jim returned to Wilfrid Laurier University to research neuroscience, and we promptly started up Plasticity Labs to help teach others what we’d learned about the pursuit of happiness. As our lives came to include more…

3 Ways to Build Your Confidence

Confidence isn’t something you’re born with. And confidence isn’t something only a small portion of society is blessed with. Nobody is blessed or born… 3 Ways to Build Your Confidence thumbnail courtesy of thinksimplenow.com

A Link Between Autism and Creativity?

A Link Between Autism and Creativity?

New research has found that people with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to produce unusually creative ideas. Psychologists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Stirling in England found…

The Mind That Doesn’t Mind

the possible benefits seem to make it a practice worth exploring. A 2015 study conducted by UCLA and Australian National University suggests meditation as an “attractive candidate in the quest for an accessible and inexpensive,…

9 DIY Ways to Improve Your Mental Health

The trick to getting around this perfectionism trap might be to set goals without taking failure personally, said Andrew Hill, a sports psychologist at York St. John University in England. One strategy, Hill told Live…