By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World From time to time, most of us have strange experiences that defy common sense and can’t be explained. Some observers are too...
Category - Psychology
Criticism and Unsolicited Advice: How it Helps Us and Our Relationships
May 6th, 2021 By Jack Adam Weber Contributing writer for Wake Up World Many take offense to advice when they don’t ask for it, including suggestions. Unsolicited advice can feel...
Hypnotic Healing: What is Responsible for the Placebo Effect and Hypnosis?
April 20th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World In the 1840s, a Scottish doctor living in India named James Esdaile was frequently visited by men with enormous...
Beyond Anger to Healing
April 14th, 2021 By Diana Harris Guest Writer for Wake Up World While meditating last night upon the pandemic of hate/anger in our country, this message came to me. What emerged was a pathway to...
How Radical Self Honesty Can Change Your Life
April 7th, 2021 By Kristen Yates Guest Writer for Wake Up World Lying to ourselves has become the most normal thing in the world. And it’s the thing that keeps us in a perpetual state of...
Learn How to Truly Forgive – and Truly Heal
March 31st, 2021 By Lawrence Doochin Guest Writer for Wake Up World Learning how to truly forgive is something we all need to learn, just as...
The Transformational Effects of Bereavement
March 22nd, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World One of the most famous stories in Buddhism is the parable of the mustard seeds. A young woman named Kisa Gotami...
When Post-Traumatic Growth is Voluntary: The Impulse that Attracts us to Challenge and Danger
March 5th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World After leaving university I had a temporary office job and worked with a man who was an amateur motorcycle...
Stop Fighting Your Negative Thoughts – Here are 3 Reasons Why
By Aletheia Luna Guest writer for Wake Up World Is negative thinking something we should be ashamed of? All over social media, the internet, and within countless books we hear of ways to...
The Compassion Problem: Why Do Some Religious People Fail to Live Up to Religious Teachings?
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World The teachings of religious leaders such as Jesus and the Buddha set a high bar for human behavior that their followers have...
Beyond Religion: Will Human Beings Ever Transcend the Need for Religions?
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World A few years ago, two young smartly-dressed Mormon gentlemen approached me outside my local library. ‘Excuse me sir,’...
The Psychology of Nationalism: Transcending the Illusion of National Identity
December 18th, 2020 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Rusty Schweikhart was a member of the Apollo 9 space mission in March 1969, which carried out tests for the...