January 7th, 2022 By Aletheia Luna Guest writer for Wake Up World An outsider looking in type of a person quite simply does not fit in with existence-as-we-know-it. Such a person is a...
Category - Psychology
20 Things You Can Do This Year To Change Your Life
January 6th, 2022 By Josh Richardson Guest writer for Wake Up World There is no secret to happiness, but there is a science to it, says Tim Bono, a psychology lecturer in Arts and Sciences who...
Does Free Will Keep Us Honest?
January 4th, 2022 By April McCarthy Guest Writer for Wake Up World With the start of the New Year millions have resolved to lie less, cheat less, put the holiday hangovers behind them, or otherwise...
Evaluating the Evidence for Reincarnation
December 23rd, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World The idea of reincarnation never sat particularly well with me. I used to think it was too neat and simplistic...
Breaking Down and Waking Up: How the Breakdown of Identity Can Lead to Transformation
December 9th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World It’s human instinct to avoid suffering and try to make life as comfortable and easy as possible. But...
How to Break Free When You’re Feeling Trapped in Life
December 1st, 2021 By Aletheia Luna Guest writer for Wake Up World You feel suffocated and weighed down by some kind of invisible force. And you don’t really know why, but this force...
Stress is Not Always a Bad Thing: An Excerpt from ‘Sit Down to Rise Up’
November 17th, 2021 By Shelly Tygielski Guest Writer for Wake Up World Have you ever pruned or cut back a tree or a plant, then been shocked at how barren it looks? Only to then watch with amazement...
Transformation Through Turmoil: When Post-Traumatic Growth is Sudden and Dramatic
October 29th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World One of the most well-established concepts in modern-day psychology is post-traumatic growth (PTG)...
Why Hedonism Doesn’t Lead to Happiness
October 7th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World When I was a teenager, I went through a period of depression. I stopped going out in the evenings, and...
The World Is Not an Illusion
September 30th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World One of the biggest myths about spirituality is that it reveals the world to be an illusion...
Sending a Signal of Safety
September 15th, 2021 By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Ever look around and feel like we are all either shut-down and depressed, or wired and on edge? Or both? We humans are having...
How Natural is War to Human Beings?
September 1st , 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World If you look at the world today, and if you survey the human race’s recorded history, it’s easy...