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The consequences of sleep deprivation and being a night owl
Sleep deprivation can be poisonous to one’s health physically and mentally but can the same be true for a night owl? Even if you stay up at night, there should be no problem choosing to sleep the necessary eight hours during the day, right? This is a question asked often by people interested in sleep…
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Overcoming OCD: What my compulsions taught me
There I was, trapped in my room with no where to go. It had become my last refuge and now a self-contained cell. I was a living contradiction: both the prisoner and the gatekeeper. This is what OCD had reduced my life to: hiding away from all of my fears in the confines of my…
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My Un-sheltering Experience at a Men’s Housing Center
I’ll never forget that frigid evening in February, walking down the creaky wooden steps that lead to the underground men’s homeless shelter in the northern part of Chicago. Never had I been truly exposed to a vulnerable population, being that I grew up in a small, privileged, suburban neighborhood that shrouded me from the difficulties…
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Think Like Superman, Be Like Superman: How your body language can change everything
There is a lot of empowerment to be found through the ways in which we express ourselves creatively and physically. Some find empowerment by altering their body language, but how exactly can we do that?
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Understanding the Hedonic Treadmill and how to achieve sustainable happiness
Want to be happier? Arthur Schopenhauer had once remarked: “How insatiable a creature is man! Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.” It seems as if our friend Schopenhauer was on to something which is that we always…
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A guide on how to rebuild after life’s disasters
You don’t know how and you don’t know when but it happened. Maybe you were completely in denial, maybe you saw it coming or even predicted it. Perhaps you were waiting for it, counting down the months, weeks and days until – CRASH. You knew it was possible but .. Did you really? What before…
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Part 2: History of the Soul
If you just joined us, you’ve happened upon an attempt to cover the vast ocean of contributions to what we know as the ‘soul’ today. Quick recap: initial consideration of the soul began circa 200,000 BC, which lead to organized religion circa 9831 BC. Earliest written records date to around this time, and the first…
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Part 1: History of the Soul
Do you believe you have a soul? That all living things have souls (Animist religions)? That all living things have souls, but only human souls pass on to an afterlife, like supporters of Christianity and many—if not all—Abrahamic religions? That all things have souls resurrected within different forms depending on their karma, like Buddhists, Hindus,…
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What’s your perception of depression?
Depression sucks. It sucks the life out of you, leaving you wondering if you will ever find happiness, energy or motivation; You may even question if you deserve the things you so earnestly desire. Sometimes depression can last a little while and at other times it seems endless. Depression causes real problems that can affect…
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What happens in our brain when we try to decide
It was Saturday morning and I was on my way to meet Caroline for brunch. It had been a while since I saw her and in order to express my apology for being such a ghost, and such a terrible friend, I told her I’d save her a trip on the bus and that I’d…