Stress, brain, and coping mechanisms
A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well unknown Stress is part of our daily life: stressing about...
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A story of emotion (VIII): a facial expression of guilt?
The face is a picture of the mind Cicero Do we understand facial expressions in term of emotion or action tendencies? Whether emotions...
“Run, Forrest, run!”
(guess what this post is about...) From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running. Forrest Gump If you’d had met me 5 years...
A story of emotion (VII): Culture-specific expressions
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit...
Let's stop and feel
Feeling is the secret Neville Goddard In our modern societies, we do not really focus on feelings. We focus on actions, goals,...
A story of emotion (VI): Facial expressions of emotion
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter Drucker. The facial expression of emotion: productivity...
The permanent need for change
Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place — Lewis Carroll, Through the looking glass Lewis Carroll, in...
A story of emotion (V) - emotion and communication
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. Peter Drucker Emotion, we saw, links our physiological states to...
Christmas Eve... thank you!
I wanted to write about being grateful on this special day. Then, I realised it was quite a common theme this holiday season (or maybe it...
The tribulations of a PhD student
Imagination is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein In an earlier post, I mentioned being in my last year of my PhD. I thought...
A story of emotion (IV)
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. William Shakespeare Shame, guilt, and embarrassment –...
“Please don’t stop the music…”
One good thing about music , when it hits you, you feel no pain Bob Marley I tend to listen to music all the time (except while writing...
A story of emotion (III)
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde Morality and moral emotions: A definition When looking at the Oxford...
The light at the end of the tunnel…
Being at that point in time entering the final year of my PhD, I’d just like to say something… no I don’t know what I’ll do after, so...
A story of emotion (II)
Physical actions and body states, like plants, exist in nature. But the status of these physical changes as instances of anger, sadness,...
How I became a gym rat
Gym rat - Someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa. addict, freak, junkie, junky,...
A story of emotion (I)
Unfortunately, one of the most significant things ever said about emotion may be that everyone knows what it is until they are asked to...
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