Our brains govern everything in our lives. Our wants and desires, our fears, our behaviors. And the fundamental “wiring” essentially is the same as it was thousands of years ago. For survival purposes, we’ve been wired to avoid pain (stay safe and alive), and seek out pleasure (shelter, food, sex)....
Resilience
In her outstanding book “Good Anxiety", Dr. Wendy Suzuki talks extensively about resilience. She describes its importance for well-being, it’s relationship to stress, and how to build more of it. Resilience is essentially one’s ability to bounce back from hardship, from stress or trauma. It’s like the yin to stress...
Cold Exposure
Even though this platform is all about improving our mental well-being through various psychological techniques and philosophical ways of thinking, there are some physical practices that are extremely beneficial to improving our moods and our minds. I’m not talking about diet and fitness. There are various resources out there that...
An Argument for God from Health
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and many others have argued brilliantly for the existence of God from things like motion, potentiality and actuality or contingency. I’m sure this argument has been brought to the table, and I’m quite certain that these are not my original thoughts, but I thought of another argument...
Do You Have Burnout?
Are you burnt out? At work? At life? Do you know burnout is a real thing? Well, it may not be as scientific or as measurable or quantifiable as something like stress, but it certainly exists and can be really harmful to your health. There are many signs and symptoms...