Religious proselytizing, and professional sales, and sexual seduction: what do these three have in common? What, to borrow a term from...

Have you hugged a psychopath today? Why would you? In a word, “Oxytocin.” The dopamine oriented reward system of the reptilian brain can...

Every human brain, is equipped with fault-finding circuitry. This exists, not at the whimsy of some malicious deity, but rather was...

The Jedi counsel, upon Coruscant, cautioned the juvenile Anakin Skywalker that fear is the path to the dark side. And yet a careful...

As a bored child, set upon the couch, home from school (with yet another illness) I remember television shows, featuring clowns, working...

When I first heard of “setting boundaries” it sounded rather unfriendly, like I was erecting a barrier between myself and others. But in...

We want to be the good guy, we want to do the right thing. But it is not always easy to know what the right thing is, now is it? If doing...

How long will well-meaning fools try to convince us that our suffering is due to stinking thinking, all the while neuroscience teaches us...

Change is like an onion. It is ubiquitous, multi-layered, complex, makes life interesting, and often makes us cry. There are days when we...

It’s good to give, for as healthy mammals that is literally what we are wired to do. But that is not all we are wired for. We are wired...

If yang savors the accomplishment of a goal, whereas yin savors the journey upon the path toward that same goal then which attitude is...

We are born soft, and weak, and helpless. It is little wonder that we’re also born with a drive to cling as tightly and as desperately as...

No. It is a small word, just a consonant and a vowel; and yet it could be as powerful as it is difficult to use. Especially when using it...

Jesus scolded Peter, “Those who live by the sword, will die by the sword.” Do we squander our lives fighting our: circumstance, and our...

Don’t force your mind to still, it wastes your time and harms your mind. To paraphrase Ray Charles, let it “…do what it do.” It’s all...

“New Trek has grown too woke!” the embittered regressive grumbled like the curmudgeon he was. Clearly he forgot that within the three...

Like many survivors of the C-PTSD that comes from prolonged child abuse I was drawn to the promised safety and quasi-parental approval...

I’ve never actually had anything that lasted forever. None of my clinging could ever stop any circumstance, or person, or emotion, or...

What makes us hash, and re-hash the ugliest and most painful moments of our lives? Is the analytical, problem-solving part of our minds...

The part of the brain that deals with logic is NOT the part of the brain that gets addicted so you can’t talk someone out of alcoholism....