Mindfulness is a psychological state of full attention to the present moment, with openness, curiosity and acceptance. It also means techniques for developing and maintaining this state. Hello friends! Yesterday we published on our YouTube channel, another brief video (8 minutes) about psychology. Perhaps you have heard or read about the word Mindfulness. To understand the meaning, we can learn ...

See the difference between these two sentences: 1) I have to read this text. 2) I want to read this text. In sentence 1, we have a duty, an order, a law to be made. It feels, for most of us, like pressure, of being forced to do it, of being an obligation. In sentence 2, the scheme is already ...

Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, on 04/22/1724, in East Prussia and died in the same city, on 02/12/1804. Kantian epistemology, as well as his ethical doctrine, caused great impacts on philosophy. Kant claimed to have had a “great light” in 1769. This “great light” comprised the center of his future “Copernican revolution”, which was already presented in his 1770 ...

In this text, you can learn more information about what psychology and psychoanalysis say about suicide. Clinical features According to Kaplan et al (1997), the most common factors associated with suicide are: – Men commit suicide three times more often than women. However, women try four times as hard as men. – This higher success rate among males is associated ...

Well, I think it goes without saying that we are selfish. The Question you read above: Why are we selfish already says that we are like that. But why? The first factor, which will be pointed out by biologists, doctors, anthropologists is: we are selfish in order to survive. To keep the body alive, we would have a “natural” tendency ...

Testimony from a Parent about the Signs of Autism The new AUTISM book by M.Books shows the importance of discovering the signs, diagnosing and starting medical treatment immediately. As says Dr. Jose Salomão Schwartzman: “The moment when the doctor needs to inform the parents that their child has an Autism Spectrum Disorder or even a suspicion in this regard is ...

Hello friends! I recently received some questions from the site’s readers about how to overcome their fear of driving. And, also, how to overcome nervousness when taking the test to get a driver’s license. In this text, I will give some psychology tips on how to overcome these difficulties. Once we learn to drive, driving becomes a simple, automatic, peaceful ...

The word Mindfulness is usually translated into Portuguese as full attention. We define mindfulness as the psychological state of attention to the present moment or as a disposition or trait that persists over time. We also talk about Mindfulness practices, practices that aim to develop the state and the trait. An interesting question to be answered is: mindfulness to what? ...

Hello friends! In our Course 100 Study Techniques we are now coming to the specific techniques for memorization. For Plato, knowing is remembering and, although this thought has a whole philosophy behind it, we can think about the importance of memory for learning. That’s what I was thinking yesterday as I wrote Memorization Technique number 32, Pythagorean Method. After all, ...

Basic definition: Intentional act of killing oneself, that is, taking one’s own life. Suicide is more than wanting to die, it’s more than giving up on living. The guy who commits suicide ends himself. Worst of all, there are more and more cases of people who choose to try to take their own lives. The reasons for some people to ...