Psychology Articles

I had an interesting experience recently in being "psychic" and perhaps it can add to your influencial power. First, let me say that whenever I do a "psychic" experiment I'm always ready to be wrong, and it happens at times. What I've found is that people will completely forget the times you missed in a reading and over emphasize the times you got a "hit". It's just one of the well known facts of psychic cold reading.

Since I recovered from panic disorder and agoraphobia, people often ask me what the major turning point in my recovery was. There were many turning points, but if I had to choose just one, I would pick the night I made a deal with God in one of my darkest hours of fear. That’s because it changed the orientation of my life.

The more optimistic you are the greater your chances of remaining vibrantly healthy, beating disease, living longer, being more successful at work, having a better marriage, and becoming far more financially secure.

A whole new school of psychiatry has grown up around the development of positive thinking. The key is intercepting negative thoughts. Surprisingly, no matter how positive we think we are, many of us have internal, mostly negative chatter that ties up the cerebral circuits all day long. Much of this chatter is actually pretty idiotic if you stop and listen to it.