10 Steps To Designing An Amazing Infographic

  Information can be useful–and even beautiful–but only when it’s presented well. In an age of information overload, any guidance through the clutter comes as a welcome relief. That’s one reason for the recent popularity of information graphics. Infographics are visual designs that help to explain complicated data in a simple way (mental-health emergencies at [...]

41 Places To See Before You Die (Part I)

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards No matter how advanced our cities and technology is, eventually we get tired of all the noise, stress and crowd of the city and want to be in the nature. Humans have transformed Earth beyond recovery, but luckily not everything is lost yet. Beautiful mountains, blue water lakes, magnificent oceans [...]

Study: Stress Shrinks the Brain and Lowers Our Ability to Cope with Adversity | Healthland | TIME.com

Stress is an integral part of all of our lives, so much so, in fact, that we tend to shrug off our racing pulses and insomnia and constant angst as nothing unusual.   But researchers say that even everyday stress can be leading to changes in the brain that make us more vulnerable to mental [...]

Defining and curing depression: A yogic Viewpoint

Yogic and ayurvedic look upon depression differently to modern science. Ayurveda treats depression as a state of mind and not a disorder.   Denial of your basic emotional, psychological, and physical needs in life, not allowing yourself room to play, false and vain affirmations that you are okay when you are not actually okay, continuing [...]

Medication Generation

Many young people today have now spent most of their lives on antidepressants. Have the drugs made them emotionally illiterate? By Katherine Sharpe.   Young people are medicated even more aggressively now, and intervention often starts younger. In children, as in adults, antidepressants and medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are often used continuously for years. [...]

Sara

See on Scoop.it – Photos4Share I’m Sara, the host of the chaos that is me. This blog is about my ongoing journey towards something I don’t know what looks like. Hopefully a better “me” and a more complete Me. I have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and C-PTSD. Until very recently I didn’t [...]

60 Inconvenient Personal Development Truths

I know you want to be the best you can be. We all do. But sometimes we look for success in the wrong places or we try to achieve it in the wrong ways.   Here are 60 inconvenient truths about personal development to help you stay on track.   The acquisition of knowledge doesn’t [...]

Building Resilience

In the moments when life is falling apart, when our best laid plans are dashed and lying in a heap of disappointment, that we have the opportunity to grow more resilient. This deep inner work is one of the highest forms of love.   “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, [...]

27 Traits Of Successful People

Is it really possible to become a successful person in just one day? I actually believe you can become a successful person in just one second.   Why? Because to be a successful person you only have to change your thoughts and start to think like a successful person. Your have to program your brain [...]

5 Leadership Behaviors Loyal Employees Trust – Forbes

Is any relationship ever completely reciprocal? Not really, because one party always wields more power over the other. This is a human behavior dynamic that is tough to ignore, especially when we look deeper at workplace culture and team dynamics. There are leaders and followers, loved ones and lovers, employers and employees. We might like [...]

How Grief Works

We live in a culture that avoids emotional discomfort. In fact, our society makes it easy to look for distractions and diversions from all things painful. If we can drink, eat, shop, play or Facebook grief away, we will.   Living with loss has no closure on pain but, thankfully, it also has no closure [...]

The Complex Relationship Between Happiness and Motivation

Can too much happiness hurt motivation? Can too much motivation hurt happiness? How can we find a balance between happiness and motivation?   I guess it depends on your definition of happiness. If you define happiness as being fully satisfied and content with everything in your life, then there would never be anything you’re motivated [...]