Tag: relationships
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Understanding Nostalgia’s Role In Emotional Resilience
Nostalgia means recollecting memories of the past with longings in a rose-tinted manner. The good old times, as the saying goes. Old songs and old movies hold a special place in a lot of people’s heart, and probably all of us have the experience of spending hours looking at childhood collections and photo albums when…
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How Specific Compliments Boost Confidence and Resilience
Do you take complimenting others seriously, or do you mechanically tell others “You are great”? Promoting a culture of showing appreciation and positive feedback is definitely a desirable trend, yet giving out generic compliments blindly can sometimes result in recipients disregarding these positive feedbacks while feeling uncertain about other’s “true view”. For the anxious ones,…
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Overcoming Anxious Thoughts: Strategies for Personal Growth
Anxious feelings could come in the form of an inner voice that keeps raising questions, highlighting dangers in the situation or making negative predictions no matter what we do. This pessimistic inner voice usually focuses on safety from physical and social threat. Physical threat is not limited to life and death issues like accident or…
Compassionate Living Psychology 