Self-esteem is a widely used term and a concept that is talked about a lot today, however, sometimes, in a wrong way. Well, self-esteem goes far beyond the image, it is a subjective assessment that is configured during experiences, mainly in childhood, although...
Resentment is a feeling that generates unpleasant emotions in those who experience it. It is frequent that it lasts over time and that the person relives again and again that evil that someone caused him, with all the discomfort that it entails. Depending on the situation that originated it, the resentment...
Sooner or later, most of us reach a point where we ask ourselves this question. Some, when it's time to decide what do they want to study; others, when they start to get bored with the routine, of always doing the same thing and with the same people; others, after a sentimental separation...
There are many types of liars. Those who lie to pretend more, those who lie out of shame, out of fear, to get something, but also they must be true professionals. Those people who believe their own lies and act as if everything they say is real. And these are the most complicated,...
There are people openly betrayed by the partner who do not believe that the partner is unfaithful; already worn out love stories in which people continue; worrying signs of illness that we ignore by mistakenly attributing the disorders to fatigue from work; substance addictions...
Self-confidence is one of the most important and most noticeable characteristics in people. This feature has a great effect in how we behave with others and in the results we obtain from the activities we carry out in our day-to-day life. It is quite likely that you know...
Surely on many occasions you have not dared to carry out an activity for fear of what they will say if you do it wrong or if you make a fool of yourself. It is a feeling of loss of dignity, and of fear of being humiliated. The origin of the feeling of shame is in our survival instinct. Formerly,...
Self-hypnosis is a form of relaxation that helps to connect with the subconscious to achieve the changes we seek in our mind and our thoughts. The idea is that, through this relaxation, the barriers that we have in our mind that prevent us from making changes are relaxed. We would change...
If you have come this far it is because surely sometimes it is difficult for you to study, either because there is a lot of noise in your house or many interruptions because you can't concentrate or because you can't find the motivation. Homework accumulates and you finish the night before the exam studying at dawn without being able to...
Getting over a breakup is always a difficult process. It is a path in which the person must learn to live without the other, reorganize their life and approach it differently. On many occasions, we can support ourselves in our environment and start new projects that help us with this change, but literature...
Surely you know someone or it happens to you that you change your mood all the time. Each emotion you have lasts a short time and you go from one to another with or without an apparent reason and in a sudden way. Normally, when this happens to a person, they usually say that they are "sensitive" or that they are "irritable."...
When analyzing the relationship created over the years between cinema and psychology, it is discovered that it is deeply rooted, archaic, linked by a relationship of bidirectionality, since psychology has provided cinema with an enormous amount of stimuli, without which it probably would not have become a powerful...
All of us have a certain degree of needing to be approved by others. This appears due to our innate survival instinct in which in the past, belonging to a group and not being expelled from it was the key to survival. Currently, although it is necessary to be accepted in...
We all suffer at some point some unexpected and stressful event in our life. It doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, like a dismissal, it can be a marriage proposal, the expectation of a baby... all of them are important changes in a person's life and can lead to...
It is quite common for many people today to feel alone and are quite isolated from the world. New technologies, the pandemic, the longevity that makes many older people live alone in their homes, etc. All this means that some cannot access that company that we need so much. Is...
If you have come this far, surely you do not stop fearing that your partner will leave you, or that your friends will stop talking to you or you are afraid that you family wants to break contact with you. In addition, it is not always about the fear of physical abandonment, but emotional. That they stop caring about one or loving us...
We can't repeat to ourselves how fantastic we are in situations where, in effect, we don't shine: the best we can do is accept ourselves. thus, with our strengths and weaknesses. Researchers define this ability as "self-indulgence," which means being forgiving of yourself. However,...
Surely at some point during a difficult situation maintained over time you have come to feel that you could not take it anymore. You have even been able feel that physically you didn't have more energy either. It has also happened to you that during a psychological therapy a point has come where you cannot find...
In order to solve what happens to us, it is first necessary to find out what is happening. Often, in consultation, many people do not they know how to explain what is happening to them or what they feel and this can become a difficulty in therapy. A job you can get ahead of before you get duped into...
Writing is no stranger to therapy. For years, professionals have used records, questionnaires, diaries, and other forms of writing to help people heal from stress and trauma. Scholars trace the idea of writing as therapy to the time of the Egyptian pharaoh...
All of us are of habit and it is generally difficult for us to find new ways of acting. But change is life, and life is a continuous flow of both evolutions and transitions. It is a natural fact and as such it is convenient to accept it and live it in the most constructive way possible. Without...
I think it is impossible not to think by reading and certainly many books are capable of making life more enjoyable. Yet there is a crowd texts that make you think more than others and that help you see things differently. Can a book change your life? Yes of course. With this article...
With the term virtue is understood the disposition of mind oriented to the good. The ability of a man to excel at something, to perform a certain act optimally, to be virtuous. In its etymology, virtue derives from the Latin virtus, that is, virility, which in turn comes from vir (man), for...
Have you ever been told that you are sabotaging yourself? Do you think that you are not allowing yourself to be happy or achieve a certain goal? Have you wondering why you do it or how can you stop doing it? Self-sabotage is quite common. It consists of preventing oneself from reaching a certain...
Everyone, within themselves, cultivates the desire to be appreciated and to feel useful, a need also included among the fundamental needs of the human being listed in the note Maslow's Pyramid: the need for appreciation is a specific need for each individual. Immersed in a professional context,...
We can consider aptitude the ability to learn a certain behavior, or a congenital condition of a certain efficiency that is it becomes ability only if it manifests itself, but which can always remain in a latent state, or even a natural predisposition. Personal skills...
Do not you like your work? Do you want to transform your professional life but are afraid of jumping into the dark? We spend much of our Lives working: if we are unmotivated, disappointed, bored, angry, we are losing an important part of ourselves. Most of the workers...
Surely you have seen yourself stuck in a certain thought countless times. You spend hours and hours thinking about something that you worry about what will happen or something that has already happened and you end up having a great discomfort. On occasion, you even end up having a great discomfort. You will have done...
You've probably heard of withdrawal symptoms. However, you have not thought that you can go through it if you have not been a consumer of no hard drugs. Although the withdrawal syndrome is generally more intense in these types of substances, there are many types of substances that can cause...
How to suppress the preoccupations and enjoy the life? How to learn to live in the present? Enjoying more is not about money. You can learn to enjoy life and think less about the future. In this Psychology-Online article, we explain how to enjoy life and little girls...
What strategies do groups adopt when making a decision? Are two heads always better than one? Is the union always strength? With this Psychology-Online article we will try to understand together the steps of the decision-making process, how groups decide and why, sometimes, they intensify...
Most research in psychology has long focused on the "negative" aspects of being human; today, instead, With the recent advent of positive psychology, founded by Martin Seligman, the sphere of human potentialities has been explored through...
Today there are many people who find ourselves in states of physical and mental exhaustion, with anguish and depression, stressed or frustrated or confused and insecure. All this is a consequence of the social system in which we live in which superficial needs are created in exchange for submitting to...
Have you ever caught yourself talking to yourself while doing something? It may have worried you when you realized it, but if you stop to think, sure that you know many people you have heard alone. Perhaps your mother or your grandmother while they were cooking they were saying "where will I have put the onions"...
The soul in psychology is what the discipline addresses in its daily work. Disengage the psychological, emotional and social aspects that they have deprived man of living in peace with his soul is the objective that ethically should move any psychological action. But what exactly is the soul of...
Some people live feeling that they don't matter to anyone. It is a very painful experience that generates great discomfort in his life. This people they wonder why this is happening and what they could do to be just one more. They do not become aware of the complex psychological defense process...
Forgiving oneself supposes a process of introspection through which we become aware of our actions, the consequences and pain generated, we ask for forgiveness and we assume the necessary change in behavior so as not to repeat the situation. Sometimes some people can't forgive themselves...
The ego is a psychic entity that we build to navigate our days throughout our lives. It is about building a series of action mechanisms that allow us to express ourselves and adapt to this world and that are created from the moment in which it is not allowed to our...
Some people doubt whether it is good to take revenge on someone. A person has hurt them and a part of them has considered the possibility to get revenge. But, after that first defense response, they have assessed whether it is really worth adopting this vindictive behavior on the aggressor. Since...
Manipulation is the action of manipulating, it comes from the Latin "manipulus", from "manus" which means hand, and from "pelere" which means to fill. Formerly, the verb manipulate was designated to a handful of things that can be taken with the hand. So manipulating, etymologically, was everything that...
