I was traveling through Arkansas when I made a stop for gas. To the side of the station was a long waist-high container. Written on the side was “Baby Rattlers”. I approached the stainless steel container with caution to peer over the edge. The box contained rattling toys for...
Social psychologist Daniel Wegner began exploring the Ironic Process Theory while studying thought suppression in 1987. This is also known to many as the White Bear Problem. I guess White Elephant was taken (tee hee). Ironic Process Theory is an abstract idea that says conscious attempts to suppress thoughts...
Martyr complex is a term used by psychologists to describe a person who chooses to feel and act like a victim. A people-pleaser is a close relative to the martyr complex people (tee hee). Both will sacrifice their needs to please others. The difference is the martyr complex comes...
In the early 1900s, Edward Titchener, a British psychologist, described words’ losing their meaning as puzzling and a bit frightening. It was also the first report of semantic saturation in academic literature. When a word is repeated, reactive inhibition can occur. Rapid firing of the word causes brain neurons...
One of Edgar Cayce’s hypotheses was that human consciousness broke off into fractals. In an instant, theses particles of energy (some would call human souls) left ‘at-onement’ with God. The result was some of these souls descending upon the Earth. Their destiny was the experience of inhabiting a three-dimensional...
Have you ever walked into a restaurant with a menu bound like a book? You open to several pages of choices for your meal. By the time you finish the hardbound copy, you’ve lost your appetite and leave (tee hee). I prefer a one-page, limited menu (tee hee). Either...
Personally, I have been going through an interesting period of life. It seems like the Universe is delivering a daily reveal (tee hee). A revelation is defined as a surprising and previously unknown fact often delivered in dramatic fashion. A revelation can be a divine or supernatural disclosure related...
This is such an interesting topic to study. According to my friend who is a counselor, “We are only as healthy as the secrets we keep.” I have experienced the disclosure of a 53-year-old family secret. I found out I had a brother who was given up at birth...
I had a session with a young man early in my career. He went home and told his mother, “Russell is a ‘Protestant Mystic’.” (tee hee). That is the first time I remember being called one. Mystic is one of those words that carry different meanings. A mystic is...
Have you ever been so focused on a goal, you never thought beyond reaching your target? A sudden change leads to the unexpected completion to a long-standing issue. You reached the end of a process with zero preparation toward what comes next. This seems to describe a common theme...
