Author: Dan Pouliot

A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.

Reject Versus Discard

How do you feel about your trash when you remove it from your house? Would you say you discard it, or reject it? Clearly you discard it. Rejecting your trash sounds a little too emphatic! What about beliefs/values/attitudes/sensibilities/mindsets? For the ones that don’t line up with your values, do you discard them? Or reject them?

Absolutes vs. Tendencies

Take ‘your thoughts create your reality’ for example. For the Absolutist in me, one counterexample will nullify that claim. It’s easy, we’ve all got plenty of examples in our lives. This morning I was certain there’d be no clean plastic cups… lo and behold, there were. And how come Mick Jagger didn’t die before he… Continue reading Absolutes vs. Tendencies

Are You Starting to See a Pattern?

Mirror neurons in the brain fire both when taking a specified action and perceiving the action. 1 Repeatedly watching distressing images can cause acute stress symptoms. 2 Mirror Neurons: From Monkeys To Humans[↩]PNAS[↩]https://buryebilgrill.online/footnotes

Negative Thinkers Have It Right

I’ll cop to the link-bait headline, but it is not without merit. The simplicity of the term positive thinking belies the depth and complexity of the topic. It causes misunderstandings from people on both sides of the matter, and the misunderstanding can be summed up as: don’t be negative. I suspect this misunderstanding is at least… Continue reading Negative Thinkers Have It Right

Strong or Frail, Which Would You Rather Be?

“Calm seas don’t make good sailors.” —Anonymous “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” —John F. Kennedy What a frail species we are. Without others,… Continue reading Strong or Frail, Which Would You Rather Be?