Dean Radin discusses his recent double-blind study of serving tea “treated” with good intentions. Radin: The bottom line is that if you believe/expect that you are consuming a specially treated substance, that belief alone will strongly influence your mood. But if the substance is also intentionally “treated,” then it will influence you even more. And… Continue reading Expectations of Food, Excercise and Beneficial Effects
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.
Truth in Opposites in Three Stories
I have been reading Healing Back Pain by John E Sarno, M.D. He created a diagnosis, Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS). In short, there are real pains in the body that are the result of emotional tensions, and our medical establishment misdiagnoses them, at least in part because they are uncomfortable prescribing psychological treatments for physical… Continue reading Truth in Opposites in Three Stories
Our Doubts are Traitors
“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.” —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
On Authentic Praise
Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman, in their book NurtureShock, note that children are suspicious of inauthentic praise1: NurtureShock, Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman p. 20 [↩]
Psychologist and Professor Echoes Common Misconceptions About Positive Psychology
Ask a communist to explain the free market and they will likely be wrong on some pretty substantial details. James Coyne (Clinical Psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania) is no communist, but he does have a strong aversion to positive psychology. His distaste for it is the result of his own… Continue reading Psychologist and Professor Echoes Common Misconceptions About Positive Psychology
Mind Over Genetics, and Inaccuracy in Science Journalism
I read a story about a study on a link between certain types of well-being the and expression of certain genes. It sparked my imagination— that my thoughts could alter the expression of my genes. I thought about the study all week. It was so tantalizing I had to write a story on it. I… Continue reading Mind Over Genetics, and Inaccuracy in Science Journalism