Psychology 02 (Feb 14 - Dec 25)

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The Gaslighting of the Masses

The main goal of gaslighting is to confuse, coerce and emotionally manipulate your victim into abandoning their own perception of reality and accepting whatever new “reality” you impose on them.

Ultimately, you want to completely destroy their ability to trust their own perception, emotions, reasoning and memory of historical events, and render them utterly dependent on you, to tell them what is real and what “really” happened and so on, and how they should be feeling about it.

Source: Off-Guardian

https://off-guardian.org/2022/10/17/the ... he-masses/

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Relational Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a relational quality.

It’s not about what’s happening, it’s about how we are with what’s happening.

- Sharon Salzberg, “A Guided Practice for Cultivating Attention”

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Learning to Forgive

Learning to forgive takes time, sometimes years.

So be patient as you weave a little forgiveness into your daily routine, as a way of strengthening your capacity to forgive.

- Mark Coleman, “Why Are We So Hard on Ourselves?”

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Choiceless Awareness

"The constant breaking down of patterns, norms and values, doesn't mean living without any restraint...

...but a constant awareness of this pattern formation of the mind and breaking it down, so that the mind is constantly aware, alert."

- J. Krishnamurti

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The power of colours: using psychology to improve your space

by Dennis Relojo-Howell

Source: FMT

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/categ ... our-space/

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Freedom

by J. Krishnamurti

Freedom is to be a light to oneself; then it is not an abstraction, a thing conjured by thought.

Actual freedom is freedom from dependency, attachment, from the craving for experience.

Freedom from the very structure of thought is to be a light to oneself. In this light, all action takes place and thus it is never contradictory.

Contradiction only exists when that law, light, is separate from action, when the actor is separate from action.

The ideal, the principle, is the barren movement of thought and cannot coexist with this light; one denies the other.

This light, this law, is separate from you; where the observer is, this light, this love, is not.

The structure of the observer is put together by thought, which is never new, never free.

There is no how, no system, no practice. There is only the seeing which is the doing.

You have to see, not through the eyes of another. This light, this law, is neither yours nor that of another. There is only light. This is love."

- Excerpt from The Beauty of Life

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The conscience is like a law written in the human heart.

Romans 2:15

Source: Life Changing Words

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What To Do When Feeling Down

by Tana Hoy

If you ever find yourself feeling in a slump, there are 3 things you might want to ask yourself:

1. Was I around anyone who’s negative who may have caused me to feel this way?

2. Was I somewhere where negative people were or where negative occurrences take place?

3. Was I talking to someone on the phone who has drained my energy?

Often times you may find one of these questions can be answered with a “yes”. And if you did answer one of them with a “yes”, it means you picked up negative energy from that person.

Remember, like attracts like!

Next, close your eyes, and imagine yourself standing under a waterfall of white light! Imagine the water light bathing you, and rinsing away all of your worries, tensions, fears, and negative energy.

Do this for about 4 minutes, and then open your eyes. You will find that you already feel a bit “cleaner” and lighter, and the down feeling may have become less or totally gone away!

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

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Accepting Pain

Whether the pain is physical or emotional, we long for a release.

In our attempt to get away from it, we limit our capacity to feel it, thinking that will protect us.

Instead, it limits our capacity to feel at all.

- Sebene Selassie, “Belonging in the Body”