The worst scars are in the mind: psychological torture Torture often includes methods that entail severe psychological distress and profoundly disrupt the senses and personality. This article describes how psychological methods which do not amount to ill-treatment when considered in isolation can amount to torture through their accumulation over time and their integration into the whole torture process. Dr Hernán Reyes, MD, of the ICRC’s Assistance Division, is a specialist on medical aspects of detention and has visited numerous detention centres around the world. Abstract Torture during interrogation often includes methods that do not physically assault the body or cause actual physical pain – and yet entail severe psychological pain and suffering and profoundly disrupt the senses and personality.
Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do LifeHack | Mentally strong people have healthy habits. They manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in ways that set them up for success in life. Check out these things that mentally strong people don’t do so that you too can become more mentally strong. 1. Mentally strong people don’t sit around feeling sorry about their circumstances or how others have treated them. 2. They don’t allow others to control them, and they don’t give someone else power over them. 3. Mentally strong people don’t try to avoid change. 4. You won’t hear a mentally strong person complaining over lost luggage or traffic jams. 5. Mentally strong people recognize that they don’t need to please everyone all the time. 6. They don’t take reckless or foolish risks, but don’t mind taking calculated risks. You may be interested in this too: 14 Things Positive People Don’t Do 7. Mentally strong people don’t waste time dwelling on the past and wishing things could be different. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Amy Morin
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling The Healing Power of Your Hands Did you know that your hands hold an innate healing power that have been used for centuries? Mudras are positions of the hands that are said to influence the energy of your physical, emotional and spiritual body. Mudras have been used in the East for thousands of years and were practiced by many spiritual leaders including Buddha. Today, Mudras are still used in Yoga and meditation. Sometimes we may subconsciously place our hands into Mudra positions without even knowing it and other times we can use them to help channel and stimulate healing. There are hundreds of Mudras but here are some of the most common: 1.) The tip of the index finger touches the tip of the thumb while the other fingers remain straight. Benefits: Enhances knowledge, stimulates the pituitary and endocrine glands, increases memory, helps meditation, prevents insomnia, can boost mood and bring clarity. Practice: Any time while sitting, standing or lying in bed. 2.) Practice: Any time. 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.) Tanaaz
21 Things To Do When You're Feeling Blue Dealing With Someone Who Won't Stop Talking CREATISTA/Shutterstock One day recently Jean*, a young professional woman, started her session with me by ranting about one of her co-workers. “The man does not stop talking,” she said. “Today he asked me how my weekend went, and before I could utter a word he started telling me about everything he had done.” We all know someone like this man—people who talk without listening, who seem to think that what they have to say is as fascinating to everyone else as it is to them, and who don’t seem to understand that listening is an important part of communicating and connecting to others. What makes these people tick? Talking is part of what we humans do. But people who talk too much don’t seem to get this balance. “Listening requires complex auditory processing,” according to Daniel P. This is what happened with Max*, a smart, articulate man with two young children. I asked Max if he thought that might be part of the problem that had led his wife to ask for a divorce.
The Elmore Leonard Literary Arts and Film Festival Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle from the New York Times, Writers on Writing Series. By ELMORE LEONARD These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story. 1. 2. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword. There is a prologue in John Steinbeck’s "Sweet Thursday," but it’s O.K. because a character in the book makes the point of what my rules are all about. 3. The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. 4. . . . he admonished gravely. 5. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. 6. This rule doesn’t require an explanation. 7. Once you start spelling words in dialogue phonetically and loading the page with apostrophes, you won’t be able to stop. 8. Which Steinbeck covered. 9. 10.
Your Mind & Body Are Not Separate For more: This isn’t news to anyone, right? We talk about feeling things in “our guts.” We talk about a lump in our throat when we are upset. Our daily language illustrates this, but how often do we ignore what our bodies are telling us? This graphic is one depiction of some of the places in our bodies that emotions get stuck or stored. While I don’t believe that every disease and ailment is a result of emotional distress, it’s always worth taking a second look at what’s going on internally when you notice chronic pain patterns in your body. A Relephant Read:> “Enlightenment is Simple: the Synchronization of Body, Speech & Mind, Harnessed to the Present Moment.”> Or, What does your Body look like when it feels these 14 basic Emotions? Like elephant health & wellness on Facebook. About Kate Bartolotta Kate Bartolotta is a wellness cheerleader, yogini storyteller, and self-care maven.
Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion Color is an essential part of how we experience the world, both biologically and culturally. One of the earliest formal explorations of color theory came from an unlikely source — the German poet, artist, and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who in 1810 published Theory of Colors (public library; public domain), his treatise on the nature, function, and psychology of colors. Though the work was dismissed by a large portion of the scientific community, it remained of intense interest to a cohort of prominent philosophers and physicists, including Arthur Schopenhauer, Kurt Gödel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of Goethe’s most radical points was a refutation of Newton’s ideas about the color spectrum, suggesting instead that darkness is an active ingredient rather than the mere passive absence of light. YELLOWThis is the color nearest the light. It appears on the slightest mitigation of light, whether by semi-transparent mediums or faint reflection from white surfaces.
Is This Title O.K.? Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. Beginning – check. Middle – check. Sometimes I think I am going to have to give up and employ one of those companies that do nothing but invent names for things. The ancients felt the same way. Meanwhile, thinking pre-posthumously, how do they do it? One option is to steal someone’s else title. Gabriel García Márquez is, of course, the author of one of the great titles, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Walter Green Consider these two candidates for standout title of the 20th century. “Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” by T. “Seven Types of Ambiguity,” by William Empson, is admittedly more obscure, unless you happen to be into critical theory. Notice the resemblance. See how this formula also applies to 100 + YEARS + OF + SOLITUDE? I am not necessarily recommending this as an infallible system, but it’s probably worth considering if you’re stuck. Now we come to the negatives. It could have started with the success of “Flaubert’s Parrot.”
The Art of Wisdom and the Psychology of How We Use Categories, Frames, and Stories to Make Sense of the World by Maria Popova The psychology of how we use frames, categories, and storytelling to make sense of the world. “It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being,” Isaac Asimov told Bill Moyers in their magnificent 1988 conversation on science and religion. And yet ours is a culture that frequently turns to rigid external rules — be they of religion or of legislature or of social conduct — as a substitute for the inner moral compass that a truly “decent human being” uses to steer behavior. So what can we do, as a society and as individual humans aspiring to be good, to cultivate that deeper sense of right and wrong, with all its contextual fuzziness and situational fluidity? Schwartz and Sharpe write: External rules, while helpful in other regards, can’t instill in us true telos. People who are practically wise understand the telos of being a friend or a parent or a doctor and are motivated to pursue this aim. The world is gray.