Spiders, snakes, heights, confined spaces, flying, thunderstorms or even public speaking — everyone knows someone who has a phobia. Maybe you're a sufferer yourself. TheCollins English Dictionarydefines a phobia as an 'abnormal, intense and irrational fear of a given situation, organism or object'. Typical symptoms include dizziness, heart palpitations and a sense of terror. When the stimulus appears — sometimes it only needs to be thought of — the person...

No matter what you think! This is GOOD 4 U.
By Prof. Hasan Yahya

Forget the writer level of education, whither that level was very high, or very low, or between or whither he gives you an advice, or he plays with your mind forget that! It makes sense to you when you read it. That's all!. A philosopher is not a philosopher if he did not think deeply.
To simplify this for you, let's say you are with your girlfriend for example, or wife, or sister, or...

Sometimes even when we don't like the way things are, we still feel some sense of security in the 'known', and thus we react with fear and hostility when we sense something is changing around us. When someone close to us begins to consciously change, we can feel threatened, and it brings out some deep insecurities we may not be...

Feeling sad? Grieving a loss? Anticipating a death? Sit yourself down, give yourself a hug and let the tears and healing begin.

Shedding tears is a uniquely human response to emotional distress, sadness being the most typical emotion leading to tears. And sadness is the emotion almost universally associated with grief.

Unfortunately, people are often afraid of crying. Among men in many Western societies, crying is seen as a sign of weakness. Boys are told, "Big boys...

Fear is good but only when it is necessary.

There are situations when the mind triggers fear into the heart to defend the body.  Millions of years of evolution have given human automatic responses to certain situations. Fear of height is a good example of this. Studies have found that the fear of height is in-built in humans. Imagine if our ancestors had no sense of fear while surviving while out in the open fields of east Africa millenniums ago. They would have ended up as...

Success is in the blood. There are men whom fate can never keep down they march forward in a jaunty manner, and take by divine right the best of everything that the earth affords. But their success is not attained by means of the Samuel Smiles-Connecticut policy. They do not lie in wait, nor scheme, nor fawn, nor seek to adapt their sails to catch the breeze of popular favor. Still, they are ever alert and alive to any good that may come their way, and when it comes they simply...

I bet we all have taken those personality tests in school or for a prospective employer that is supposed to help us, and them, to better understand our natural tendencies and strengths. It can be valuable and fun information to have but kind of dry and impractical.

What do you really take away from those tests that you can apply and use to improve your quality of life? A lot of the time I learn and judge those parts of myself as things I wish I could change. I often look at the...

Psychology is the study of human behavior. It seeks to establish why people behave the way they do in any given circumstance. The discipline covers a very wide range of material and is divided into many categories. For example, there are psychology studies that deal with medicine, environment, employment, human growth and development, among others.  For one to be able to effectively study psychology, there are a few basic guidelines that should be applied.

To begin with,...

Opposites attract is a law of attraction, at least where electromagnetism is concerned. But are there laws about attraction between two people? ìIn a world that is full of strangersî as a line in a famous song of the 1980's goes, is there a clear set of rules that allows two people to fall for each other?

Is attraction a matter of chemistry?

Maybe. According to scientists, the attraction between animals of the opposite sex is all about chemicals called...

Death is not something that many people want to think about. However, death is a part of living a human life. At least, our current level of science and technology acknowledges that death is inevitable.

Is death something to be afraid of or is death something to look forward to? The answer may depend on who you talk to.

Aside from the obvious religious answers, what body of information exists that can help us to approach this question with some degree of logical thinking?...