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Why Our Unconscious Rules Us and What to Do About It - The Huffington Post. One of the common denominators of people who enter therapy is the feeling of being "stuck" in some way.

Why Our Unconscious Rules Us and What to Do About It - The Huffington Post

Often there is the feeling of not being able to break out of a set of behaviors, feelings or thoughts. People know "it should be different," but can't seem to get things to really change for themselves. Their moods may come and go, but somehow they keep slipping back into old patterns. Regardless of the number of accomplishments, feelings of not being good enough still arise.

Regardless of how spiritual, feelings of anxiety emerge. The experiences we've had in life are stored in networks of brain cells called neurons. The memories stored in our brain are either processed or unprocessed. That is what the brain is geared to do: make the appropriate connections, "digest" the experience and store it in memory.

What's important here is that just the sight of the person can trigger the feelings, even years later, whether I consciously remember the fight or not. References: Brown, K. THE DRUG DOES WORK - StumbleUpon. Buy a bottle of perfume and you could pay as much for its advertising as its contents.

THE DRUG DOES WORK - StumbleUpon

The Sceptical Shopper sniffs out some niche alternatives ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January/February 2012 Wearing scent is one of life’s pleasures. Humans have been dousing themselves in concoctions of olfactive molecules since at least the Bronze Age, and any habit that persistent has to have something going for it. Yet it does seem odd that most of the time we mask our own, genetically unique smell with others so widely available you can catch a whiff of them in cities across the planet: Opium on the streets of Barcelona, Eternity in Istanbul. Heavily advertised, widely worn perfumes can smell good. How to Tell Someone, You Love Them. How to Travel Full-Time for $17,000 a Year (or Less!) Wise Bread Picks For the last five years, I've been traveling the world full-time, and for less money than I've ever spent (and I'd wager less money than most people would spend) to live in one place.

How to Travel Full-Time for $17,000 a Year (or Less!)

My worldly possessions fit into one bag (just larger than carry-on size) and a backpack containing my laptop and computer gear. This small entourage (weighing less than 45 pounds in total) comes with me as I wander around the world, sometimes quickly, but mostly slowly. In 2011 alone, I traversed 13 countries and over 45,360 miles. Sounds pretty expensive, huh? What if I told you it wasn't? Believe it. How to Keep Your Travel Costs Low Of course, I could travel for way more than $17,000/year. Here are a few of my secrets.

Don't Pay for Accommodations In the entire year of 2011, I paid $173 for accommodation. Problem With Procrastination? Try Doing Nothing. Just about anyone who has ever put off a troublesome task is familiar with one of my Secrets of Adulthood: Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Problem With Procrastination? Try Doing Nothing

When there’s some chore you just don’t want to tackle, every other chore seems alluring. As a friend told me, “My apartment is never cleaner than when I have a writing assignment due.” In Roy Baumeister and John Tierney’s fascinating book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, they suggest the “Nothing Alternative” to this problem. The Fun Theory - StumbleUpon. Some Hip-Hop To Chill Out To&8230; Pt. II. Top 10 Quotes For Fitness Motivation.

In the last couple years, I compiled what I believe are the top 10 fitness motivation quotes to help motivate you to exercise, eat well, and improve your health. I think they are very powerful and thought provoking, so I hope you enjoy them: Master Your Mindset… 1) “The greatest discovery of my generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind” -William James 2) “He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty” -Lao Tsu 3) “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference” -Winston Churchill 4) “That which holds the attention determines the action” -William James.

30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself - StumbleUpon. 100 Tips About Life, People, and Happiness - StumbleUpon. Thinks Big: "It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine" - Daniel Gilbert. Russian scientists reach isolated subglacial lake. A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday.

Russian scientists reach isolated subglacial lake

Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica and scientists want to study its eco-system which has been isolated for hundreds of thousands of years under the ice in the hope of finding previously unknown microbiological life forms. "Our scientists completed drilling at a depth of 3,768 metres and reached the surface of the subglacial lake," an unnamed source told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

Sergei Lesenkov, spokesman for the Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Research Institute, told AFP in Moscow that there was the possibility of a "fundamental scientific development". Lesenkov said that analysis of the composition of gas bubbles discovered in the ice above the lake could help climate change research. Explore further: Asian air pollution affect Pacific Ocean storms. 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself - StumbleUpon.