Colors: Healing, Inspiration & More!

Colors have been used both for healing and influencing people’s moods since ancient times. Light/chromo therapy is a popular alternative healing technique that uses colors for healing. The underlying belief of this therapy is that colors have the power to influence our moods.

Though psychologists believe in the power of colors as well, they are largely skeptical about the therapeutic effects of color. Also, several research studies have suggested the affect of colors on one’s mood may be only temporary. Some studies, in fact, also attribute the affects of color-therapy to what is called the placebo effect; i.e., we believe a certain color affects us because we already associate it with some pre-determined characteristics.

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Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone

To grow in life you need to embrace and accept change constantly. The problem is most of us agree with this statement in principle, but when it comes to following it we find it difficult to get out of our comfort zone and break our established routine.

A practical example will perhaps explain my point better. Let’s say you’ve been working in a firm for five years, know everyone at your work place and have built several good personal and professional relationships. You’re good at your work and have established a routine you can follow with your eyes closed. The situation sounds comfortable, right? But the vital question here is “Are you challenging yourself enough to deliver your best constantly?”

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Adolescence: What I Need to Know

As a mother of a toddler with friends in the adolescence stage, I often wonder what is in store for me. Adolescence is the period from 10 to 20 years of age, and this period is rightly known as a transformational period as one progresses from childhood to adulthood. As a parent I would tend to describe this phase of my child’s life as difficult, overwhelming and stressful. A little knowledge of adolescent psychology might, however, make this period easier—not just me but for you and your child. This article will focus on only two elements an adolescent might go through, and as with any transitional period in a person’s life each individual will experience something unique to himself.

Sexual Awakening
The most important aspect of adolescent psychology is perhaps the sexual awakening that accompanies this phase. A lot of parents still find it difficult to deal with the subject. However, the fact is that consciousness of one’s own sexuality and a growing interest in the opposite sex is but a natural biological aspect of this phase. It had been suggested to me—long before becoming a parent—that in order to ensure your child gets the right start regarding having a healthy outlook on sex, sexual interaction, and what is truth versus fable, it is wise to have a copy of a book on sex on the book shelf—and, yes readily available for them to thumb through.

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Emotional Cheating

When we hear the word “cheating” in reference to a relationship, we often don’t even consider anything outside of a physical interaction. But emotional cheating can be as damaging to a relationship as infidelity. The problem, however, is that unlike infidelity, emotional cheating isn’t easy to catch, prove or even admit! Very often most people are not even aware of the fact they are cheating on their partner emotionally.

Emotional cheating usually starts when one develops an emotional bond with a person of the opposite sex and starts sharing more with that person than with his or her partner. These relationships may or may not lead to physical intimacy, but in either of the two cases the existing relationship of the cheater suffers.

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Using Credit Cards?

Do you find yourself stuck in a vicious cycle of debt and spending? Do you start the month with paying your debts and end up living off your credit card as the month’s end approaches? Is the word “savings” nothing but a wistful dream for you? If yes, then you need to stop using your credit card right away!

Sound extreme? Absolutely! Sound overwhelming? Correct again!

Cutting yourself off from using your credit card in one fell swoop may be difficult for some to embrace, but the root of the difficulty may not actually be the credit card itself but rather what the credit card represents for you. If you are dependent on a credit card, then take a look in other areas of your life wherein you are dependent upon someone else that perhaps isn’t a healthy dependency…

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Triggers for Reactive Depression

Some of the most recent television commercials touting anti-depressant medications ask the question, “Who does depression hurt?” Viewers can draw their own conclusions, but in reality—and in the commercials—they accurately provide the answer: Everyone.

There are many types of depression with which an individual can be diagnosed, and one particular type is reactive depression. As the name suggests, reactive depression is a psychological situation that is the result of a traumatic or painful event in a person’s life. The event could be anything from an accident to work stress, marital problems, loss of a job, chronic illness, death of a loved one, financial troubles, etc.

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