thoughts

Empowering your mind for personal growth involves unlocking your cognitive capacity and fostering a positive mindset.

Mentalisation is a psychological ability that influences our capacity to understand and process our own and others’ mental and emotional states.

Being optimistic feels good and boosts your confidence and hope for the future, so you feel excited about it rather than dreading it.

There are times when we worry too much even though it’s unnecessary for a particular situation.

When we’re dealing with the symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress, we tend to know what’s going to help us to feel better.

OCD is a condition that causes repeated unwanted thoughts or sensations (obsessions) or the urge to do something over and over again (compulsions).

Being kind can have more effects than you realise.

Instinct is one knows something about somebody without knowing.

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals.

I am passionate about how we, typical of us human beings, can be irrational.

Even if we know and understand the neuroscience behind them, we’ll still have irrational thoughts.

The ability of people with autism to read what someone is feeling or thinking by looking at their eyes and face may have been underestimated.

Mindfulness – as practiced by concentrating deeply on every sensation in the here and now – is well-known and beneficial (albeit controversial).

Mindfulness meditation has a bad reputation – with good reason.

A future ‘human brain/cloud interface’ will give people instant access to vast knowledge via thought alone, experts predict.