Potential Spot

Stress is something we face in our everyday life. Most of the time its good. It makes us get up on time, finish tasks before the deadline, helps us taking care of our health and our family, etc. In short, it keeps us in working order and makes us more productive. While such stressors are important and helpful for us, certain stressors if keep repeating in our lives can start causing us problems. If they are present for prolonged periods and are triggered on consistent bases, the stress can become chronic which can be very damaging to the mind and well as the body.  Among the many potential effects of repetitive thought, getting mentally lost in your depressed mood could prevent you from taking actions that could cheer you and getting mentally stuck over an argument could prevent your blood pressure from recovering afterward.  What's the difference between both these types you may ask. Well, Positive stress (Eustress) has the characteristics of motivation, excitement, focus...

In my first blog I wrote about one of the most effective methods of training the mind. It can be used on one's self as well as others. In this blog, I will be talking about the second part of it, the Punishment method. Some of the best lessons in life are results of mistakes, circumstances and changing times. Changing times (often), loss, betrayal, failure, etc, all use the punishment method. Lows in life give us anxiety, fear, sadness, all these emotions are necessary in the right proportions for development. Continuous reward or continuous punishment can destroy us in different ways. Too much reward can make people egoistic, blind in some areas, even a bit narcissistic. Excessive punishment can destroy people's confidence and results in low self-esteem, bitterness anger etc. When people act in a way that is unhealthy for themselves or you, you dont give them the response they might want and even sometimes a response they might not like that much. This way they subcons...

Everyone can be manipulated/trained using the reward system. The trick is as old as time its self. Using rewards to train behaviour to your own mind or someone else's, can be a slow process since you have to wait and observe like a hawk. Sit and watch patiently, and as soon as the people/person performs the action you want, you swoop like a hawk. The reason is that sometimes you have to create such circumstances to a very strong extent in which the reward has an effect or in which they are bound to act like that. After they behave in that way, you reward them with attention or something else valuable. The famous psychologist B.F Skinner, who had mastered this, could make pigeons wearing shorts and spinning their tiny rackets like the pros, holding them in their not so harmful breaks or wings (whichever you prefer). Well not exactly like that. They could only roll ping pong balls towards each other. But still, that is pretty impressive. I don't see any of you making pigeons pl...