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What Magicians Can Teach Us About The Art Of Manipulation

Olson (a magician) explained that we often feel like we’re not being manipulated even when our choices are in fact being influenced by outside forces. “The main conclusion that we can draw from this research… is that this feeling of a free choice might be more of a feeling that we have and not something …

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In A Relationship With A Highly Sensitive Person? Here’s What You Need To Know

Lindsay Holmes writes: Let’s be honest: relationships are complex, no matter what kind of personality you have. And some truths are universal, like fighting is never fun. Romantic gestures are usually appreciated. Communication is definitely valued. Compromise isn’t always easy. But a lot of these nuances are only heightened if you’re of a more sensitive …

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13 Things to Never Say to People Who Suffer From Chronic Pain

Kat Gal WRITES: Chronic pain is something I’ve lived for years, chronic headaches, chronic hip pains and related chronic back pain, chronic neck aches and chronic muscle pain… not to mention the emotional pain that came with it. I’ve healed from my non-stop, 24/7 chronic headaches and running happily without chronic hip pains again. I …

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Susan Stanton Rotman on “Discernment, Imagination & Coming of Age”

From her blog: “Learning to trust the imagination is based upon using it and finding out how it can help you…Literal-mindedness will not help you here. Engage with the metaphor, the image, the feeling, the inkling that is just within your grasp. Use your subtle senses, not your everyday senses. Follow the story or scenario …

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Get Off The Computer And Complete This Italian Teacher’s Summer Assignment. You Won’t Regret It.

A summer homework list assigned by Cesare Catà of Don Bosco High School in Fermo, a small town on the Adriatic Sea in northeastern Italy, is currently going viral across that country. Instead of giving his students required reading assignments, Catà gave them a prescription for how to live an inspired life, telling them that …

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