A plethora of studies speak to how music travels through neural pathways and activates various sections of the brain. Whether it is a pleasurable melody or engaging rhythm, there is a correlated response that releases endogenous opioids such as dopamine … Continue reading Music Therapy For Wellness
Aspirational identities are an important component of individuals’ self-stories, and can have far-reaching consequences in the present. In the case of these communities, the process of divination—or becoming “like God”—structures and gives meaning to the past and present, as well … Continue reading Aspirational Identities
While children’s spirituality develops in stages, their engagement with it and expression of it in the modern secular world begins to decline in the early teenage years as it becomes “obscured, overlaid or even repressed by socially constructed processes” that … Continue reading Spiritual Manifestations in Children
To avoid deceiving ourselves about whether we have actually realized some liberating truth, it is advised that we utilize the criteria of peace, assurance, gratitude and love to determine the validity of our thoughts. This means that unless we can … Continue reading Continuous Self-Improvement
Spiritual growth and refinement of the self is one long journey. What matters is “the right of every individual to work out his own philosophy of life to find his personal niche in creation.” The cognitive self is a crucial … Continue reading Self is a Reflexive Project
No difference of rank, position, or birth, is so great as the gulf that separates the countless millions who use their head only in the service of their belly, in other words, look upon it as an instrument of the … Continue reading Noteworthy quotes from the works of Arthur Schopenhauer
Research on religious identity should consider the content and consequences of individual’s future self-concepts, the dynamics through which possible identities (both desired and feared) are constructed and transmitted, as well as when, where, and why these imagined futures are brought … Continue reading Religions and Future Self
What would be most beneficial to the seeker is a first level concept of spiritual growth that is more formal and more relativizing, thus allowing room for all aspects of spiritual growth and taking seriously the various concepts of spiritual … Continue reading Fostering Personal growth via Spirituality
In the context of Transformational Leadership, lets articulate four premises of leadership for social change: • Leadership is concerned with fostering change in contrast to the notion of management which suggests preservation or maintenance • Leadership is inherently value-based since … Continue reading Transformational Leadership
To reveal the more general nature of things, it is necessary for philosophy to analyze, overcome and eliminate the narrow limits of specific science, which is philosophy’s criticism on science. What is achieved on the basis of this criticism is … Continue reading Philosophy vs Science
