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Fear of Rejection is the major issue facing mission today, but this is nothing new. Rejection happened to Jesus when people heard him teaching one day. On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does […]
Professor Justin Barrett is Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development, Thrive Professor of Developmental Science, and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology quoted John Calvin, “There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity. This we take to be beyond controversy. To prevent anyone […]
Irene Tracey is the Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetic Science and Director of Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB). Irene is a leading expert on using neuroimaging to study pain processing in the human brain. Professor Tracey demonstrates through a series of fMRI experiments that pain is not a physical entity […]
What we call the Placebo and Nocebo effects are simply scientific explanations for the healing effect or lack of it. Great doctors deal with the concerns that a patient has. A patient has a notion of what might be wrong with them, something that they are particularly scared about it. Great doctors address the issue […]
When Social Psychologist Roy Baumeister monitored workers in Germany, he was surprised to find that people spent between 3 and 4 hours per day resisting desires, the most common of which were urges to eat, sleep, and take a break from work. But Baumeister also found that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting […]
Why do we care so much about being accepted? The reason is that the brain does not differentiate social pain from physical pain. We experience pain when we do not have enough food we call it hunger, we experience pain when we don’t have enough liquid – we call it thirst, we experience pain when […]
She broke my heart, He hurt my feelings, It was like being punched in the gut. We don’t expect someone with a broken leg to just get over it. The conscious distress of physical pain motivates us to get our leg seen to, the pain of social exclusion motivates us to work to reconnect to […]
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