Pos-pandemic society

Pos-pandemic society

A year and a half ago, at the very beginning of the Corona crisis, our lucid mind made us believe that there were only ways out: infection or vaccination. In the summer of 2021, we will be close to this outcome and/or the herd’s immunity, at least in countries...
Adaptation and future

Adaptation and future

At the beginning of 2020, no one would have dreamed of how we live today. Right now we cannot enjoy most of our hobbies, we must meet as few people as possible and we are obliged to cover our nose and mouth with masks, we look forward to our turn in vaccination and we...
The fool

The fool

In the early summer of 1919, American auto magnate Henry Ford was on trial. It was not about his famous car, the Ford Model T, but about an editorial that appeared in the Chicago Tribune. The editors described Ford as an “ignorant idealist” and an...

The cis scam

I’ve always loved comic books. I am sure that the constant presence of HQ’s in my life, helped me to be a person with more clarity and more criticism about life. I started early, with the classic Monica’s Gang and Disney Comics. In pre-adolescence, in the...
The fool

Guilty and Brasilian moral

I write here, with great affection for all the patients I attended in my career as a psychologist. I write here to all my friends and friends of friends. I write here for my daughter, my mother, and my wife. I am disgusted and the text is long and loaded. The...
Re-start

Re-start

For some years now, thanks to the self-help literature, we have the impression that starting over is the first step after failure. But this is a slightly distorted perception. Self-help literature has the social function of helping to rewrite difficult situations so...
Destiny is inexorable

Destiny is inexorable

I love to start my posts remembering that life is not easy. And, I know clearly, it is not easy for anyone. Life is not easy Thus, I spent 17 years sitting in a psychology practice, attending between 20 and 35 hours a week, which means more or less 20 to 35 patients....
Loneliness

Loneliness

Loneliness is one of the most desperate feelings that a human being can experience. Like hunger, thirst and the inability to sleep, loneliness can lead to suffering so profound that it borders on or induces madness. It can be manifested by the absence of figures...
Uma coisa de cada vez

Uma coisa de cada vez

Já escrevi dezenas de vezes nesse blog: a vida é sofrimento. Não é uma questão de pessimismo ou otimismo, é uma questão de realidade. O caminho natural da vida é a senescência do corpo e da mente. Se nada for feito em contrário, esse efeito se dá em 40 dias por falta...
Uma coisa de cada vez

One thing

I’ve written dozens of times on this blog, life is suffering. It is not a matter of pessimism or optimism, it is a matter of reality. The natural way of life is the senescence of body and mind. If nothing is done to the contrary, this effect occurs in 40 days...
Connaturalis – da flor à vida

Connaturalis – da flor à vida

Nesta semana, na verdade no dia 30.01.2020, tive uma excelente notícia. Todos que acompanham esse meu blog ou outros, sabem o quanto eu valorizo o empreendedorismo. O quanto eu valorizo essa força, esse movimento individual em busca de espaços de desenvolvimento e de...
Connaturalis – da flor à vida

Connaturalis

This week, actually on January 30, 2020, I had excellent news. Everyone who follows this blog of mine or others knows how much I value entrepreneurship. How much I value this strength, this individual movement in search of spaces for development and commercialization...
Development and love

Development and love

Personal development is today a key concept in maintaining human life. I have already written in other posts about recognizing personal boundaries, about the process of change, about the feeling of being in constant evolution. All of these concepts are tied to...
Fear, potency, and reaction

Fear, potency, and reaction

While I was sitting in my office chair, I learned never to believe in cowardice. I listened to life reports for 17 years, every hour, a new account of another life. Never in those 17 years have I met a coward or a weak person in my psychology office. This made it...
Gratitude about life

Gratitude about life

One of the unmissable experiences for life is gratitude. She is really well into fashion, has space in TED, in churches and even who would say, in psychology! It does not derive from the cheap view of the “half-full or half-empty glass,” but from the...
Why is it so hard to change?

Why is it so hard to change?

Necessity is the mother of creation. It is not known today that necessity is the mother of power and constructive capacity. The distance between having and wanting is so great, and what makes it so great is precisely the absence of need that does not always accompany...
Rejection and affective neediness

Rejection and affective neediness

Feeling different is a lifelong thing. Feeling rejected is likely to happen throughout life. Feeling alone is something that can happen throughout life. But feeling permanently different, rejected, and alone is a sign that something in your set of beliefs about...
Gratitude about life

Eating and praying

Several religions, including Catholicism, Hinduism, and Umbanda, recognize in food and food a spiritual relationship and communion with life, with equals and with the divine. In Umbanda as in Candomblé, it is understood that in the relationship of plants and animals...
Reading and mind

Reading and mind

Read this post with this playlist in youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W4vrgm_5oM Reading has always been the biggest of my hobbies. I fish, photograph, track, collect MTG cards, but reading, comics, books, booklets, handouts, websites, leaflets … has always...
Rejection and affective neediness

Observations about coaching

We pass through life and, as you may have read in other posts, learns how to solve life’s problems or events by developing a repertoire that, with greater or less assertiveness, allows us to continue playing the game of life. Anyway, everyone has some experience...
To live: complexities and successes!!

To live: complexities and successes!!

Life is a very dop process and living is very cool !!! Often, to live is inexplicable, but it is always very dop and very cool !!! Life is not a watertight process. Although it has a beginning, middle, and end, life is a continuous, fluid and unpredictable process (we...

Jumping out of the window

Jumping out of the window, facing the pavement in front of the building, is more than a desperate act. In fact, it is much more than a call for help. In fact, it is much, much more than being alone, helpless, unloved or anything that counts. Think about a fire in your...

Management of life by fear

Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, 400 years before Christ was the founder of Buddhism. I do not know much about the religion he has left, beyond what I need for certain understandings of contemporary philosophy. But, I find it interesting to start this post, to know...

Love

Love is a trap. In the way we live it in today, it was invented by social networks. Fast, intense, highly addictive and fleeting, it seems like a crack doze, as soon as its intense effect passes, the emptiness and necessity returns. But it was not always that way....

Cognitive conceptualization

leia aqui em português. The cognitive conceptualization, or cognitive map, is an evaluation tool focused on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is a strategy of understanding the cognitive processes, which allows, in an objective, organized and didactic way, to define...

Grudge, hatred, and sorrow

Frustration, fear, anger and sadness are emotions with organic bases so strong that, around the planet, almost all mammals are able to feel them in a similar way to what we experience. These primary emotions and their opposites, satisfaction, trust, love and joy, also...

Mothers day

Leia em português. We joke in psychology, that everything is always the mother’s fault. And it is! She is the first safe place between the newly created biological being and the surrounding environment. Being then, necessarily, the intermediary of the relation...

Peace can not be bought with money

Peace is not a bargaining chip. So, it does not have its coming guaranteed after the war, and after the death, no one knows. But in contemporary times, peace can be easily understood as the opposite of affliction. The negative mental restlessness that comes with two...

Living in the ocean of distortions

Leia aqui em português Something of fate condemns us to the burden or the prize of being who we are. And, in case you think it’s a burden, you’re thinking wrong. But if you think it’s a prize, you are not very good form in the head also. Remember,...

Thoughts, feelings and, realities

An old argument among philosophers is the question between the rational world and the sensible world. The fight that has lasted for almost 2 millennia without reaching a conclusion of which of the two should be taken as the most reliable source for the understanding...

Consciousness and transformation

We always imagine that to change is not easy. But change is a universal constant, everything is in motion, from a relative point of view. That means, that everything changes all the time, impermanence is a law like gravity. Therefore, that change is not only easy, as...

About living and diying

Life has eventualities in every corner. Unexpected events to which we are subject due to the total randomness of their events. We always imagine control and prevention factors that can or could exist, either to avoid them, to soften or to remedy them. But...

About gods and managers

The beginning of the 21st century shows us, professional executives, leaders or managers, the importance and the need of to understand new technologies, models and organizational structures, quality management models, outsourcing, empowerment, benchmarking,...

Never Surrender

Today, doesn´t metter how late you think it is, it is NEVER TOO LATE! Follow the link to see in the infographic, that live is too long and opportunities will ever be there to us! https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/92/86/cd928677c599befec4312d7b7414968f.jpg Compartilhe...

Love and value

leia aqui em português! Two questions are always present in the practice of clinical psychology more than others: love and money. No, it is not to create a novel mood. It is real, love (or the feeling of being loved) and money (with the freedom and success that it...
Control and uncertainty

Control and uncertainty

Our brain understands the information of the environment as stimuli: some constants and other variables. The autonomous brain recognizes these two differences and deals well with them. Constant stimuli, those that repeat completely or partially in a similar within a...

Memória, prazer e medo

A relação entre atenção, memória e afeto é, há tempos, muito bem conhecida da neuropsicologia. A relação funciona mais ou menos assim: o evento e o desencadeamento emocional derivado dele, permitem ao indivíduo, de acordo com a variação da intensidade emocional, fixar...

Memory, pleasure, and fear

The relationship between attention, memory, and affection has long been well known in neuropsychology. The relationship works more or less like this: the event and the emotional triggering from it, allow the individual, according to the variation of emotional...

The rule of 20%

The reason, discussion, and truth There is almost a consensus in the sciences of today: Reality is a CULTURAL NEURO convention. That is, an agreement, almost collective, of half terms of what the brains are producing for this world. The perception of reality,...

The good, the evil and Batman

I always liked comics. Batman has always been my favorite superhero. I also liked Spider-Man, Wolverine, and The Punisher. As a consequence, he ended up reading the parallel stories that comic books comic and Grafic Novels. So I was aware of what was going on in the...