Srinivasan Pillay

When jobs are scarce and hopelessness is rife, what can you do in a down economy where you cannot see any obvious options for return to work? How does brain science and psychology research help us deal with this?

Men rely on the ability to have an erection. And when that does not work, it compromises their sense of masculinity. But there are several aspects of spiritual lore that contradict our expectations here.

When we crave sex, we are often seeking an easy access solution to relieve the craving and to discharge the tensions we keep in ourselves. Yet, this discharge is illusory.

Strive for happiness without tying it into getting the things you want. Lead with happiness. If you do this, you will free up your brain to do its work. How can you do this?

Anyone can access their deepest desires and manifest them. Overcome the brain-based challenges to accessing your power.

To increase the force of the moral brain, we cannot simply bolster our conviction. Fighting the "negative" side of ourselves often gets us the very thing that we dread.

The trauma of war can cause several problems to the brain and associated functions in thinking and feeling. Here are some of the changes anticipated and what they mean for returning soldiers.

In this brief reflection, I will identify seven brain-based principles that lie behind bad habits and how we can use these principles based in the fear-brain to overcome them.

Love may not fundamentally change but our connection with it may: Regardless of Shakespeare's insistence that "love is not love when it alteration finds," this is not how people experience it.

Apart from holding on tight and just dealing with the volatility as it arises, what are some concrete steps that you can take to overcome the fears associated with market volatility?

For the brain to act on solutions, it needs a break from all the other noise that is going on. Unplugging turns the noise off, and re-charging recruits the most creative solution.

On it's own, determination can be exhausting, especially when obstacles are hitting you in the face. What are the different types of determination and how can you convert easily from one to the other?

It's not enough to know what you want to do; that the pain of action is a challenge we must take on. And that we must open our arms to the mysteries of vocation as much as the well-delineated parts.

Blocks are mind-mountains. they're signs your mind has somehow stopped charting a course that feels progressive. No matter how much you grapple with outside forces, the real demon is inside -- literally.

To truly excel at what you do, there has to always be some part of your life that is not automatic yet. When this is the case, you can practice in this zone until you achieve automaticity. Then raise the bar.

A recent study of 50-68 year old men and women in Chicago, found that being lonely at the beginning of the study correlated with increases in blood pressure two, three and four years later.

Emotions are critical for thinking, and women have an advantage if they can use this power available to them. Do divorced professional women not feel as though they have the permission to do this?

The law of Arizona accurately addresses the problems of illegal immigration but does so at the expense of legal immigrants like a live vaccine that protects society while infecting others at risk.

Talking is a balm for the lonely and afraid, but a poison for those who use it to replace the art of living.

Recent studies have shown that music may have a beneficial effect on your body's immunity and overall health.

We continue to call these disorders "eating disorders" as though the primary deficit was "eating." That's like calling a pneumonia "coughing disorder" or a tumor causing weakness "weakness disorder'.

In a world where "overcoming" is the usual approach to dealing with problems, there is little time made for proactive moves that do more for us than remove worry - they create peace.

Addictions are a double-edged sword. They offer a form of comfort that, unfortunately, does not last and often leads to pain and discomfort. If we know this, why do we repeat harmful actions over and over again.

hese are just some of the many reasons that love can turn to fear, but if we look at these more deeply, how can we think about them? And what can we do about them?