The Educational Goal Of Psychology

Psychology is the study of behavior. Educational psychology is the study of teachers, students, educational curriculums and training methods. It provides a database of facts. It also develops generalizations to be applied in the classroom. Educational psychology is also called applied psychology.

The main objective of the educational psychology is to help the teachers in teaching the students.

However, there are certain benefits that you can get as a teacher:

1. You can develop certain convictions with the help of educational psychology to promote your students' mental growth, improve their learning process and develop their personalities. You can also help them in their social behaviors.

2. You can define and set-up education objectives of your students in terms of their conducts, attitudes and behaviors. When you have a clear picture of your refined goals and objectives, you can develop a befitting curriculum besides improving your teaching methods.

3. The educational psychology is not a one-way traffic. Being a teacher, you can solve your own behavioral problems as well. You can develop a certain level of sympathy and objectivity with the problems of your students to get the best results.

4. You can achieve better understanding of behaviors of your students. You can make them realize importance of social relationships and improve their social confidence, their participation in groups and cooperativeness.

5. You can analyze your collected data and use the generalized convictions in handling certain educational situations such as selection of instruction material, structure of teaching methods and development of desired outcomes. The instruction modules should be developed in a way that the instruction material and the teaching methods should not obstruct the learning process.

6. You can develop a better perspective for judging both the results of your own teachings and the educational practices of your colleagues. The educational psychology provides a background to handle intricacies involved in teaching of children. It helps you to develop a scientific, objective and problem solving mindset towards the learning process.

7. You can analyze behaviors of your students and find solid ways for normal adjustment and personality development. The educational psychology also helps you to set up and define progressive teaching education. You can develop guidance programs and functional formats for organizational and administrative matters.

8. A scientific usage of the educational psychology can also help you to solve certain clinical problems such as reading disability, stammering, chronic offensive attitudes and emotional disturbance. However, it is advisable to consult professional psychiatrist in severe cases.

Educational psychology offers ways to study student behavior and handle educational problems. Research has shown that educational psychology can help teachers achieve their educational goals.
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How To Win Friends And Influence People

Do you want to be more persuasive? Do you wish you had the "gift of the gab?"
Eloquence makes wonderful things happen. It opens mind and shifts attitudes. It also wins friends and influences people.

The "gift of the gab" is the power of personal influence. This has been highly prized throughout history. It has been the source of interesting myths because people have long considered eloquence to be magical. They believe it to be as potent as a charm. In Ireland, for example, it is believed that kissing the Blarney Stone, a part of the Blarney Castle, will give you enchanting fluency.

When you know how to say the right things at the right time, you will develop a knack for turning the tide of fate in your favor.

So, if you want to be more persuasive, rather than at a loss for words, here are 10 tips on how to develop the "gift of the gab."

By improving communication skills, you'll be able to be able to negotiate anything better. You'll be more persuasive. You'll excel at interviews. You'll sell more. You'll also be able to positively influence your boss and colleagues. And, finally, your family and friends will start to see things your way.

Learning how to be an effective communicator starts with a self-inventory.

1. What do you know?

An effective speaker is knowledgeable. They are well-educated about their favorite subject. They can tell you many interesting things about it. They command your attention because they know their subject. They can cite facts and figures. They can also hook your attention with interesting interpretations. Thus, to be persuasive, you have to have be knowledgeable.

2. Do you listen?

How do you persuade others? You get them to agree with you. To do this,
you have to know what they have on their minds. You can only find out by asking open-ended questions and carefully listening to their answers. It's almost impossible to be convincing if you have no rapport with your listeners. The best way to make others better listeners is to be a good listener yourself.

3. Do you have humility?

Natural born leaders have humility. They win friends and influence people by not assuming an imagined sense of superiority. They have a way of making people feel comfortable around them. They have humility. People open up to them and share their thoughts and feelings with them. Arrogant, smug people, on the other hand, unconsciously find many ways to make feel people resistant and uncooperative. Natural born leaders are approachable. They are not afraid to be human, even nurturing.

4. Do you maintain eye contact?

When you give someone your attention, you look into their eyes. This shows that you consider them important. They respond to your focus by returning the favor. Looking around or looking away when talking to someone tells them that you don't find them very interesting. While it is not necessary to stare someone down during a conversation, sufficient eye contact will create a sense of rapport.

5. Do you have a sense of humor?

The fastest way to win someone over is to make them laugh with you. It's almost impossible not to like, admire, and even respect someone who is humorous. It's almost impossible to disagree with someone when you feel good about something they have just said, even if the remark was just a witticism.

6. Do you like other people?

Many people do not like other people very much. They would rather interact with computers, machines, or even interesting books. They, in fact, feel uncomfortable with other people. Eloquent, persuasive people are neither preoccupied nor introverted. Instead, they are open and receptive to what other people say, think, and feel. They are approachable and friendly because they have people skills.

7. Are you "full of yourself?"

Someone who is only interested in getting other people to listen to their personal stories, anecdotes, and experiences is not persuasive. If this self-interest expands to bragging, then the only thing other people are interested in is getting away from you as quickly as possible. If they can't physically leave -- for example, you are all seated down together at a dining table -- then they mentally disengage from what you are saying.

8. Do you smile?

A smile, like eye contact, is a non-verbal, rapport-builder. You can better express what you're saying when you smile.

9. Do you know someone who can be a role model?

One of the fastest ways to move away from feeling inhibited or tongue-tied is to associate with people who are natural talkers. Listening to them, you will automatically develop a knack for building rapport. You'll also learn how to communicate effectively and engagingly.

10. Do you prepare your ideas ahead of time?

In a formal setting, such as at a job interview, a business negotiation, or a persuasive speech, knowing what you will say well ahead of time, will result in a marvelous fluency when you need to present your point of view. So, rehearse and practice what you intend to say.

These ten tips will help you learn how to win friends and influence people. They will make you warmer and more approachable. You will become someone whom others enjoy spending time with talking about things. These ten tips are the next best thing to kissing the Blarney Stone. These communication techniques will make you charming.
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The Woody Allen Quick Quips Survival Guide

How do we handle the stress of life? Zen and yoga are probably on top of the list. But what's the next best thing?

Humor. Definitely humor.

Somehow it clears the mind. It's hard to be mad or sad when you're laughing. When impending clouds of gloom are pierced with a ray of sunny wit, they appear to dissolve quicker.

But sometimes we need help in finding something funny about our dilemma.

Fortunately, to our rescue comes Woody Allen. In his movies, despite the pathos of the plots, the hopeless dilemma of his characters, and the somber notes about the human condition, the one-liners keep you light-hearted about the unfolding existential angst.

Here are some one-liners you can use when you need to add levity to a challenging situation. Tweak accordingly.

And now here's W-o-o-d-y:

Bills piling up?

Try:

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Government harassing you?

Try:

"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

Feeling persecuted by morbid thoughts?

Try:

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

Relationship falling apart?

Try:

"Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions."

Got rejected after a date?

Try:

"A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'."

Spouse driving you nuts?

Try:

"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."

Deep questions about the meaning of life?

Try:

"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Embarrassed by inappropriate laughter?

Try:

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."

Stuck listening to a religious lecture?

Try:

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."

Try:

Need to shake off some gloom?

"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."

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How To Live A Dynamic And Passionate Life

The way to be more alive is to move away from the deadening impact of apathy. Once you learn to connect with your empowering emotions, you will move in the direction of your greatest good.

How do you come alive? How do you rise above difficult circumstances or the boredom of a mundane life.

The short answer: You move away from apathy.

Apathy is a low vibration emotion. It does not serve you. It's opposite is creative dynamism.

There are several ways to move beyond this debilitating emotion:

1. Move your mind. Examine your thought process and release your inner pain that causes you to withdraw into apathy. You can do this through contemplation or journaling, or similar processes that force you to re-examine your way of thinking.

2. Move your emotions. Move through the stagnant emotion with a higher level emotion like frustration or anger, rising up the emotional scale until you can get to courage and proactivity.

3. Move your body. Exercise, get in touch with your more primal physical energy, and raise your endorphins.

If you look back on your life, you will see that those areas of your deepest failures were due to your inability to summon the energy to overcome your indifference. Jobs, relationships, and dreams collapsed because there was not enough energy to keep them alive, not enough energy to reverse adversity and adopt new strategies. In other words, apathy prevailed. When the opposite energy, interest, was high, you will see that you overcame insurmountable odds and brought into existence something that at one time seemed impossible.

Notice that when apathy prevailed, you failed and experienced a loss and when interest prevailed, you succeeded and expanded the quality of your life.

Apathy comes from the Greek word apatheia. The etymology of this word is "a" or "away from" and "pathos" or "emotions." Thus, it means a lack of feeling. It also means a lack of interest.

A person who is apathetic, then, is someone with low energy, who does not move toward creating anything useful, meaningful, or expansive. Impassiveness and indifference informs their experience.

In the days of the Roman Empire, apathy was extolled as a positive state. In Stoic philosophy, the condition of being totally free from "pathe," the emotions and passions, was seen as a very good thing because it meant relief from pain, fear, desire, and pleasure. It was a way of surviving the chaos, travail, and tragedy of life in those days.

However, one wonders, if a state of vegetative living, is truly a virtue.

The human soul, after all, comes to life when it is sparked by interest.

Interest awakens the brain to perceive, conceive, and achieve. Apathy is the antithesis of this state. It is a state of dullness and deadness. There is little value that can come from it.

Apathy is in fact an elaborate defense mechanism created by the subconscious mind to ward off pain. But since the energy of this emotion is not life-affirming, it is closer to the Freudian notion of thanatos, the death instinct, than eros, the life instinct. Someone who is apathetic is closer to the desire to be dead than the urge to be alive.

Apathy is a withdrawal from sensory experience. Like a tortoise, the psyche, withdraws into a shell of indifference.

Apathy can result in the death of individuals and cultures as a whole. When there is no interest in life, in the events of experience, in actively affirming values and creating meaning, things fall apart very quickly.

All human lives have pockets of apathy in them. These come and go, but when the inertia because overwhelming, then it can result in things necessary for well-being to fall apart.

Apathy is a reaction to trauma. It arises because some experience deadens your joy for life. Over time it creates the habit of withdrawal when things get out of control. As more and more "dead spots" fill a life, the life-force diminishes and a person not only fails to evolve but also drags down everybody around them.

Agitation, or reactivity, is not the answer to apathy, either. That is the other extreme, and equally dysfunctional and maladaptive. The answer to apathy is movement, re-inspiration of ideals, and a desire to serve all of life.

As you work on removing more and more pockets of apathy that you may fall into each day, you will find yourself coming alive with an enthusiasm for the things that interest you. The joy of life increases as your sense of apathy, an elaborate defense mechanism against noxious stimuli, decreases.

It does take will and effort to overcome habitual states of apathy, but what can be more rewarding than feeling more alive. Life, after all, despite its relentless challenges, is about rising in consciousness and feeling more alive as your awareness expands.

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Making Money Is An Inside Job

Do you have enough money to pay all your bills and expenses, with plenty left over?

If you're like most people, the answer, unfortunately, is no.

You're always a step behind and trying to catch up.

What is the psychological reason behind this phenomena? Or do you still think that they (whoever they are) are doing it to you? That somehow the problem lies outside yourself.

If you are willing to take responsibility for yourself, willing to accept that you are the one who is creating your experiences out of an infinite choice of experiences, than you may find the following idea insightful.

The reason you (and everyone else, too) has insufficient income is because you are resisting it. On the surface, this may sound absurd. After all, you are actively working 24/7 to make money. Yet on a subconscious level you associate pain to having more money.

Usually, this pain comes in three forms.

1. You have your parent's money script, which is based on some level of emotional pain associated with money.

2. You have to do something you dislike to earn enough. In other words, your job or income source is painful. You have to deal with unpleasant people or pursue uncomfortable experiences to make money.

3. In the past, you have been embarrassed by not having enough when you needed it. Thus, again you are associating pain with money.

In all three instances, money equals pain. It may be the pain of having too little, losing it, earning it, or spending it. Regardless of the source, what your subconscious mind registers is pain. Because it wants to keep you in control, feeling safe and approved, your subconscious mind then works on blocking the source of your pain. In this case, it keeps you from having more money. After all, it reasons, since money creates pain, the less you have of it, the better you will feel. The fact that this is simply not true is obvious to the conscious mind, but since it is only about 10% or less of your mind, it does not have that much of an impact. Instead your irrational moods, random feelings, and surges of debilitating apathy control you.

The result, unfortunately, is that you don't have enough money, and because you don't have enough to meet all your needs, you are not able to expand your life and express yourself in the way you really desire. You short yourself of the materials necessary to expand your consciousness, including getting better food and lodging, transportation, health care, exercise or education.

Since you resist money because it is the source of pain, you end up with money problems. Thus, in an attempt to avoid pain, you also avoid money. All this, of course, is happening at a level below conscious awareness. It is not a logical way of thinking, but, then again, logic is not the domain of the subconscious mind. It's chief concern is to help you survive--even if this means depriving you of money

Working on these three areas of emotional pain alone will do a tremendous amount to boost your income and give you a larger life. Of course, there may be other areas, depending on your personal history. However, you will only find out once you embark on a journey of personal self-discovery. You cannot heal emotional wounds that you are not yet aware of.

When you have no resistance, when making and spending money is joyful, then you will open the floodgates to bringing in a lot more money into your life.

When you clear your subconscious mind of the emotional pain associated with money, you give it permission to start making the law of attraction work for you to bring a lot more wealth into your life.

Abundance exists in our world. Walk around any big city and you will notice that you are surrounded by billions of dollars worth of real estate, vehicles, and other expressions of money. There is plenty of money, and if you feel that you can't get your hands on a larger section of the pie, it is because of some level of inner resistance.

At any point in time, you can learn a better trade, apply for a better job, or come up with a unique money-making service. If all of this seems too difficult, it is not because there is a shortage of opportunity, but because something is draining your joy around having more, being more, and experiencing more from your life.

Does money make you happy? Perhaps it does, perhaps it makes no difference. It all depends on who you are. However, when you feel happy, you will make more money. Why? Because you will communicate more, be more self-expressive and giving, serve others out of the sheer joy of it, and have more creative ideas and insights about the nature of social contribution.

What, then, is the inner block that keeps you from a joyful, abundant life, rich in contribution to yourself and the world? What is it that keeps you from feeling happy right now and seizing wonderfully uplifting money-making opportunities? It is pain, emotional pain residing in your subconscious mind. Pain that arose due to a negative experience in the past associated with money. Pain that can be eradicated with some inner work.

Life is all about choices. You can choose to heal your money wounds and move to a prosperous and deeply fulfilling life at any moment. Once you set that decision in motion, the way to fulfill your dreams will unravel itself.


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Consciousness: The Creative Force Of The Universe

When you avail yourself of the creative force of the universe, you can solve any problem, step out of any dilemma, and resolve any conflict. The creative force is invincible. It can easily cut through any Gordian knot. What is infuriating and baffling to the mind, it considers child's play.

They are many levels this creative force works on. It can be an insight that arises from the depths of consciousness in the middle of the night. It can be a law of attraction practice such as visualization, affirmation, or creating a vision board that results in serendipidity or synchronicity. It can be a heart-felt prayer.

Ultimately, this creative force is consciousness itself, also known as super consciousness, quantum consciousness, the Self, the Atman, or God.

When we call upon this creative force, we realize the presence of an unsullied and pure consciousness within us that is omnipotent. It has not been affected in the least by all the peregrinations of your life. It is undismayed by the consistency of your errors. It stands ever willing to help you. It is the epitome of love and consideration. Your limitations are not its limitations. Your imaging of what is possible are not its shortcomings.

In any situation you find yourself in, it is possible to avail yourself of this force. Once you do, you have to let go of how your solution will manifest. Clinging to an outcome, clinging to your imagined sense of control, will prevent it from acting as surely as a dam wall can hold back the mighty power of a huge lake. The solution, when it comes, is always a surprise, and, ironically, it shows up in a very natural and easy way.

The creative force of the universe is the spiritual power within and around us. How we address it is a matter of personal preference. Our mentations about it are not important.
What is important is that we ask for what we want rather than suppress it.

Therefore, choosing to align with the creative force is also choosing to align with the spiritual path.

Those who align with the spiritual part are of four types:

Those who are ill in mind or body. They have tried all the conventional cures and nothing works. If they ask, they will receive.

Those who have a social problem. They are in the wrong relationship, keeping company with those who bring out their worst, or they are unable to earn enough money to meet all their needs. The spiritual path works well for those seeking to improve the quality of their lives.

Those who understand that the spiritual path is of supreme value. They seek deeper understanding of their own real nature and seek to be in tune with the highest level of consciousness. Those who seek, will find.

Finally, there are those who have discovered that they are more than their personalities, and more than their minds and bodies. They are in a state of awareness of their real nature as unlimited consciousness. They do not seek the spiritual path, or ask anything more of life. They epitomize spiritual wisdom. Spirit is their reality.

If you visualize and affirm, you will manifest what you desire. If you pray, your prayers will be answered. However you address the creative force of the universe, it will respond to you. However you comprehend the creative force of the universe, it will reveal itself more to you. When you open yourself up to it, it will guide you; it will be your friend, your ally, your protector, and your supporter. All you have to do is ask and be open to receive and everything in your life will fall perfectly into place.
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How To Consciously Create Satisfying Life Experiences

Is it possible to consciously choose to create a more satisfying life experience?

This seems like an innocent enough question that can be answered in the affirmative.
But it is actually a trick question. The reason why most people have only a few satisfying life experiences is because they are almost completely unconscious. They are operating on automatic, on subconscious programs that run quietly in the background, dictating their every move, pulling on their emotional strings, selecting their perceptions, and organizing their experiences around past hurts, fears, and insecurities.

Ironically, they think that they are conscious. Acting out in a crazy, self- and other-destructive way is not conscious. And it is only because of acting out on our drives that we are unconscious. Someone who is conscious does not let their drives dictate their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Instead, they choose the best possible options available to them based on what they currently know. A casual survey of people around you will quickly reveal that impulsive actions are the norm. Rationality takes a back seat to innate tendencies and urges.

The way to become conscious is to become aware.

Awareness is stepping back and looking at everything for the first time. It is pulling the subjective ego state out of the equation and making an attempt to see what is the way that it is.

Awareness is not simple. It is not something that you naturally snap into. And this is why spiritual disciplines like yoga, focusing on your breath, meditation, mindfulness, and so on exist and have the power to change your life for the better. The natural state for human beings is to be hypnotized by the onslaught of conditioning that began since birth.

Thus, the natural state for human beings is to be unnatural. It is to perceive through the lens of bias. It is to hear selectively. It is to act impulsively, regardless of consequences. It is to defend the ego from all possible threats while at the same time pretending to make a show of being open-minded, rational, and even objective.

Another way of describing this phenomenon is to say that the neocortex is used much less often than the mammalian or reptilian portions of the human brain. Yet it is only the highly-developed and functional neocortex which will inform our actions to choose the best possible experiences. The emotional brain and the instinctive brain take over the show.

Thus, if we desire to have more satisfying life experiences, we have to be present to the moment. This means that we have to be aware. We have to be cognizant of the environment. And we have to recognize our own subconscious programs trying to bubble up to the surface to take over our experience.

If you are aware enough, the past does not have to equal the future. You can, in fact, choose your ideal future and find ways to reach it. However, because most people are
not aware enough that the future happens to be a constant repetition of past patterns.
The weight of past experiences, because it is unexamined and therefore unconscious, has a stronger pull on them.

The way to create awareness is to take on the practice of some psychological or spiritual discipline which will train you to think in an original and creative way. Those who choose not to examine the past are condemned to repeat it.

Cultivating awareness is not easy, but there is nothing more worthwhile. The culmination of supreme awareness is enlightenment, the uncanny ability to be in a stream of constantly unfolding satisfying experiences.

Ultimately, it is a spiritual experience to be in charge of your own mind and direct it away from unconscious acting out to conscious deliberation. The culmination of this discipline is awareness. And the gift of awareness is connection with your own divine nature.

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