Mind Over Matter

Articles examining mental phenomena like hypnosis, meditation and the subconscious mind. Topics include how these practices work and their potential effects on brain function.

Can Emotional Intelligence Really Predict Success?

People with high emotional intelligence are instinctively good at getting on with others and coping with their own emotions.

Meditation

Meditiation is a mental discipline for focussing attention, which can have many beneficial effect on mental and physical health and even seems to alter.

Paranormal Brain Skills

Research has linked some paranormal experiences to geomagnetic field shifts, infrasound and brain events similar to epilepsy.

Telekinesis

People have long claimed to move objects with their minds, but science remains skeptical about whether telekinesis actually exists.

Telepathy

Some people believe that thoughts can be transferred between minds, and point to remarkable personal incidents, but experimental evidence is not conclusive.

Using Your Subconscious Mind

Although claims about subliminal skill improvement were disappointing, sights, sounds and smells may have a powerful priming effect on our subconscious.

What Hypnosis Can Do for Your Brain

Hypnosis is a way of bypassing the conscious mind and accessing the subconscious. It can be used therapeutically by psychistrists.

What Is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis has a long history. People in a trance are very suggestible, and there are many different methods of hypnotic trance induction.