How do we control our own thoughts? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Dr. Abbie ...

Accepting that most things are out of our control can be tough, but there's freedom and peace in letting go, Shunmyo Masuno says. Masuno is a Zen Buddhist monk and recently published a new book titled ...

Exercising control over people is neither good nor bad. The question is how one pursues and exercises it. Some roles in life, by their very nature, require a person to have control over others. A ...

When I taught “Introduction to Psychology,” we covered four main goals of psychology: to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior (Coon, Mitterer, 2013). The idea of control is ultimately self ...

James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The ...

When individuals begin paying attention to their nonverbal cues — not just those of others — they gain insight into what they’re feeling and why. Leaders who tune into their own body language first ...