I thought that it might be interesting to explain the name of the blog to you, especially the term “autotelic” as I am sure you are all pretty much aware of the meaning of “woman”... The word comes from the Greek αὐτοτελής autotelēs, from αὐτός autos, "self" and τέλος telos, "goal and means“having a purpose in and [...]
For as long as I can remember I have been a very emotional person, always crying at movies, welling up over a sad passage in a book. Only in the last few years have I known that this has a name (because we live in a society that loves to label), hyper-sensitivity. I heard of [...]
In our contemporary world filled with visual overload our brains get quite literally overrun with information. It becomes necessary to disconnect our mind from over-solicitation. Pull the plug and go into “off” mode, where we don't have to think, worry and question. Going back to a very calm cerebral state of alpha waves. The alpha [...]
Knowing what is going to happen tomorrow, wanting to plan everything in advance, getting anxiety over not knowing, sounds like something terribly bad now that I am writing it down. Except that when it has been your daily routine and going on for years it seems perfectly normal and justifiable. At least that's what I [...]
After my article on brain unplugging I thought I would share with you the last five books that I have used to that end. They really transported me away from my present and I couldn't put them down! They are in a random order and all the links for purchase are below. All the Bright Places [...]
