How to assess the usefulness of yoga and mindfulness What is the usefulness and goodness of mindfulness and yoga for the Christian life? Are these Eastern techniques a source of lasting peace in...
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Sleeping problems and insomnia
Understanding and coping with sleep problems Sleeping problems are very frequent. Insomnia is difficulty falling or staying asleep, or waking up early. The person may not be aware of not having...
Learning to work as a team
Working in a group is not just about efficiency Learning to work as a team is very important. We remind some keys to forming a good team, which allows to make decisions and push forward a common...
Young people’s emotional health
Mental health and emotionality in times of coronavirus Covid, as it is known, has changed lives and affected young people's emotional health. Shortly before writing these lines, a young teacher...
Role of affection in life of prayer
Including emotions in prayer with God Role of affection in prayer is very important, because prayer is an activity that involves all the faculties of the person. These faculties are: intelligence,...
Depression: what to say and what not to say
Dealing with depression with optimism Depression affects almost 15% of the world's population. The recent pandemic has increased the frequency of depressions. It is key to know what to say and what...
To purify the memory
The path to happiness: forgive, forgive yourself and forget To 'purify the memory' is a felicitous expression of the theologian Jutta Burggraf and is a fundamental process in the quest for...
Accompanying psychologically wounded people
Helping people with psychological wounds As we said in the first part of the guide, we hope that these lines will help us to recognize and better understand our own way of being and that of others....
Bipolar disorder and mania
Mania is an abnormal mood state with excessively elevated and expansive, euphoric mood tone, tendency to talk rapidly, psychomotor excitement, hyper-evaluation of oneself and one's own abilities,...
Psychosis, Delusions and Hallucinations
The term psychosis includes mental disorders in which there is a profound fracture or loss of contact with reality, which prevents the person from an adequate assessment of the real world. The two...
Addictions
Addiction or dependence is the urgent need for a substance (alcohol, drugs); or to perform a certain behavior (behavioral addictions such as gambling or pornography, or internet addiction), leading...
Obsession and compulsion
Obsession is an alteration of the content of thought The thinking of an obsessive person is invaded by irrational and repetitive ideas, perceived by the subject as his own but absurd or exaggerated....
Depression and Burnout
Depression and burnout are an alteration of the mood Depression is a mood disturbance. It is an illness characterized by symptoms such as low mood, loss of interest and initiative, psychomotor...
Anxiety
Anxiety is an unpleasant and painful emotional state, with a feeling of uneasiness and threat to one's physical or moral integrity. It is presented together with insecurity, perplexity, fear before...
The Father of Your Sons
Male and female complementarity Javier Vidal-Quadras I remember, when my children were young, a friend, who only had daughters, saying to me, “From time to time, I will borrow some of...
Sex and Ethics for Happiness
Morality in the Sexual Dimension Asghar Farhadi’s The Traveler won an Oscar for the best foreign language film in 2017. The plot begins with a stranger who sexually assaults the protagonist’s wife....
God gives us 5 stars
When they saw the star, they were overjoyed (Matthew 2:10) Stars are used to distinguish the quality of hotels. Stars are used to reward good restaurants. Stars, from one to five, are used to...
Guidelines for Sexuality Education
Educating the sexual dimension to be happier We offer part of chapter VII of the document on human sexuality of the pontifical council for the family. Some ideas are highlighted for easier reading....
Has the coronavirus changed the world?
Coronavirus and the post-pandemic world: a new War Not long ago we wondered whether the coronavirus would change the world for the better. Now, with a new war raging in the heart of Europe, with...
Sexuality education and Chastity
Resources to educate in the virtue that humanizes sexuality Bibliographic suggestions and other resources for sexual education, according to the age of the persons. We point out some useful books,...
Tenet explained: psychologically and spiritually
Tenet and our longing for God Christopher Nolan's film Tenet, analyzed in its psycho-spiritual dimension, shows a human aspiration. We will not tell the details of the story, which each one has to...
Tips for mental and spiritual health
Mental and spiritual health care How to be positive and optimistic in the face of the unknow. Updated while waiting for a third winter: Will there be a new wave of coronaviruses? Uncertainty...
Educating in Virtue: the Interior Gymnasium
Building a good and happy personal life By Iván López Casanova There is a certain idea gaining currency that, in one’s personal life and especially in the education of children, the...
Antibodies against infidelity
How to be faithful in love Building antibodies against infidelity is key. On several occasions, I have received references from studies on the health benefits of fidelity and mutual love. But the...
The Lid of Discord or Harmony in marriage
My wife noticed the mess of a canister filled with paddle tennis balls with the lid off... and she closed it... By Javier Vidal-Quadras Last Sunday I went to play paddle tennis. I opened a...
Identity as the basis for human and spiritual growth
Identity for spiritual accompaniment Accompanying someone in their spiritual growth and self-awareness is exciting and difficult. In this article, we will cover some spiritual and psychological...
Emotions in human and spiritual formation
Spiritual accompaniment of the heart In the first half of this article we set out the ABC’s of spiritual guidance, and focused on the identity that sustains a person. Let’s now look at that inner...
Praying for peace with St. Thomas More
Faith and Hope of Thomas More, Patron Saint of Politicians We offer an original prayer of St. Thomas More, to pray for peace. The battle that achieves peace is the struggle of each person within...
The origins of the sexual revolution
The desire for pleasure taken to the extreme It is often said that the sexual revolution began in the second half of the 20th century. Much of the theory underlying it was already written, however,...
Faith, Spiritual and Mental Health Care
Faith Lived with Coherence Improves Health Faith is not medicine, but there are many reasons why it is useful for health: more precisely, for the unity of the different dimensions of the...