The School of Life | Your Path to Mental Wellbeing
WEBThe School of Life is holding a series of 4-day retreats designed to help you heal from emotional challenges in an atmosphere of friendship, learning and discovery. Our group therapy sessions run online every week and are a chance to talk to other participants at The School of Life – in the presence of a therapist-moderator – about whatever ...
The Psychology of Cross-Dressing - The School of Life
WEBCross-dressing (and here we refer particularly to men dressing up as women) has tended to have a bad reputation. The idea of a man taking pleasure in putting on a pair of stockings has traditionally been seen as laughable, pitiful – and plain sinister. It was usually assumed that a marriage would almost certainly break up the day a wife found ...
About Us - The School of Life
WEBAbout Us. We are a passionate group of people on a mission to bring about healing, growth, calm and self-understanding. We derive our ideas from psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy, art and culture. As our name – The School of Life – suggests, we are here to teach people how life can be lived and what can make it truly worthwhile ...
How to Be Warm - The School of Life
WEBHow to Be Warm. While politeness is of course always preferable to rudeness, there are ways of being polite that badly miss the mark and can leave us feeling oddly detached and dissatisfied. Picture the person who ends up, despite their best efforts, seeming what we can call coldly polite. They may be extremely keen to please those they are ...
What Is the Meaning of Life? - The School of Life
WEBArmed with such ideas, we can move towards defining nothing less than the meaning of life. The meaning of life is to pursue human flourishing through communication, understanding and service. 3. A Meaningful Life. In order to have meaningful lives, we can also see that certain things will need to be in play.
Online Psychotherapy - The School of Life
WEBOnline psychotherapy at The School of Life is a truly global service which assists clients from over 40 countries. Our highly skilled and qualified practitioners help you get to the root of issues and will give you new clarity on your past and your present. Our online psychotherapists use the ideas of The School of Life – found in our YouTube ...
The Definition of Love - The School of Life
WEBHere would be seven possible ingredients in Love redefined: CHARITY. Love means, above anything else, benevolence and gentleness towards what is failed, disgraced, broken, unappealing, angry and foul in other people and in ourselves. Love isn’t about an admiration for strength, it’s about directing sympathy in a most unexpected direction ...
Wu Wei – Doing Nothing 無爲 - The School of Life
WEBWu wei means – in Chinese – non-doing or ‘doing nothing’. It sounds like a pleasant invitation to relax or worse, fall into laziness or apathy. Yet this concept is key to the noblest kind of action according to the philosophy of Daoism – and is at the heart of what it means to follow Dao or The Way. According to the central text of ...
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person Book | The School of Life
WEBWhy You Will Marry the Wrong Person. A collection of essays extended from The New York Times' most-read article of 2016. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We don’t expect bliss every day. The fault isn’t entirely our own; it has to do with the devilish truth that anyone we’re liable to meet is going to ...
Know Yourself — Socrates and How to Develop Self-Knowledge
WEBIn Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates famously declared that the unexamined life was not worth living. Asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: ‘ Know yourself.’. Knowing yourself has extraordinary prestige in our culture. It has been framed as quite literally the meaning of life.
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