What IS
the
Psychology Arena?

Clear Your Mind

"Body and soul are not two different things,
but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing.
Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts
to link our perceptions together
by way of systematic thought."
Albert Einstein

We worry plenty about keeping our body healthy.
But what our emotions?

The LiveReal Psychology Arena is about living in the struggles, trials, and challenges of life, and keeping your sanity intact.

It's about inner freedom - from the grip of fear, anxiety, anger, depression, doubt, confusion, worry, and other emotions - and living with confidence, clarity, inner strength, and honest, no-bull, happiness.

It's the search for sanity, clarity, and peace of mind:
understanding who has it, who doesn't have it, why, and how we can find it.

It's about arming and empowering you
with practical, no-nonsense, street-smart tools
to help you find real sanity, clarity, and peace of mind
in a crazy world.

That is our goal here.

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"The soul is subject to health and disease,
just as is the body.
The health and disease of both . . .
undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs,
which are peculiar to mankind."
- Maimonides

Some Stats:

• "The fact is that today mental illness is the second leading cause of disability, the second leading cause of premature death in the United States. By any measure, we believe it's a public health crisis."
  (former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.)
• More people die from suicide than from homicide in the United States.
• (Between 1990 and 1996, 216, 631 Americans committed suicide. During the same time, there were 161,020 murders committed in the United States. Source: National Center for Health Statistics).
• Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children, persons aged 10-24. (Source:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, "Assessing Health Risk Behaviors Among Young People: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System," 1998).
• Between 1962 and 1996, the teenage suicide rate increased 155 percent. (Source: Centers for Disease Control).
• A person commits suicide about every 17 minutes in the U.S., but it is estimated that an attempt is made about once every minute. (Source: Understanding, TED Conferences Inc. 1999.)
• The World Health Organization now ranks depression as the developed world's most disabling disease for women. (World Health Organization, "The Global Burden of Disease," edited by Christopher J. L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez, 1996).
• Despite unprecedented knowledge gained in just the past three decades about

  Your LiveReal Editors searching for wisdom and smoking cigarettes . . .

  the brain and human behavior, mental health is often an afterthought . . ." (Surgeon General David Satcher, December 13th, 1999)

- these are the problems
that LiveReal is working to solve:

to take the best, most practical, no-nonsense wisdom available on the planet,
gather it in one place,
translate it into English,
and talk about what really works.

We hope you find it helpful.

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"Man would fain be great and sees that he is little;
would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable;
would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections;
would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men,
and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt.
The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him
the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable,
for he conceives a mortal hatred
against that truth
which blames him
and convinces him of his faults."
Blaise Pascal