Finding Your Light

Welcome to Finding Your Light.This podcast will include different topics where I delve deeper into the psychology and science behind them and make them understandable. I hope you will learn a lot from what will be discussed and help broaden your perspective on things. Today's episode is about meditation where I discuss the benefits of implementing it. I also take you through a short meditation to give you a sense of what it is and infusing some peace into your day. I will be talking about my 30 day meditation challenge and tell you what I discovered along this journey.I hope you enjoyed this episode and found it useful! Let me know what your relationship with meditation is like and what benefits you've gained from it!To request topics for future episodes and to find more of my content, follow me on Instagram @_findingyourlight and @laurapapp_    

Welcome to Finding Your Light. This podcast will include different topics where I delve deeper into the psychology and science behind them and make them understandable. I hope you will learn a lot from what will be discussed and help broaden your perspective on things. Today's episode is on Parasocial relationships (One-sided relationships), where you form an attachment with another person or things by investing lots of time and energy into them but they don't know you exist. These sorts of relationships can form with celebrities, books and tv characters. I will be talking about why we form these attachments to media personas and what this means about us. I hope you enjoyed this episode and found it useful! Let me know if you've ever formed a really close attachment to another media person in the comments! Mine was definitely Justin Bieber when I was younger! To request topics for future episodes and to find more of my content, follow me on Instagram @_findingyourlight and @laurapapp_    

Welcome to Finding Your Light. This podcast will include different topics where I delve deeper into the psychology and science behind them and make them understandable. I hope you will learn a lot from what will be discussed and help broaden your perspective on things. Today's episode is on why we dream and what scientists have researched so far on them. I'll also be dispelling some myths and giving you lots of interesting facts about dreams! I hope you enjoyed this episode and found it useful! Let me know what your weirdest dream was or whether your dream predicted something in your future! To request topics for future episodes and to find more of my content, follow me on Instagram @_findingyourlight and @laurapapp_    

Welcome to Finding Your Light. This podcast will include different topics where I delve deeper into the psychology and science behind them and make it understandable. I hope you will learn a lot from what will be discussed and help broaden your perspective on things. Today's episode is on how to make friends as an adult in which I talk about different ways you can make friends and why having friends in your light is so important to your health. I hope you enjoyed this episode and found it useful! Let me know what ways you find useful in making friends. To request topics for future episodes and to find more of my content, follow me on Instagram @_findingyourlight and @laurapapp_    

Hi Everyone! Welcome to Finding Your Light. This podcast will include different topics where I delve deeper into the psychology and science behind them and make it understandable. I hope you will learn a lot from what will be discussed and help broaden your perspective on things. I’m starting off this podcast with an in depth discussion on motivation and why we might feel demotivated, the science and psychology behind it and practical tips you can implement on how to increase your motivation. Time stamps: 0= Introduction 1:26= Explanation of motivation 3:40 = Biology of motivation + removing barriers 7:25 = Dopamine and how to improve it 11:23 = Behavioural changes 12:53 =Rewarding oneself 14:06 = Tell others your goal 14:43 =Accountability partner 15:35 = Perspective 16:30= Routine 17:43 =Task difficulty 19:27 = Goal breakdown 23:57 = Fear 26:30= Visualisation 28:30 = Explanation for demotivation 29:19 = Gratitude 30:45 = Meditation + breathwork 31:35 = Do something new 33:27= Impact of food on mood and nutritional deficiencies   I hope you enjoyed this episode and found it useful! Let me know if you tried any of the tools and if they worked or not. To request topics for future episodes and to find more of my content, follow me on Instagram @laurapapp_