As we go through life, events or actions may subtly shift our perception of the world, often without us realizing it. This can become problematic when it leads to mental health issues that affect our daily lives, such as stress, lack of confidence, or fear of public spaces.

Apply CBT techniques in everyday life

Everyone should do a daily mood check. Mood Tracking is one of the best ways to find happiness and spot trends that make us sad early on.

Apps are ideal for Mood Tracking

Keeping track of your mood or happiness comes with many benefits. For one, it can ground you in times of uncertainty. But at the same time can help soften impulsive behavior so you can stay on track of your goals. Let's explore some more benefits that mood tracking provides

Benefits of happiness tracking

Ever wish you had a time machine to go back to that one still moment in time when you were happy? Or re-live a difficult moment of your life knowing what you know now? While impossible physically; looking back is one of the many benefits to keeping a journal. Let's explore.

Benefits of keeping a journal

If you ask all scientists in the world to map all possible human emotions you will see just about the same amount of answers as there are scientists. In 1992 Paul Ekman found six human emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust and contempt.

Custom emotions in mood trackers are important

Dichotomous thinking is a common problem best described as black-or-white thinking. People who think this way are unable to see the complexity in people and situations, viewing things as either perfect or horrible.

Dichotomous Thinking - Mind Trap

Setbacks are an inevitable part of life, but how we respond to them can reveal hidden patterns in our thinking. Imagine this: you've just returned from a romantic date, only to find that the other person doesn’t want to see you again. As if that weren't enough, your boss calls right before the weekend to inform you that you're being let go.

Emotional Reasoning - Mind Trap

Therapy comes in many shapes and forms, and CBT is one of them. CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and has been proven to bring about very positive changes for many patients.

Explaining Cognitive Behavior Therapy

It’s important to be bored, but life is making that so difficult for us. Ask yourself this, did I feel bored today? Your answer could be “no” and you’d not be alone.

Feeling bored boosts creativity

Gratitude Trap - Cognitive Distortion

What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a question you have probably heard at least a dozen times while growing up. Maybe your answer has changed over time. Or perhaps now that you are an adult you ended up becoming exactly where you'd envisioned you'd be all along.

Happiness is a Journey

The core function of any mood tracker is to assess your daily level of happiness and then take action based on that assessment. To do this, you need a system to determine where you stand and, more importantly, where you want to go.

Happiness Scores - Mood Analysis

Being happy and unstressed is not always something that comes naturally. Post-traumatic stress, or even just the constant pressure from our day-to-day lives, can be enough to fray our mental health.

How to apply Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in real life

You might have heard the term “mood tracker” before. Whether it’s from colleagues, friends or anyone active in the mental health space. In this article we will explain what a mood tracker is, and why you should use one.

How to use a Mood Tracker

We start with a fictional tale about a character named Lisa. She is a teacher with almost twenty years of experience standing in front of a classroom.

Identify and stop negative thought patterns

Are you worth your monthly paycheck? Do you believe you are the right person to lead this team forward? Is this machine maintenance that you do really so hard that it requires a full-time staffer?

Imposter Syndrome - Mind Trap

People are social creatures. Put us in a room together and we gravitate towards each other. This is especially true in the face of adversity.

The invisibility of mental health

Anxiety in some shape or form is completely normal. It happens unconsciously and often is the result of stress. Like it or not stress is important for us to function and can help us to achieve important milestones or keep ourselves out of trouble in dire times.

Live less anxious

With Luci 3.0, we are bringing home the journey of mood tracking. For decades, psychologists have agreed that tracking your mental state of mind is beneficial to your health. With this new update, we are celebrating that journey so you can live your best life.

Luci 3.0 - Celebrating Your Journey

With the release of Luci 2.0.0 we have introduced new pricing options (one-time and subscription) to drastically lower the cost of entry

New Luci pricing options

'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'—a phrase you've likely heard before. It's true: we all interpret the world through our own unique perspectives and experiences.

Magnification and Minification - Mind Trap

'Hello, it’s me' is part of a popular Adele song, but it also rings home to many of us. Why? Because it’s hard to show who you truly are.

How to maintain your vision and beliefs in the real world

Mind reading is a mental shortcut where we assume what someone is thinking without having much information to go on. It’s a way to navigate the information-dense world and protect our feelings or empower our biases.

Mind Reading - Cognitive Distortion

When you ask someone about their life they can usually sum up a series of memories. Freezes in time that have defined us for who we are. The good, and the bad.

Moments - Mood Analysis

Overgeneralization happens when a person takes one isolated experience and applies it to all other events.

Overgeneralization - Mind Trap

Imagine sitting beside the road seeing cars drive by. In each of those cars sits a person with his or her own goals and feelings.  While you are sitting there you might even notice your brain wants to turn its attention towards your own feelings.

Power of Feeling Unforced

Self-reflection is incredibly important. It allows us to catch, check and change (3Cs) our behavior and improve our outlook on life.

Practical Benefit of Self-Reflection

What do a game of Monopoly, rich people and a sense of deserving all have in common? Well they have been the subject of an experiment run by the University of California. A rigged game of monopoly has exposed how people can feel given enough success.

Psychology of Success

The person you love is gone. The house that was once a home is now mere brick and mortar. Or perhaps you have lost the ability to walk, leaving you “handicapped” for life. One of the certainties in live is change, and odds are we will all face grief at some point in our lives.

Reflect on Grief

Reflection is a super important tool to prevent and combat stress. It’s important to realize where the stress is originating from, how it affects us, and if we are still capable of relativity.

Reflect on stress

Every user of Luci is now able to reflect on our latest topic Finance. With over 30 questions to reflect on you will gain better control of your finance and general relationship with money.

Reflect on Finance

When you're chasing a goal—whether it's personal, professional, or somewhere in between—motivation is the engine that drives your progress.

Reflecting on Your Motivation Is the Key to Achieving your Goals

“Let’s delay project X to next week” is a common answer while planning tasks that we find boring, confusing or intimidating. The thought goes something like this.

Risk of Procrastination

Selective abstraction is the process of taking one, usually negative, aspect out of a larger experience and ignoring the rest.

Selective Abstraction - Mind Trap

A common sight on the other side of the room. You see a group of 30 somethings. happy and full of life. They are talking about getting kids, scoring that new promotion or how they had a lovely weekend with old friends at a nearby lake house.

How to stop feeling depleted and drained

Personal feelings and emotions is a powerful feature that help you track exactly what makes you special. But great power comes with responsibility so we would like to provide some suggestions and tips to get you started.

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