Glossary
These are short definitions of the words this site uses, written so you can quote them.
Each topic name links to its room. Self-hypnosis has its own entry because people search for it, and you'll find it inside the hypnosis room. The depression and loneliness rooms haven't had a medical review yet.
- Arcana Mentis
- Arcana Mentis is this site, a free place to learn how your own mind works. It offers education only and doesn't diagnose or treat anyone.
- Mind control
- Mind control means looking after your own thoughts, attention, and habits. On this site it always means your own mind, never someone else's.
- Brain optimization
- Brain optimization means training your attention, memory, willpower, and imagination with everyday habits. It's education, separate from medical treatment.
- Getting your life back
- Getting your life back means taking charge of your ordinary days again, often after a big change like retirement, divorce, or illness.
- Spirituality and religion
- The spirituality and religion room treats belief and practice with respect for every tradition and for people who have left one. It never tries to sell you a creed.
- Manifestation
- Manifestation means pointing your attention and your actions at a goal you chose. It makes no promise of money, magic, or any supernatural result.
- Hypnosis
- Hypnosis uses focused attention and suggestion. This site teaches it only as something you practice on yourself.
- Self-hypnosis
- Self-hypnosis is one practice inside the hypnosis room, something you do for yourself.
- Meditation
- Meditation is a way of practicing attention, often for a few minutes in a chair. It doesn't cure illness or replace medical care.
- Depression (on this site)
- The depression room is education meant to go alongside care from your doctor. Keep taking any prescribed medicine as prescribed, and talk with your doctor before changing it. In a US crisis, call or text 988.
- Loneliness
- The loneliness room treats loneliness as a subject worth understanding, with small ways to feel less alone. It's written with warmth and respect, to go alongside care.
- Adjunct to care
- An adjunct to care is educational material meant to go alongside professional help. It's never a reason to stop a prescribed medicine without talking with your doctor.
- Self-mastery
- Self-mastery means looking after your own mind (your attention, habits, and inner voice) without claiming to treat any illness.
- A teaching site
- Arcana Mentis teaches. It doesn't diagnose, prescribe, or take the place of a doctor.