Mindfulness is a word being thrown around a lot recently. Yet there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about what it is. To be mindful, in very general terms, is to be aware. Take away the notion of some miracle healing state of mind, or spiritual ‘be present’ type mantra for a moment. Imagine…
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Think back to your physics classes in school, do you remember waves? Do you remember how to draw a wave? I’m not talking in technical terms, I don’t want you to plot functions and so forth, I’m just talking about those curved lines and that swing up and down — like a wave. That’s what…
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A few years ago I studied a philosophy paper online, through Massey University in New Zealand. It was great, in it I got my first experience of the mind-body problem — are they one and the same, or is the mind some other form that’s separate from our physical presence? The Paradox It’s a big…
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As a species we’re intent on pushing the limit. There’s really no telling how far we’ll go — to the edges of space and time itself? Or to a self-inflicted oblivion? Whatever the answer, we’re not going to stop trying to push forward anytime soon. We like innovation and creativity, we thrive off of it,…
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When Rene Descartes declared “I think therefore I am,” what type of thinking do you suppose he meant? Marcus E. Raichle discovered the default mode network, and in 2005 showed that the human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anti-correlated systems. The default mode is deactivated when we use the task positive network — which, unfortunately, is…
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The Motivation to Create In an artists search for creative expression and endeavor comes the thought of value and worth. That value can come in many forms, anchored mostly in the artists reasons for creating it–Is it a means of creating social change? An act of rebellion? To raise awareness of the artists views towards…
Leave a CommentPeople seem to love musicians. Rock stars & pop stars, soul singers & rappers… I treat bands like Led Zep, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, as if they’re deities. They’re special groups of people that don’t exist in the real world with the rest of us. It’s not hard to find other people that share…
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You don’t need to look far to find support for Mindfulness. Whether you’ve tried it or not, the benefits are unmistakable. With a plethora of both endorsements and scientific studies to back it up, mindfulness meditation is fast becoming the recommended exercise for our brains. Mindfulness is an act of being in the moment, focused…
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Mindfulness helps us meditate, focus, and rid ourselves of stress and anxiety. But at what cost? Focus is an in demand commodity today, we all want it, if only our easily distracted minds would play ball (or maybe that’s the problem). As you might know by now, we get distracted at rather inconvenient times—during exams,…
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Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, is a good book. Thinking fast, or System 1 as he calls it, is your intuition. It’s quick, resourceful, and prone to mistakes which we often call biases. Thinking slow, or system 2, is you. System 1 is automatic, you can’t turn it off, and it will spit…
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