“Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Hello friends, we have come to the end. This past summer, I had to ask myself if I wanted to a) invest the mental energy, time and attention it would take to increase my readership, or b) focus on other things… Continue reading The Last Post
In thinking about what states of mind are desirable and what it takes to get us there, I find Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s exploration of flow to be most compelling. Most of us have experienced flow at some point – when your attention is so fully absorbed in an activity that you are undistracted by anything outside,… Continue reading States of Flow
People struggle a lot to meet goals, and there is a lot of writing on the subject. Hey, me too! I can write about it too! As a morbidly obese alcoholic with depression, I had a lot of behavioral health goals that eluded achievement. In fact, most of my life, I knew nothing but failure… Continue reading #Life Goals
My body is full of cells. Yours is too. These cells do incredible things – there are cells for eyes that work with my brain and the light on the planet so I can see. They turn food into fuel. They walk me around. They’re all marvelous machines, working hard to get it just right.… Continue reading This Body, This Planet of Life
In the time of Buddha, we had no idea why people breathed, we just knew that they should. In the 16th century, we had no idea what the stars were. A hundred years ago, we knew nothing about DNA or its role in natural selection. For most of that time, for most people, life was… Continue reading 400 Years of Science
We’ve learned so much about our planet, and space, but the operation of our own brains remains a mystery to us. There is so much we don’t know about the human brain. Our methods of understanding the brain will surely seem crude as neuroscience takes off, aided by technology, but also formed by technology as… Continue reading Big Human Brains
I’ve been hearing for a long time that emotions are something you feel in your body. Something angers you, or makes you afraid, or skyrockets your anxiety, and your body is responding almost before you know there’s something to respond to. Your autonomic nervous system elevates your heart rate and prepares you to fight or… Continue reading Love in the Body
