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Common Memory Quirk Tied To Mental Illness

2012-05-23T12:15:02Z

Lia Kvavilashvili sat in her office at the University of Hertfordshire, mentally reviewing a study she had recently published. She knew that there was...

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Ellen Davis: Let's Look at What We Call the 'Mind'

2012-05-23T07:20:31Z

When you are no longer identified with and through "mind." when you can see your thoughts and beliefs for what they are (and not reality), there is no need to divide against them and mind.

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Serina Deen, M.D., MPH: Tapping Away Trauma: 'Emotional Freedom' Techniques

2012-05-23T06:30:00Z

EFT involves techniques that combines exposure, cognitive restructuring, waking hypnosis, and physical relaxation while tapping on a sequence of pressure points and repeating key phrases out loud.

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Paul Spector, M.D.: Our Two Selves: Experiencing and Remembering

2012-05-01T12:51:56Z

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of new ways to look at how we humans make decisions.

Read more: Memory, Consciousness, Decision Points, Daniel Kahneman, Choice, Self-Awareness, Mind, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

Ira Israel: I'm an Idiot

2012-04-30T07:20:45Z

I never realized what an idiot I was until I started meditating. Let me rephrase that: I never realized how limited my mind was until I tried practicing mindfulness meditation.

Read more: Stress, Meditation, Psychology, Depression, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Stress Reduction, Mind, Thinking About, Thoughts, Life Thoughts, Thinking, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

Gun Study Shows Holding Weapon Has Weird Effect On Men's Appearance

2012-04-13T08:19:46Z

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor
Published: 04/12/2012 06:18 PM EDT on LiveScience

With gun in hand, a man of any size appears big...

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Kelly Dorfman: Why 'Brain Support' Should Be on Your 'To Do' List

2012-04-11T16:24:51Z

Though my father is slipping now, he has done well for almost 20 years despite major health challenges because of targeted nutrition therapy aimed at his brain.

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Douglas LaBier: Your True Self Is 'Intelligent Stardust': Turning Points, Part 2

2012-04-11T16:24:38Z

As you reflect on turning points or moments in which you experience a glimmer of who you really are, might have been -- or might still become -- envision yourself as like a ocean's wave: Both separate and yet part of the ocean itself.

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Cooking Light: Foods To Boost Your Brain

2012-04-06T08:42:40Z

Just like the right diet can help prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, or cancer, health experts are finding that certain foods may boost your mind. Stay on top of your mental ball game with these foods.

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Deepak Chopra: Can Your Brain Fall in Love?

2012-04-05T06:39:07Z

There is no doubt that brain research is one of the most exciting frontiers in medicine, and our knowledge doubles every few years. The problem isn't about the data, but about overstepping and making too may claims about what the data are telling us about ourselves.

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Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Real But Not True

2012-04-03T07:24:22Z

When very strong emotions -- like fear, anger, or jealousy -- come up, it's very hard to resist giving up and giving into them.

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Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? Recursion

2012-03-29T09:12:27Z

Recursion is how conversion always turns together with itself as already having been, again, both different and the same.

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Mind and Meditation

2012-03-29T07:20:15Z

A regular meditation practice can transform the quality of your life by culturing the nervous system to maintain peace, energy and expanded awareness throughout the day. You become capable of accommodating different challenges in life without any conditions.

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WATCH: The Mind Of A Mass Murderer

2012-03-27T21:18:56Z

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman murdered his mother and his wife before traveling to the campus of the University of Texas, climbing inside the tower, and killing fourteen others.

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Jeff DeGraff: MacGyvering Our Way Out of the Creativity Crisis

2012-03-19T11:10:44Z

Innovation is mostly about seeing what others miss, connecting the dots and taking purposeful action. To do so, we must intentionally look in our blind spots.

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Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism

2012-03-14T16:55:31Z

It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.

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Cynthia R. Green, Ph.D.: 'Alive Again': A Case Of Reversible Memory Loss

2012-03-10T10:00:19Z

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) is a rare but reversible cause of memory loss caused by abnormal levels of cerebral spinal fluid in the brain.

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Paul Wilkes: Art Of Confession: An Adult Examination Of Our Lives

2012-03-06T09:23:50Z

We have lived enough of our lives to keep small infractions in perspective, knowing that to keep meticulous account of every little lie or selfishness is not really living consciously, but rather, neurotically.

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David Rock: The Neuroscience of Leadership

2012-03-05T19:10:51Z

Leaders and leadership scholars of the future may be looking at the world in a whole new way -- with the brain firmly in mind. And the journey has really only just begun.

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Denise M. Wilbanks: The Secret Sauce

2012-03-02T13:02:00Z

In a world where contrast and diversity battles for the attention of our senses, it is critical to strike a balance between the external and the internal. Cleaning house is no longer just for "the four walls," we must also maintain order at the center of our being, our real home.

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Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: How Much Do We Value Our Values?

2012-02-22T08:14:24Z

And perhaps the greatest impact religion has had on the world is that it helps us move the discussion of values from "costs and benefits" to "right and wrong."

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Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? Conversion, Recursion And Excursion

2012-02-22T08:38:55Z

Conversion describes the gathering of the present; it is the unity of the present with the modes of being past and future.

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Robert Lanza, M.D.: Religion Vs. Science's Answers To The Big Questions

2012-02-21T12:33:07Z

So those who ask science for ultimate answers, or to explain the fundamentals of existence, are looking in the wrong place -- like asking particle physics to evaluate art.

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Yujhan Claros: Is That All There Is? What Does Anything Mean?

2012-02-16T15:23:24Z

So what is meaning? What does anything mean?

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Beauty and Luck

2012-02-13T21:25:07Z

When you rejoice in beauty, the entire creation rejoices with you. The very purpose of such variety in this creation is to bring you back to your Self, to come to know that you are beautiful. And in that bliss, all that you need, all that you would want will simply keep happening.

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