What Are You Thinking?
For those of us attempting to live in the world in a more conscious way, there can never be enough reminders, for we humans are such forgetful creatures.
For those of us attempting to live in the world in a more conscious way, there can never be enough reminders, for we humans are such forgetful creatures.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living
By re-framing marginal, disfavored parts of my trip -- like the Newark airport -- so that they were no longer inconveniences, but actually part of the action, I prevented myself from getting aggravated.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living
Can you write a haiku describing anything crossing your mind now?
Joan Borysenko | Posted 06.28.2008 | Living
We are a stunningly impatient culture...a fact that has been reflected in a lot of poor choices that have compromised the environment, the economy, th...
Kay Goldstein | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
Science is finding ways to verify what the ancients already knew: practices that expand awareness and consciousness can be of benefit to all aspects of the human condition.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
Have you ever found yourself standing in front of the fridge, looking for something to eat? before you eat ask yourself, "Am I hungry?" If not, see if you can do something else.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living
A serious scientist had a powerful experience. And she found herself in a universe she had never played in. And, boy, is she happy she found it.
Susan Smalley | Posted 06.12.2008 | Living
I heard on the radio last week that the genocide in Darfur has been going on for five years, 200,000 people have died and 2 million people have been d...
Kay Goldstein | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living
A friend recently sent me the following email: "I had a 'set back' yesterday and was struggling with 'too many thoughts' and feeling frustrated. I di...
Susan Smalley | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
I heard the words, "In the Name of the Father" many times in my Lutheran upbringing in Indiana. While not of any religious orientation, I have had ex...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.12.2008 | Living
Mindfulness brings clarity and vividness to present experience. It can enhance a sense of well-being and calm troubled spirits.
Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living
Have you ever had a situation where you wanted to love someone freely but you couldn't? For whatever reason you felt constricted or tight? Your hear...
Susan Smalley | Posted 03.06.2008 | Living
Until I was curious enough to study my habitual patterns and behaviors of avoidance, I could not let go of them.
Susan Smalley | Posted 02.28.2008 | Living
I just returned from Burlington Vermont where I spent a few days with my son (a student at the University of Vermont) and gave a talk in the Medical S...
Susan Smalley | Posted 02.21.2008 | Living
In the aftermath of the shooting last week on another college campus, I am reminded of a common response to such horrors: to pray and seek solace from...
Amy Swift | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living
Reaching out of one's comfort zone is a way to still the mind and focus one's energies.
Jane Shure and Beth Weinstock | Posted 12.31.2007 | Living
When we are unaware, and have learned to disregard the conversations that take place internally, we are more at risk for feeling bad about ourselves.
Susan Smalley | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living
We don't need to understand Einstein's theory of relativity to see that time is an elusive construct. Nowhere is this changing perception of time more...
Susan Smalley | Posted 12.13.2007 | Living
When kindness is a guiding principal, hurting another - whether human, animal, or the earth, will not be easy.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 12.12.2007 | Living
I've already told you that I'm not spiritual, which I think is important, particularly because it manages your expectations. I couldn't very well star...
Perry Garfinkel | Posted 12.07.2007 | Living
"Don't just do something; sit there. With all this socially engaged work, with interpersonal relationships, with inter-being, first you must learn what the Buddha learned, to still the mind. They you don't take action; action takes you."
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.30.2007 | Living
The brilliant success of mainstream medicine in many areas has led to an attitude of "I'll do what I want and let them fix it later."
Susan Smalley | Posted 11.29.2007 | Living
On the heels of our annual celebration of giving, there is this rapid shift in attention toward 'getting' with the consumer blitz of Black Friday.
Susan Smalley | Posted 11.22.2007 | Living
As I look forward to Thanksgiving and my children returning from colleges to hang out together, I am consciously going to talk less and figure that I will hear a lot more.
Susan Smalley | Posted 09.18.2007 | Living
As a scientist, I love the challenge of understanding my mind, from the inside, while learning what science tells us from the outside. The merging of the two will yield knowledge far greater than either can alone.
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