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Mindlessness

Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid Of Your 'Senior Moments'

Susan Krauss Whitbourne | Posted 02.20.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Aging, Mental Health, Activity, Alzheimer's Association, Memory Loss, Senior Moment, Mindlessness, Attitudes Toward Aging, Stereotypes, Prevention, Exercise, Health, Am I Having a Senior Moment?, Memory Slips, Stereotype Threat, Health Care, Alzheimer' Disease, Fifty News
Susan Krauss Whitbourne

Everyone, at any age, forgets. Your senior moment may be no different than the junior moments you've had your whole life.

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Perfectionism Runs on Mindlessness

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mindlessness, Choice Awareness, Ocpd, Mindfulness, Perfectionism, Existential Rehabilitation, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Any mind is a hostage to its habits. Perfectionistic mind - even more so. Perfectionist's mind is a high security prison guarded by guilt-tripping s...

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Stemming the Mindlessness Epidemic

Joel Brokaw | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Addiction, Mindlessness, Compulsive Overeating, Obesity, Robert Lorenz, Mindfulness, Awareness, Self-Awareness, Diet, The Inner Life, Self-Help, Healthy Living News
Joel Brokaw

Whether it is food, drugs, sex, gambling or keeping the television or music droning on all day to fill up the silent void, these behaviors all exist in our lives for good reasons.

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Lo Fi, Bang & Olufsen, and All That Cheating Jazz (Part 1)

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Uncertainty, Form, Jesse James, Low Fidelity, Propaganda, Mindflow, Lo Fi, Journalism, Sound, Certainty, Mindlessness, MSNR, Loyalty, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Media Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Tiger Woods, Essence, Pattern Interruption, Guarantee, Cheating, Mind, Hi Fi, High Fidelity, Promise, Noise, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Informed consent: I've got this blog on my mind. I think it can explain some things about our culture of Low Fidelity and all that Tiger Woods/Jesse...

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Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mindless Eating, Ivan Pavlov, Associative Networks, Reflex, Slave, Pavel Somov, Robot, Habit Modification, Television, Mindlessness, Nobel Prize, Mindful Eating, Slavic, Slavery, De-Programming, Tv, Classical Conditioning, The Inner Life, Slav, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

This is is the process of de-conditioning/re-conditioning that might come in handy with the problem of overeating. That's right, dear reader, I am still writing about mindless eating and how to make it mindful.

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Mind Interrupted is Mind Awake

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mindlessness, Mindfulness, Confusion, Schematic Thinking, Pattern Interruption, Nonduality, Clarity, Dichotomous Thinking, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

This is a short-attention-span/pattern-interruption post for the minds on the go. Format: five pattern-interruption thoughts to, perhaps, further...

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Nissan Cubism

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Attention, Mindfulness, Auto Insurance, Safety, Nissan, Car Design, Edward De Bono, Perception, Zeigarnik Effect, Cubism, Mindlessness, Cube, Style News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

No question: the Cube's asymmetry - design-wise - will evoke attention and intrigue. But will this visual pattern interruption mean more or less safety for the drivers behind the Cube?

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