Tag: zen
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Podcast: Gratitude.
Another deep dive podcast from the Huberman Lab exploring the empiric, evidence based benefits of developing your own gratitude practice. The regular activity of ‘counting your blessings’ or writing down a list of things you are grateful for in your life is now fairly well recognised as a wellness tool. But it turns out the…
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Mindfulness and Zen
The continuing public interest in meditation has led to a huge marketing growth industry supporting mindfulness (estimated $1 Billion industry in US alone) and secular mediation teaching through apps (eg Sam Harris Waking Up app), online guided meditations, corporate workshops and even colouring books. Mindfulness practice may indeed be a useful tool to help individuals…
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Interconnection.
In order to see the intertwined nature of life, you have to incline your mind toward living from the principle of interconnection. That means self-centered demands need to be examined; opinions questioned; aversive responses countered; egoic images investigated; and mental projections reinterpreted. Start slowly and first get a sense of how distant your mind is…
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Some books to help open your reality container.
Well, you may ask, what do I REALLY think of this whole Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon? The short answer is I have no answer. But I do have some ideas: Something is going on in our skies, and perhaps in our oceans, and perhaps on our ground. Something difficult to assess due to the high noise…
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