Reclaim The Brain
My attention is shot. I’d like to have another go. Things about focus, the ruination of focus, ADHD, and paying attention.
Reclaim The Brain
One of the take-home lessons of Buddhist philosophy is that feelings just are. If we accepted their arising and subsiding as part of life, rather than reacting to them as if they were deeply meaningful, we’d often be better off. Learning to do that is a big part of what mindfulness meditation is about.
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“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them,” she insisted, “but by waiting for them.”3
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press
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Well, that tracks.
only when we have shifted into the rest-and-digest response of the nervous system will our brains allow us to reclaim our attention, access the power of our imagination, and unlock our subconscious.
James Doty • Mind Magic
Key points – How to revive your sense of wonder
Wondering is rewarding. By embracing wonder – your drive to learn about the world – you can deepen your appreciation of the world’s richness and engage more fully with others.
Wonder commonly declines with age – but it doesn’t have to. A childhood boom in wondering often subsides as people grow up, yet ... See more
Wondering is rewarding. By embracing wonder – your drive to learn about the world – you can deepen your appreciation of the world’s richness and engage more fully with others.
Wonder commonly declines with age – but it doesn’t have to. A childhood boom in wondering often subsides as people grow up, yet ... See more
How to revive your sense of wonder | Psyche Guides
As a method, marginalia remind us that all annotation is allusive, that all literature is connected to everything else, that the reader influences the writer as surely as the other way around, and even if the later has been dead for centuries.
Ed Simon • Annotate This: On Marginalia
Mary Oliver said, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
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What would happen if you did a Zoom call with the people who follow your work? Or if you planned a small dinner with other creative people in your orbit? Say we use the internet as a tool to make the plans, and then we close the laptop and build with the handful of people in front of us - then what? What could we do that we’re avoiding because we’r
... See moreEverybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.
Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
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