Debbie Foster

If you're afraid of something specific, the Aztecs would suggest practicing by facing smaller fears in different contexts. If you struggle with self-discipline, start with activities that require small amounts of effort, something you can manage and build upon. In this way, you gradually develop the tools to handle more challenging situations.

is a delayed-choice version of the double-slit experiment in which the experimenters seem able to dictate what happens it the past by erasing (versus not erasing) quantum information in the present.

Among the recent discoveries of neuroscience is that radical self-delusion can have an organic source.

In short, it is our subjective evaluation of a practice's appeal--and less its real-world impact on our health, fertility, or strength—that often determines whether it sticks around and spreads. Of course, subjective appeal and objective benefits often converge. Hammers, matches, and spears produce material advantages, which is why we continue to

Paying rapt attention, whether to a trout stream or a novel, a do-it-yourself project or a prayer, increases your capacity for concentration, expands your inner boundaries, and lifts your spirits, but more important, it simply makes you feel that life is worth living.

There are three basic systems at work, two enabling us to be ON, one enabling us to switch OFF. Both of the ON systems manage and direct our energies and attention towards or away from things in our world in anxiety, fear, reward or pleasure.

One of the biggest obstacles to changing personality is this kind of ambivalence: a sense that yeah, maybe you should get around to being less angry or drunk or chronically late, and maybe one day you will, but not today. After all, you're a fun drunk, and you get angry for a reason, right?

In these kinds of performances, the reading and piano improvisation occur simultaneously. It's more than just a combination of words and music. When I'm reading, the area from my toes up to my throat is completely absorbed in and responding to the music; while the area from my tongue to my brain is pursuing the meaning of the words. Or maybe it's

Although teotl is all of reality, that basic energy self-expresses in more concrete form through doubling. Conceptually, reality can be thought of as a series of logical doubles: Here implies not over there, up implies not down, outside implies not inside, and so on.

The Aztecs thought of these relational pairs as the basic features of our world as