Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
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Our minds often wander into darker thoughts like a curious but cautious cat exploring a dimly lit room. It takes great willpower and a blend of wisdom, perspective, and a touch of whimsy to extract oneself from these shadowed corners
5 Philosophical Ways to Get Your Mind Out of Dark Places
Mindfulness and
A new study reveals that regardless of task difficulty, people’s minds increasingly wander with time, reaching a 50% distraction rate towards the end of activities. Analyzing over 10,000 participants in 68 studies, the research found no significant difference in distraction levels across various tasks. This phenomenon persists even without external... See more
Neuroscience News • Mind Wandering is Inevitable Over Time - Neuroscience News
Though our collective forgetting is enormous, it is mostly unremarkable to those who study the transmission of culture. What puzzles me, and others who study transmission, is why so much unwritten knowledge has survived. Despite the brittleness of cultural practices, skills proliferate with and without records, chaining generation to generation,... See more
Helena Miton • How do we transmit culture when it cannot be put into words? | Aeon Essays
intuition and
Happiness
reading habit may be one of the useful strategies for protecting mental health via increasing self-compassion, particularly in people with depressive temperament.
https://www.academia.edu/2997-9196/1/1/10.20935/MHealthWellB6176
who knew? and
When you view a situation as a challenge, you’re combining recognition of the problem that needs to be addressed with faith that you can rise to the occasion and deal with it successfully. Doing this can mobilise one’s positive self-regard and sense of potency.
Arie Kruglanski • How to embrace uncertainty | Psyche Guides
self-efficacy and
controlled breathing