Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
The Science of Awe
The Science of Awe: This white paper explores the nature of awe, what elicits it, who is more prone to experiencing it, and the effects it has on individuals.
ggsc.berkeley.eduMindfulness Research and conferencing
awe
cognition can be seen as a multiscale web of dynamic information processing distributed across a vast array of complex cellular (e.g., neuronal, immune, and others) and network systems, operating across the entire body, and not just in the brain.
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
cognition and
Ultimately, shifting the focus from neural to cellular processing invites us to reconsider the received idea that cognitive processes can be linked solely to the neural system, and that the brain is somehow the natural home of mental states.
our preoccupation with facts – the information that links us to each other – perhaps causes us to disregard other ways of understanding meaning in our relationships, such as touch, intuition and facial expressions.
Isabel Sutton • Dementia is not a death. For some, it marks a new beginning | Psyche Ideas
Daniel Schmachtenberger l An introduction to the Metacrisis l Stockholm Impact/Week 2023
youtube.comOur financial system is so obviously incompatible for the biosphere.... I want a lot of optionality for having anything I want.
Imagination and Futures thinking
imagination as a threat-extinction tool
The more you build your self-conception
on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity
by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what
you really are.
on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity
by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what
you really are.
Article
non-narrativity and
Galen Strawson
Human beings simply aren’t wired for longitudinally taking care of themselves; we engage with the things that we find interesting and intrinsically motivating. Simply knowing that something is “good for us” isn’t a catalyst for changing our behavior. An effective therapy must be something a patient wants to do because it is compelling, and not... See more
Landmark FDA Clearance May Accelerate Compelling Digital Therapeutics
By separating pain from the self and relinquishing evaluative judgment, mindfulness meditation is able to directly modify how we experience pain in a way that uses no drugs, costs nothing and can be practiced anywhere.