Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
The next time you’re driving home in a car or sitting down to enjoy a meal, spare some thought for the ways in which the neurochemical soup in your brain mimics your gut: helping you to digest complex patterns of information as you navigate the intricacies of your daily life.
James M Shine • To grasp how serotonin works on the brain, look to the gut | Psyche Ideas
Neuroscience and
ess Is Making Waves
Mindfulness: The Surprising Business Model
Together, wanting and liking encourage us to pursue rewards. But these sensations can also stand alone, creating situations where you might know that you enjoy something but don’t want to go after it, or where you might have a strong desire for something that you don’t get much pleasure from.
You can want things you don’t like and like things you don’t want | Psyche Ideas
addiction and
a path to less time pressure and more time affluence could consist in learning and practicing mindfulness.
https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aphw.12298
Mindfulness and
This Camera Takes 1,000 Years to Capture a Single Photograph
David Nield • This Camera Takes 1,000 Years to Capture a Single Photograph
futures thinking
According to the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis, extracted episodic details must also be recombined into a coherent event simulation. This recombinatory ability is thought to be central to flexibly imagining the future – to construct as well as disassemble and rework the components of scenarios to create different outcomes to enhance... See more
RP Roberts • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
Particularly relevant to the idea of episodic simulation is the process of forming “implementation intentions” (Gollwitzer, 1999) which involve imagining and rehearsing a plan with reference to the specific future context in which it will be executed. Research has shown that creating implementation intentions significantly increases the likelihood... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
You're not being selfish when you know that someone isn't good for you and you therefore decide to opt out of them. That's healthy.
With that said, people don't like it when you grow into boundaries. They want the old you back; the one they could walk over or gaslight or worse.
But anyone who doesn't respect your boundaries can be archived from your... See more
With that said, people don't like it when you grow into boundaries. They want the old you back; the one they could walk over or gaslight or worse.
But anyone who doesn't respect your boundaries can be archived from your... See more
marymartinphd • On Boundaries, Self-Care, and Holidays
self-care and
Turkle referenced the issue of behavioral metrics dominating AI research, and her concern that the interior life was being overlooked, and concluded by saying that the human cost of talking to machines isn’t immediate, it’s cumulative. 'What happens to you in the first three weeks may not be...the truest indicator of how that’s going to limit you,... See more