Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Design Artifacts and Gaming Transform Financial Planning Services
Designing financial planning services using tangible design artifacts and gaming frameworks to make them more inclusive and enjoyable.
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Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains
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Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
... See morea 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
nature research
A systematic review recently published in Mental Health and Physical Activity analyzed the results of 35 studies to look at the combined effects of mindfulness and exercise.
The results suggest that when combined, mindfulness and exercise might offer the most benefits for mental health.
The results suggest that when combined, mindfulness and exercise might offer the most benefits for mental health.
Jessica Freeborn • Exercise combined with mindfulness helps improve depression, anxiety
The hippocampus has been a focus in the study of recombination during simulation – perhaps unsurprising given the established role of this structure in relational processing, including the binding together of disparate elements during working memory as well as episodic encoding and retrieval (Axmacher et al., 2010; Eichenbaum, 2001; Hannula &... See more
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. Intermolecular forces flex beneath the feet of water striders on a pond, capillary forces shoot water impossibly upward through a plant’s thin roots, and electrostatic forces can ensnare any oppositely charged flecks that lie in... See more
Max G. Levy • The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology | Quanta Magazine
competitive intelligence is about the here and now—capturing and analysing information about an organisation's external landscape, which includes the activities of customers, competitors, distributors, technological trends, and prevailing market conditions. It typically has its sights set on the immediate future, up to five years ahead. It also... See more
Bruno Jacobsen • Strategic Foresight vs. Competitive Intelligence — Futures Platform
competitive intelligence and strategic foresight