Mary Martin

the existence of mindfulness as an innate trait is questionable as mindfulness in the traditional Buddhist terms and, in an applied sense, was developed as a practice; a skill to be developed throughout one's lifetime regardless of one's prevailing psychological phenomena

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our capacity for growth and creativity is not lost with a diagnosis of dementia.

You can do this practice not only thinking of people you care about, but also visualizing people you don’t like. It’s important to have an unbiased, compassionate attitude toward whatever is arising.

It is predictable, then, that users are consistently fooled into believing that their AI companions are conscious persons, capable of feeling real emotions.

Is it more important to reform existing social networks or to work to build new ones?

a polyvagal futures literacy offers foresight practitioners and learners a powerful framework for meeting the future with agency, hope, and inner resourcefulness in the face of its complexity.

The anthropocentrism of humanity’s

predominant relationship to the environment is so extreme that this gratuitous violence against

other animals (both domesticated and free-living) goes largely unnoticed in everyday society.

Meanwhile, environmental justice, the very field established to champion public awareness

and policy in the service of... See more