Pause Your Machinery: How Past Traumas Can Shape Our Machinery

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness to learn and master, and this

16 Jul, 2014
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Will We Ever Learn to Be at Peace?

Last week got back from Israel, on what was my third trip there over the last 20 years. My strongest impression this time came from a visit to Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park, which encompasses the ruins of Maresha, an ancient city of Judaea. This is a working archaeological site, with thousands of man-made caves,

10 Jul, 2014
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How Childhood Traumas Influence Your Programming

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon I’ve noticed that many of us have a single story or trauma from our childhood that both creates and defines the filter through which we see much of the world and that has had

8 Jul, 2014
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Pause Your Machinery: Dealing with Past Traumas

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon: Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness to learn and

3 Jul, 2014
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Why I Recommend Meditation

I meditated without realizing it for over 40 years when I was a runner. I ran six miles, six days a week. I’d start running, and a minute into it I’d be in my “runner’s trance.” The great thing about running for me was being unable to keep a focused train of thought on a

26 Jun, 2014
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