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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Rhesus Monkeys and Good Parenting

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon: Let’s look at an example of how a parent can repair a rupture in his or her child’s attachment. When I was five years old, my father walked into the living room, found me

15 May, 2014
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“Self-Transformation and Your Brain”

An excerpt from Chapter 1 of my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon (http://amzn.to/1fekgI3): Here’s an example from my childhood that should help you see how brain development plays out in our lives. When I was in kindergarten, we had a “rainy day afternoon” during

23 Apr, 2014
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Getting the Most Out of Life in a Digital World

A TV commercial is currently playing in which the camera moves in on a handsome man lying on a chaise lounge at a resort pool. He glances at a teenage girl with her back to him, dangling her feet in the water. We see the teen picking up her cell phone and pressing keys. The

2 Apr, 2014
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A Life Lesson That Works

A long time ago I learned a “law of life”: Tell the truth and keep your agreements, and life will turn out perfectly. And “perfectly” may not fit your picture. Keeping Agreements “Keep your agreements” is easy to understand: It comes down to keeping your word, doing what you said you would do. To

27 Mar, 2014
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