Pause Your Machinery: Frog in Hot Water Relationships

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 brief written exercise will give you the opportunity to rest, step outside the pattern of passive reading, and

2 Mar, 2015
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What’s Wrong with Being Right?

In my relationships, my default programming also directed a lot of my thoughts and feelings in support of my being “right.” Sometimes the desire to be right makes us attempt to make the other person wrong; sometimes it makes us withdraw into ourselves, as I did when I’d back off from taking a stance to

19 Feb, 2015
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Pause Your Machinery: A Frog in Hot Water

16 Feb, 2015
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How Do You Become a Frog in Hot Water?

I once heard that if you put a frog in a pan of water, put the pan on the stove, and gradually turn up the heat under the pan, the frog would acclimate to the warm water, continue to get used to it as the water becomes increasingly hot, and would remain in the pan

9 Feb, 2015
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Pause Your Machinery: Organizing and Guiding Principles

5 Feb, 2015
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