A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Step 2

When I learned the concept of acts, I set myself the task of mindfully observing my thoughts and behavior to learn what my acts were. I began to see, for example, that in situations in which I felt shamed and blamed, the chatter in my mind was something like, “How could that person start

18 Sep, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Step 1

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. One of the concepts I find valuable in helping me to mindfully look at how I think and act when I allow my default programming to run me is the concept of identity. By identity

15 Sep, 2014
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Pause Your Machinery: “Upsets”

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

14 Aug, 2014
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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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