Pause Your Machinery: Thinking Mindfully about Acts

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

9 Oct, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Payoffs or Heavy Costs?

I’ve mentioned that our acts have three payoffs, but are these really payoffs? By becoming mindfully aware of and reflecting on my acts, I can now see that they don’t deliver real payoffs; they’re just payoffs for my machinery. They keep me trapped in my old fixed way of being and reinforce the neural

25 Sep, 2014
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Attunement and Your Mind

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. Whether it’s procrastination or some other habitual behavior that you feel doesn’t serve you, once you’ve identified your pattern it’s easier to make mindful choices that will help you stop automatically following your old

1 Sep, 2014
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Mindful Awareness and COAL

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. Mindful awareness is more than just an absence of judgments; mindful awareness adds positive qualities to awareness. Mindful awareness, as Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. further defines it, is paying attention in the moment with

25 Aug, 2014
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Pause Your Machinery: Thinking About Your Shadow Side

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

18 Aug, 2014
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