Pause Your Machinery: Giving Yourself Time Outs

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

8 Jan, 2015
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Pause Your Machinery: Childhood Experiences

15 Dec, 2014
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How the Mind’s Regulation of the Flow of Energy and Information Affects Relationships

Why would the healthy development of at least seven of the nine functions of the middle prefrontal cortex also be outcomes of a secure parent-child attachment? Because, as we learned from Siegel, the mind is an “embodied and relational process of regulating the flow of energy and information,” which means that our relationships are an integral

11 Dec, 2014
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Pause Your Machinery: Operating Principles

27 Nov, 2014
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How my Organizing Principles Can Dominate and Control my Experience of the Present

Here’s a firsthand example of how one of my Organizing Principles—part of my prior learning—can dominate and control my experience of the present. Let’s say I’ve gone out socially with a new friend whom I want to connect with. If I’m being mindful, input from what’s occurring in the moment will enter from the

24 Nov, 2014
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