Your Perspective Determines your Perceptions

Here’s a visual image that illustrates how your perspective determines your perceptions. It also illustrates that the instructions you receive—which, when you’re on automatic pilot, come from your programming—determine your perspective. Look at the following drawing (designed by early-twentieth century Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin), which can be perceived as a white candlestick against a

23 Oct, 2014
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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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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate— My “poor me” act

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

22 Sep, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Step 2

18 Sep, 2014
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