Pause Your Machinery: Organizing and Guiding Principles

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

5 Feb, 2015
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Pause Your Machinery: Giving Yourself Time Outs

8 Jan, 2015
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Pause Your Machinery: Childhood Experiences

15 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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