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Brian Walsh

Texting, Driving and Mindfulness | 21st Century Spirituality | Big Think - 0 views

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    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
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  • So I was shocked when moving to Los Angeles nearly two years ago to find how many times I’ve spotted people at lights and stop signs, head down, typing away, or worse, on the highway attempting a one-handed text. 
  • mindfulness meditation is making remarkable clinical strides.
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  • the list can include making coffee, breathing, going to the bathroom and walking.
  • Mindfulness is an important component of yoga asana classes.
  • he one ‘rule’ I have is that no one peers at their phones
  • Putting away the phone during a class is a valuable tool in helping overcome cell phone addiction
  • Funded by AT&T, the film looks into the lives of a handful of people who have either caused or been hurt by (or lost family to) accidents due to texting and driving—at this moment, 100,00 automobile accidents occur every year
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 29 Sep 13
       
      There currently are way to many car accidents every year to due a lack of concentration by the driver. So many innocent lives have been ended tragically early due to carelessness of other drivers on the road, it truly is very sad  
    • Darren Ferony
      Darren Ferony on 01 Oct 13
       
      This article is about the dangers of texting on a cell phone while driving and how it takes away from our mindfulness. Multitasking severely decreases our focus and is not a practice of mindfulness. The author explains how mindfulness is important as it allows us to focus on one task at a time. Our cell phone use is an addiction that spikes our dopamine levels through the satisfaction we get from every text or notification. This addiction causes us to not be mindful sometimes and even do something as stupid as text and drive just because we do not realize it or cannot help it.
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David Dunn

Fishing for relaxation. - by Simon Wright - Helium - 0 views

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shared by David Dunn on 02 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • The fact that fishing can be relaxing should be no great surprise. It often involves travelling to beautiful quiet locations and sitting looking out upon the water, whilst waiting for a fish to bite. The location with its sights, sounds and smells can be instantly relaxing. Imagine closing your eyes and hearing just the slow rise and fall of the waves and inhaling the scent of the sea air. Fishing provides time to think and is an escape from a hectic day job or from having to deal with screaming kids.
  • Some anglers will prefer to fish alone but, equally, many prefer to fish with a friend or friends. This can allow you to engage in some friendly banter whilst you wait for the first fish to be caught.
Emily Vargas

Five Classic Ways to Boost Your Note-Taking - 0 views

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shared by Emily Vargas on 29 Sep 13 - Cached
  • Divide your page into two columns. The left one
  • You're going to jot larger ideas in this column:
  • In the right column, you're going to take down as much information as possible
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  • Some versions of the Cornell system leave the last few lines on each page for summarizing the whole page
  • cover the detailed notes on the right and just examine the main points and new vocab
  • have pictures and tables—it's not necessarily organized
  • But unless you try it, you'll never know if it works better for you.
  • Color-code with different pens, pencils, and highlighters.
  • Trying some new shorthand is a really geeky way to slightly tweak your engravings and get you amped about taking notes again.
  • It's mostly based around removing unimportant letters and making complex letters easier to write quickly.P
  • you might try translating just some of your most-frequently used words into a shorthand "language" that takes less time to writ
  • Record your lectures
Richard Ofosuhene

How Mindfulness Can Treat Anxiety - Carolyn Tucker MA, NCC, DCC, LAPC's Blog - Decatur-... - 1 views

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shared by Richard Ofosuhene on 01 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • From the poor economic climate, to traffic, to tragedy in the news, our culture contributes as well.
  • Mindfulness causes you to be fully presen
  • Mindfulness is defined as a state of active, open attention on the present
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  • . When you're mindful, you exist solely in the moment, noticing what is going on right then to the fullest. The practice of acceptance goes along with mindfulness
  • In acceptance you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad
  • Instead of saying "I am anxious," notice the physical sensation and acknowledge that it is there
  • help clients daily learn skills to help them better cope with the effects of anxiety on their mind and bodies.
  • Mindfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit.
  • Even as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly. When the mind locates the symptoms of anxiety it sends off a "code red" and all of the symptoms feel exacerbated.
  • Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
  • By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself.
  • Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music.
  • ven as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly
  • When we resist emotions or physical sensations they rear their ugly heads and demand to be noticed. The sheer energy of them increases due to our increase in attempt to squash them down. Our bodies were made to allow all energy, negative and positive to move through them and to be expressed in some way, whether spoken through communication, burned off through exercise or relaxed away. Acceptance allows our bodies to naturally self correct and allow that energy to pass through us without resistance.
  • Mindfulness is proven to increase our quality of life by improving our physical health (reducing blood pressure and increasing quality of sleep to name a few benefits) and our mental health (decreased rumination, increased ability to handle daily stress) and out relationships (One study showed that people who practice mindfulness deal with relationship stress more constructively.
  • indfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit. You can practice mindfulness in many other ways too. Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music. Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
  • By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself
  • Richard Ofosuhene on 04 Oct 13
     
    It shows how to do mindfulness and the benefit of it
Alex S

Traditional Buddhist Mindfulness | Kagyu Africa - 0 views

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