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Self Awareness - How self aware are you? | Diigo - 0 views

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    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 02 Oct 13
       
      It's very blunt in saying to ignore every other advice and therapy, mainly cause it's true. You are the therapist for yourself in order to become self aware and mindful
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JSTOR: Cancer Causes & Control, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Jul., 2009), pp. 775-784 - 0 views

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      Samuel Sirota on 02 Oct 13
       
      physical activity increasing life expectancy 
  • Samuel Sirota on 02 Oct 13
     
    Cancer Cause & Control
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Self Awareness | Diigo - 0 views

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      Brian Walsh on 02 Oct 13
       
      Becoming self aware can help a person improve their life by finding out their problems
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 02 Oct 13
       
      This is a new point: awareness/mindfulness in relationships. I guess it can help you become more open and understanding to your partner
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 02 Oct 13
       
      Mindfulness is like dancing: we have to keep track of all our moves and motions and presence
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JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

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    • Samuel Sirota
      Samuel Sirota on 02 Oct 13
       
      good exercise satisfies active life style
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JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

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    Exercise and the Placebo Effect
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Lisa Firestone: How to Manage People Mindfully - 0 views

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      Paul Brahan on 02 Oct 13
       
      Details about Google's "adult playground" and managers using mindfulness to forge a sense of connectedness 
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Mindfulness In The Corporate World: How Businesses Are Incorporating The Eastern Practice - 1 views

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    • Paul Brahan
      Paul Brahan on 02 Oct 13
       
      Article by the Huffington Post on how Google, Target, and General Mills are using meditation in the corporate world.
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JSTOR: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Aug., 2006), pp. 20... - 0 views

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    • Samuel Sirota
      Samuel Sirota on 02 Oct 13
       
      exercise increases molecules that support the growth and survival of brain cells
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    Increasing activity
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Fashion Marketing - Tony Hines, Margaret Bruce - Google Books - 0 views

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    look at the conclusion 
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Just being - 0 views

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  • For me, the most fruitful means for self-knowledge have been music and meditation.
  • I believe that neither discipline should be limited by having to have an end result.
  • Mindfulness means paying attention, on purpose, to one's own thoughts, feelings, and judgments17—“observing the observer, observing the observed.”18 Buddhist meditation is the practice of mindfulness and requires only the belief that knowing oneself can foster compassion.1
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Buddha's Brain: Lighting up the Nureal Circuts of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom - 1 views

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  • Michelle Duffy on 02 Oct 13
     
    Mindfulness can increase certain chemicals in the brain or decease of to make the brain have certain activities levels in specific regions.
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Mindfulness: The Anxiety Cure You Ought to Know | Refine the Mind - 0 views

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  • While washing dishes or sweeping, direct your attention to the rhythm of the action. Listen closely to the swishing or scratching noises, smell the soap suds, or concentrate on your contracting muscles.
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 01 Oct 13
       
      Connect this back the article from the first project
  • We don’t often notice, but our senses of touch, smell, sight, and sound are constantly at work.
  • quiet your mind
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  • . The goal of mindful practices is to force us to be present, so we don’t waste precious days worrying.
  • Like most skills, it must be developed and refined
  • Try to quiet your mind and focus on your sensations for even 10 or 15 seconds at a tim
  • while walking, cleaning, and showering.
  • Mindfulness: A Wonderful Anxiety Cure You Ought to Know
  •  irrational form of fear.
  • Mindfulness is a practice that allows you to be content and alive in the present moment.
  • Anxieties try to tell you that something bad might happen, that you might not be good enough, or that someone might be thinking poorly of you.
  • Anxiety stems from the evolutionary by-product of exaggerated fear
  • I’ve understood for years that anxiety is counterproductive, but knowing it is and actually stopping it from affecting me are two different things.
  • Mindfulness is nearly infallible for helping to alleviate stress and worry
  • Mindfulness is a conscientious activity. It is an effort to do the opposite of what our brains naturally do.
  • When performing a task, mindfulness means directing our entire focus to that one task. No multi-tasking. No daydreaming.
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Texting, Driving and Mindfulness | 21st Century Spirituality | Big Think - 0 views

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  • save my Impreza,
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      What does this mean?
  • 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.
  • Fortunately
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The Zen of floating - The Week - 0 views

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  • were frightened of contracting HIV from infected water in float-tank centers. The business dried up.
    • Rebecca Lurie
      Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
       
      Even when a product is doing great in sales, it can plummet because of a specific even that changes everyones view.
  • creativity in artists.
  • brain's focus from its dominant to its non-dominant hemisphere
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  • can improve
    • Paul Brahan
      Paul Brahan on 30 Sep 13
       
      Very interesting article about the benefits sensory deprivation chambers provide. 
  • The saturation of Epsom salts in the water made me unnaturally buoyant — my face, stomach, and knees an archipelago of islands amid the tub's ocean.
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 01 Oct 13
       
      So you go from bored, to anxiety, to peace?
  • For a tank newbie like me, the more intriguing aspects of floating include 1) its possibly imagined, Lilly-esque potential to reveal hidden layers of consciousness within, and 2) its proven capacity to chill people out. Suedfeld happily acknowledges point two. "Anything related to psychological stress," he says, "whether it's chronic tension headaches, insomnia, things with no known physical cause…after several floats, they really seem to improve."
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 01 Oct 13
       
      Are Epsom salts supposed to give a more relaxing feeling? Could it be the salts helping or just the actual floating?
  • There was no clear line between consciousness and unconsciousness. (I had no fear of drowning, as my buoyancy was such that it would be nearly impossible to roll over accidentally.)
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7 Mindfulness Tips to Energize Your Writing | Write to Done - 0 views

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      Robert Coady on 30 Sep 13
       
      This article, instead of setting up a rigid list of guidelines, allows for the trouble one can go through when writing, and encourages you to embrace what you can't control.
  • That’s right, almost paradoxically, a state of “no-mind” can produce excellent results in your life in terms of creativity and productivity.
  • deep breath
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  • getting a ‘feel’ for what you are writing, rather than merely analyzing the content.
  • Instead of demanding of yourself that your work meet a certain standard, ask yourself “what would I like to write if I could write anything in the world?”
  • Recognize that “If’s” have their purpose, but just ask yourself if you could let go of the particular “if” for just this moment.
  • The need for perfection
  • 1. Analysis paralysis
  • Being good enough
  • Letting your opinion of yourself shape the quality of your writing is something we all do but few of us realize
  • Motivation and rationalization (“I’ll do it tomorrow”)
  • Become mindful that you are withdrawing into yourself and ruminating, rather than expressing yourself externally. Notice when you begin thinking about a task rather than doing it and ask yourself “would I rather internalize and think right now to no end or would I rather be producing something real right now?” Use mindfulness to catch yourself and transform rumination into action on-the-spot.
    • kurt stavenhagen
      kurt stavenhagen on 01 Oct 13
       
      Appreciate this post Rob. I like this tie here between mindfulness and immediate mindful action.
  • Becoming mindful of the value you assign your writing involves setting aside time every day to write and treating it as almost a “sacred space.”
  • Quick tips for mindful writing
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Mindfulness, Music Appreciation and Empathy | Patrick Groneman - 0 views

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  • Sierra Messina-Yauchzy on 30 Sep 13
     
    This touches on music, and what emotions and types of awareness it can evoke, and how these intertwine with the pillars of mindfulness.
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Seth's Blog: Ode: How to tell a great story - 0 views

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  • Great stories succeed because they are able to capture the imagination of large or important audiences.
  • A great story is true. Not necessarily because it’s factual, but because it’s consistent and authentic
  • Great stories make a promise.
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  • People don’t trust the beautiful women ordering vodka at the corner bar
  • Great stories don’t always need eight-page color brochures or a face-to-face meeting. Either you are ready to listen or you aren’t.
  • no marketer succeeds in telling a story unless he has earned the credibility to tell that story.
  • Great stories happen fast
  • Great stories are subtle
  • Great stories don’t appeal to logic
  • Great stories don’t contradict themselves
  • great stories agree with our world view.
  • Great stories are rarely aimed at everyone.
  • capture the imagination of large or important audiences.
  • bold and audacious.
  • People don’t trust the beautiful women ordering vodka at the corner bar
  • Either you are ready to listen or you aren’t.
  • the fewer details a marketer spells out, the more powerful the story becomes.
  • allowing people to draw their own conclusions is far more effective than announcing the punch line.
  • no marketer succeeds in telling a story unless he has earned the credibility to tell that story.
  • appeal to our senses.
  • med at everyone.
  • most effective stories match the world view of a tiny audience
  • audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were
  • agree with what the audience
  • agree with our world view.
    • Rebecca Lurie
      Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
       
      In the fashion world trying to find a new Fad and make it appealing to people. (great article for my essay) 
  • Great stories don’t contradict themselves
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 29 Sep 13
       
      This is probably what I struggle with most when I tell a story, and it always ruins it. 
  • Great stories are trusted
  • makes the members
  • of the audience feel smart and secure
  • Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
     
    This article relates to what my paper may be about.  I am interested in the business world.  
  • Lexy Martin on 30 Sep 13
     
    STORIES- what kind of great should they be
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Why Mindfulness is Needed For Education Innovation | Lee-Anne Gray Psy.D - 0 views

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  • Mindful awareness practices fulfill this need
  • education includes practices that train the mind to consciously and purposefully attend and regulate emotion, our students will be well prepared for anything
  • "the gap". It's the space between thoughts that is pure consciousness, pure silence, and pure peace
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  • we literally equip them with one of the most important tools for survival and success in the modern world
  • self-noticing at the root of empathy, it is perhaps, the most important social skill of the 21st century
  • By training attention and emotional regulation, we grow into kinder global citizens
  • Matt Cassidy on 30 Sep 13
     
    Why Mindfulness is Needed For Education Innovation
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