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Eight Habits that Improve Cognitive Function
Digital games are incapable of giving the entire brain a full workout. These digital programs can't really exercise the cerebellum (Latin: "Little Brain") and, therefore, are literally only training half your brain. These "brain-training workouts" are the equivalent of only ever doing upper body workouts, without ever working out your lower body. Although the cerebellum is only 10 percent of brain volume, it houses over 50 percent of the brain's total neurons. Brain-Training Games Increase Sedentary Screen Time In the recent New York Times article, Tara Parker-Pope concludes that, “While there is no real risk to participating in the many unproven brain-training games available online and through smartphones, experts say, consumers should know that the scientific jury is still out on whether they are really boosting brain health or just paying hundreds of dollars to get better at a game.” Eight Habits that Improve Cognitive Function 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Kierkegaard on Our Greatest Source of Unhappiness
by Maria Popova Hope, memory, and how our chronic compulsion to flee from our own lives robs us of living. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard memorably wrote in reflecting on why presence matters more than productivity. “On how one orients himself to the moment depends the failure or fruitfulness of it,” Henry Miller asserted in his beautiful meditation on the art of living. And yet we spend our lives fleeing from the present moment, constantly occupying ourselves with overplanning the future or recoiling with anxiety over its impermanence, thus invariably robbing ourselves of the vibrancy of aliveness. Kierkegaard, who was only thirty at the time, begins with an observation all the timelier today, amidst our culture of busy-as-a-badge-of-honor: Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. The unhappy one is absent. Consider first the hoping individual. Donating = Loving
Positive Psychology Resources, Happiness, Tips and Techniques
Eight Steps Towards a More Satisfying Life Sonja Lyubomirsky, University of California. This is more of a ?summary? Count your blessingsKeep a ?
Maya Angelou on Identity and the Meaning of Life
by Maria Popova “Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.” The light of the world has grown a little dimmer with the loss of the phenomenal Maya Angelou, but her legacy endures as a luminous beacon of strength, courage, and spiritual beauty. Reflecting on her life, Angelou — who rose to cultural prominence through the sheer tenacity of her character and talent, despite being born into a tumultuous working-class family, abandoned by her father at the age of three, and raped at the age of eight — tells Rich: I’ve been very fortunate… I seem to have a kind of blinkers. She later revisits the question of identity, echoing Leo Buscaglia’s beautiful meditation on labels, as she reflects on the visibility her success granted her and the responsibility that comes with it: What I represent in fact, what I’m trying like hell to represent every time I go into that hotel room, is myself. The kindnesses … I never forget them. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
How thinking affects feelings | kidsmatter.edu.au
This material is also available in a PDF format: How thinking affects feelings [279KB]pdf Understanding that what we think affects how we feel and how we behave helps children and adults learn effective ways of managing emotions. As shown in the following examples, unhelpful thoughts lead us to feel bad and can stop us from doing what we want to do. Ben thinks:I’m so dumb – everyone is better at school than me. Sharni thinks:I’m never going to make any friends at this new school. Rachael thinks:I wrote a good story in class yesterday. Some examples of unhelpful thinking and helpful alternatives are listed in this table: Challenging unhelpful thinking(content changes below) Unhelpful thinking is very common in both children and adults.
Lucid Dreaming Techniques: A Guide To Lucid Dream Induction
Here are my top lucid dreaming techniques for beginners. They range from simple memory exercises (like Reality Checks and Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams) to specialized meditation (like Wake Induced Lucid Dreams). Lucid Dreaming Tutorials For step-by-step tutorials and audio tools for lucid dream induction and exploration, check out my Lucid Dreaming Fast Track study program for beginners and beyond. 52 Ways to Have Lucid Dreams A complete list of 52 ways to have lucid dreams - based on visualization, memory, supplements, sleep cycles and more methods than you can shake a stick at. How to Have Lucid Dreams A summary of my favorite lucid dreaming techniques, from improving dream recall, to programming your dreams, to meditation and self-hypnosis. How to Remember Your Dreams To lucid dream, you must first remember your dreams. Keeping a Dream Journal How to Perform Reality Checks How to Improve Your Self Awareness Lucid Dreams and Prospective Memory Dream Induced Lucid Dreams (DILDs)
Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology
When I was president of the American Psychological Association,they tried to media-train me,and an encounter I had with CNNsummarizes what I'm going to be talking about today,which is the eleventh reason to be optimistic.The editor of Discover told us 10 of them,I'm going to give you the eleventh. So they came to me -- CNN -- and they said, "Professor Seligman,would you tell us about the state of psychology today?We'd like to interview you about that." And I said, "Great."And she said, "But this is CNN, so you only get a sound bite." (Laughter) And cameras rolled, and she said, "Professor Seligman,what is the state of psychology today?"" "Cut. "Look, Doctor Seligman,we can see you're really not comfortable in this medium.We'd better give you a real sound bite.This time you can have three words.Professor Seligman, what is the state of psychology today?"" So, why was psychology good? But watch out here. Len is an introvert.American women said to Len, when he dated them,"You're no fun.
