The Gift of Trauma. By Satya Kaur Trauma can be defined as a state in which our normal capacity to navigate and respond appropriately is overwhelmed.
Then we will seek coping mechanisms because we do not know what to do. We become numb with the accumulated tension and we leave the state of presence in which we experience our wholeness. Yogi Bhajan describes it this way: “Understanding is not blocked by knowledge. As yogis, we understand that as we incarnate into our bodies, we choose the parents and environments to provide the life lessons that are not yet completed from past lives.
Breathing modulates brain activity and mental function. The rhythm of breathing co-ordinates electrical activity across a network of brain regions associated with smell, memory, and emotions, and can enhance their functioning, according to a new study by researchers at Northwestern University.
The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggest that breathing does not merely supply oxygen to the brain and body, but may also organise the activity of populations of cells within multiple brain regions to help orchestrate complex behaviours. Nearly 75 years ago, the British physiologist Edgar Adrian used electrodes to record brain activity in hedgehogs, and found that brain waves in the olfactory system were closely coupled to breathing, with their size and frequency being directly related to the speed at which air moves through the nose.
Children integrating their senses. Two of the pieces that I have wanted to discuss appear together in Current Biology, both on evidence of sensory integration in adults compared to their integration in children.
Nature News carried a story about both articles, One sense at a time, by Matt Kaplan. As Kaplan explains, the research generally supports the idea that: ‘Adults readily integrate sight, sound, smell, taste and touch in their everyday lives without a second thought. 9-qualities-of-remarkably-confident-people-th. I'm not particularly confident.
Scratch that. I'm situationally confident: sometimes, very much so; other times, not at all. So I spend a lot of time thinking about how to gain confidence. And that makes me wonder. In a world of "fake it till you make it," how can you tell when someone is truly confident--in his or her ideas, plans, and self--and, just as important, that the person's confidence is justified? Better yet, how do you know when your sense of self-confidence is justified? Understand uncertainty: probabilities. Probabilities and statistics: they are everywhere, but they are hard to understand and can be counter-intuitive.
So what's the best way of communicating them to an audience that doesn't have the time, desire, or background to get stuck into the numbers? Ian Short explores modern visualisation techniques and finds that the right picture really can be worth a thousand words. Visualising probabilities: an example What is the probability that a woman who tests positive for breast cancer actually has breast cancer? To pin this question down, let us consider a population in which 1% of women have breast cancer, and a mammography test which has a 90% chance of returning a correct result. You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you. Comics Blog Books Shop Comics: Random Most Popular All Cats Grammar Food Animals Tech This is a comic about the backfire effect.
Inspiration This comic was inspired by this three-part series on the backfire effect from the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. USC Creativity and Brain Institute Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counterevidence By Sarah Gimbel and Sam Harris. Other fun reading Reddit - Change My View Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions. The Warrior Sage. When people think of the philosophy of the Warrior Sage, they often think of it as being harsh. It often contradicts their idea of spirituality. Warrior does imply fighting, so I suppose that throws people off a bit. Warrior means brave or experienced fighter. Fact, Opinion, False Claim, or Untested Claim. Click here for a translation into Serbian by Branca Fiagic.
Fact Opinion False claim Untested claim A thorny issue in critical reading involves the ambiguous terms fact and opinion Let's begin with opinion. There is no need to argue against opinions when they are recognized as self-reports rather than as claims about the real world. About Critical Thinking. How Does Multitasking Change the Way Kids Learn? Using tech tools that students are familiar with and already enjoy using is attractive to educators, but getting students focused on the project at hand might be more difficult because of it.
Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students—in middle school, high school, and college, 263 in all—opened their books and turned on their computers. For a quarter of an hour, the investigators from the lab of Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University-Dominguez Hills, marked down once a minute what the students were doing as they studied. Category:Paradoxes. Ethic.ally. Holistic.ally. PHILOSOPHIES. Symbolic.Ally. Brains in Oper.ability. Multiply Intelligences. Bridge Between.