During your morning meal, eat as you would normally, noticing what you see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. For your second meal, prepare the meal as you would normally but when you sit down to eat, keep your eyes closed until you've finished. Notice … [Read more...]
Sensory Acuity Exercises: Auditory Acuity
While talking on the telephone today, notice the qualities of each caller's voice. Is their voice high or low pitched, loud or soft? Write down as many characteristics as you are able to discern and then compare the qualities of each caller (You can … [Read more...]
Sensory Acuity Exercises: Visual Acuity
Sometime today, preferably during a quiet moment, look out across a familiar outdoor scene. Maybe your back yard or the view from your office window. Notice any small movements in your field of vision and focus in on the movement. What do you see? … [Read more...]
Sensory Acuity Exercises: Kinesthetic Acuity
The next time you take a shower, pause to notice how the water feels against your body. Notice the temperature, water pressure, whether the spray is sharp or gentle, and how the water feels as it rolls off your body. Notice if these feelings are … [Read more...]
Mandatory Space Travel To Expand The Mind
Marc Garneau thinks peace would break out everywhere if political leaders had the opportunity to orbit the earth. You go around the earth in 90 minutes and see 16 sunrises and sunsets. You can see 2000 km in front of you. You see the extremely … [Read more...]
Tonight’s Blessing Moon
This fullest moon is to remind us of the light even in night, and it serves as a wishing moon. Legend has it that if, under this moon, you write down your hopes and dreams for the coming Fall on a scrap of paper and leave it to sit out all night, … [Read more...]
“Neurogenesis Is An Optimistic Idea.”
The mind is like a muscle: it swells with exercise. Gould's and Kozorovitskiy's work reminds us not only how easy it is to hurt a brain, but how little it takes for that brain to heal. Give a primate just a few extra playthings, and its neurons are … [Read more...]
Men’s Health Rocks!
I've been reading Men's Health off and on for many years now. But when you add their RSS feed to the mix, look out! BTW, it's strange that I haven't posted about fitness until now. Or is it? The reason I say it's strange is because it's such a … [Read more...]
From The Academy Of Linguistic Awareness: Saying “Like” Makes You Sound Dumb
From Billboard: Saying "like" makes you sound dumb: More... … [Read more...]
Tag According To Benefit
Most people tag things based on subject or meaning. That's really useful to find information fast. But I thought it would be a good idea to ask myself, "Why am I searching for this information? What's the benefit I want to get out of it?" So now … [Read more...]
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