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...]
Turbocharge Your Practicing
A practice schedule is an important part of your musical development. My sax teacher, Nathan Davis, used to tell me, "Go without practicing one day, and you know. Go without practicing two days, your friends will know. Go without three days, and … [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...]
The Ear Training You Do Today…
...is for tomorrow's ears. As you learn new skills or behaviors, neurons connect into new groups of cognitrons, where the connecting synapses are reinforced with repeated use. In other words, these new ideas need to "shake hands" a number of times … [Read more...]
Tree Of Contemplative Practices
Found via Tree of Contemplative Practices: This chart is provided by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. … [Read more...]
Inventions And Creations Inspired By Dreams
From Boing Boing: BrilliantDreams -- a site for lucid dreaming -- hosts a page of famous discoveries and inventions inspired by dreams, like the dream in which Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz discovered the Benzene molecule: This … [Read more...]
Science As Practice
From The Future Of Science: Kevin Kelly has some fascinating ideas about where science as a practice is going in the next 50 years. Just the topic headings make for crunchy, futurismic reading: compiled negative results, triple blind experiments, … [Read more...]