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Sensory Acuity Exercises: Olfactory/Gustatory Acuity

August 6, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: exercises, gustatory acuity, NLP, olfactory acuity, Practice, sensory acuity

Sensory Acuity Exercises: Auditory Acuity

August 5, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: auditory acuity, exercises, NLP, Practice, sensory acuity

Sensory Acuity Exercises: Visual Acuity

August 4, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: exercises, NLP, Practice, sensory acuity, visual acuity

Sensory Acuity Exercises: Kinesthetic Acuity

August 3, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: exercises, kinesthetic acuity, NLP, Practice, sensory acuity

Turbocharge Your Practicing

July 13, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: arpeggios, breathing, confidence, deliberate practice, goals, GTD, harmonics, LifeHacks, musical development, MusicHacks, Nathan Davis, overtones, Practice, practice schedule, Practicing, saxophone, technique

Men’s Health Rocks!

June 20, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: diet, feeds, fitness, health, Practice, RSS

The Ear Training You Do Today…

June 4, 2006 By Graham English

...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...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brain, cognitrons, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, neurons, Practice, synapses

Tree Of Contemplative Practices

June 4, 2006 By Graham English

Found via Tree of Contemplative Practices: This chart is provided by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Practice

Inventions And Creations Inspired By Dreams

May 13, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, dreams, genius, image streaming, lucid dreaming, Practice, True Home

Science As Practice

March 24, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Opinion, Prose Tagged With: future, Integral, Practice, Science, subjectivity, transcend and include, Upper Left

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