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Drop Tart Tone

October 1, 2011
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Feeling a little sour? The Practice: Drop tart tone. Why? Tone matters. I remember times I felt frazzled or aggravated and then said something with an edge to it that just wasn’t necessary or useful. Sometimes it was the words themselves: such as absolutes like “never” or always,” or over-the-top phrases like “you’re such a [...]

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Love the World

August 20, 2011
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Are we really so separate? The Practice: Love the world. Why? Your brain evolved in three stages (to simplify a complex process): Reptile – Brainstem, focused on AVOIDING harm Mammal – Limbic system, focused on APPROACHING rewards Primate – Cortex, focused on ATTACHING to “us” With a fun use (to me, at least) of animal [...]

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Give Over to Good

July 1, 2011
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What is living you? The Practice: Give over to good. Why? In every moment, you and I and everyone and everything else – from quantum foam to fleeting thoughts, intimate relationships, rainforest ecosystems, and the stars themselves – are each a kind of standing wave, like the ever-changing though persistent pattern of water rising above [...]

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The Brain in a Bucket

April 7, 2010
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Have you ever seen a real brain? I remember the first time I saw one, in a neuropsych class: the instructor put on rubber gloves to protect against the formaldehyde preservative, popped the lid off of a lab bucket, and then pulled out a brain. It didn’t look like much, a nondescript waxy yellowish-white blob [...]

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