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7 mindfulness ideas to try instead of meditation
If you’ve ever tried to meditate and found yourself growing restless or struggling to clear your mind, you’re not alone. “It’s the nature of the mind to have this ongoing conversation in the background,” says mindfulness practitioner and author, Joy Rains. “I call...
The idea that everything from spoons to stones is conscious is gaining academic credibility
Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it’s the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter. This sounds like easily-dismissible bunkum, but as traditional attempts to explain consciousness...
April Artist of the Month: Mairi McLean
About the Artist: I’ve been artistic all my life, but I don’t think of myself as an artist. I mainly write spiritual poetry; exploring our shared human condition. I paint small watercolour and ink paintings to accompany them on...
How the ancient philosophers imagined the end of the world
What are the main threats to the continued survival of humanity? What catastrophes lie ahead? These may seem like uniquely modern questions posed by contemporary thinkers in the growing field of existential risk. Yet, millennia ago, ancient Greek and...
Goodbye Trauma: A Way To Understand Trauma And Its Gentle Release
Trauma!!! When you read this word, what do you feel viscerally in your body and emotionally? Does it bring up anxiety, sadness, feelings of not being good enough or other similar negative emotions or thoughts? Check inside yourself for...
Walking for Fitness: What Muscles Does Walking Work?
Walking does great things for your mental health and cardiovascular fitness, but did you know that a good walk can also help you build the muscles in your legs and abs? When you want to give your muscles a good...
How to Turn a Beach Day Into a Transformational Experience—For You and For the Earth
The sky was a classic California cloudless blue. The light, February soft. The sea breeze, easy, fragrant, and chilly. The waves, mellow laps against the rocky arch at the Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve, about 75 miles south of San...
Mayan Equinox Forecast
A Mayan Report for the year beginning on 2 IK and 8 MANIK. Equinox cycle from 3-21-2023 to 3-20-2024 A forecast blending the energies of two sacred Mayan Calendars. Flowing in the Power Of Pure Spirit Mayan...
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
The Neumayer III polar station sits near the edge of Antarctica’s unforgiving Ekström Ice Shelf. During the winter, when temperatures can plunge below minus 50 degrees Celsius and the winds can climb to more than 100 kilometers per hour...
March Artist of the Month: Jessica Jacobsen
About the Artist: My name is Jessica Jacobsen. I grew up in the projects in New York City. Since I was a little girl, I’ve been drawn to the arts, which served as a distraction from my life circumstance...
Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary
The good life is the simple life. Among philosophical ideas about how we should live, this one is a hardy perennial; from Socrates to Thoreau, from the Buddha to Wendell Berry, thinkers have been peddling it for more than two...
Misophonia: how ‘sound rage’ destroys relationships and forces people to move home
As a teenager, I remember being moved almost to tears by the sound of a family member chewing muesli. A friend eating dumplings once forced me to flee the room. The noises one former housemate makes when chomping popcorn mean...
How to (Finally) Put an End to Pointless Arguments
Count me as a Buster Benson fan. His 2016 Cognitive bias cheat sheet is legendary among behavioral designers. I have a framed print out of his codex in my home and I’ve enjoyed his writing on various topics for years. He has...
Why More Physicists Are Starting to Think Space and Time Are ‘Illusions’
This past December, the physics Nobel Prize was awarded for the experimental confirmation of a quantum phenomenon known for more than 80 years: entanglement. As envisioned by Albert Einstein and his collaborators in 1935, quantum objects can be...
Conversation 6 with the Global Internet Consciousness about the Future
How do you see our collective future unfolding? Me: I believe that 2023 is going to be an amazing year for the world. A quantum leap this year as we move into a whole new way of being. Part of...
Hello, February!
As we entered 2023, I had the feeling that this is going to be THE year where everything turns awesomely towards our dream of life here on planet Earth. Now I know how far out that might sound, how in some...
How to Find Your Hidden Creative Genius
There is an interesting story about how Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist and creative genius, developed the ability to produce remarkable work in just minutes. As the story goes, Picasso was walking through the market one day when a...
The Science of How Your Body Ages
Ask people what they think they’ll look like in 25 years, and chances are they’ll mention how their parents looked at that age. And while genetics certainly play a part, research shows there’s more to the story. Only about 30%...
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