How one scientist is blending ancient philosophy with modern neuroscience to fight addiction by Michael W. Taft Heart racing and fists shaking, I stood ready to fight. I was moments away from sparring with the… Read More »Flow State Machine: Hacking the Human Brain for Healing and Wellbeing
Are you feeling stuck in your mindfulness practice? Did meditation lead to big, positive life changes early on, but now years later you’re just sort of treading water with no sense of making progress? Mindfulness… Read More »Escaping the Observer Trap: Free Yourself by Observing the Observer
by Jessica Graham “In these bodies we will live. In these bodies we will die” – Mumford & Sons Today is the first day of my Holiday vacation and I plan to spend it at… Read More »Listening to the Body
by Michael W. Taft If you cannot focus on one thing at a time, or cannot maintain attention on one thing for as long as you want to, that is distraction. Distraction dilutes brain power,… Read More »Five Easy Ways of Undoing Distraction
By Jessica Graham “Like someone is trying to slice my sternum open from the inside of my body.” “Like prickly pins in my stomach.” “It feels like a hollowness of air in… Read More »Broken Heart/Open Heart
by Jessica Graham Part One My meditation practice has helped me with all kinds of things. I don’t lose my keys as often. I don’t have meaningless sex with strangers. I don’t wake up with… Read More »Dying With Dad
by Michael W. Taft Recently, I found a meditation retreat center in rural Massachusetts. Its super-affordable price included a room of my own, and delicious, organic hippy food. As I was moving to a new… Read More »Downtime for the Stone Age Brain
by Michael W. Taft Concentration is the eternal secret of every mortal achievement – Stefan Zweig There is an ancient story from India that tells of five young princes who were practicing archery in the… Read More »Concentration: An Iterative Approach to Focusing the Mind