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Archive for December, 2011

The ‘Inten•Sati’ Method & Brain Function

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Can aerobic exercise change your brain? There is growing evidence that it can. An informative overview of this ongoing research along with some real promising results can be watched in a TedxTalks video discussion by award-winning neuroscientist, Wendy Suzuki. She looks at how aerobic exercise using ‘Inten•Sati’ instruction can potentially improve learning, cognition, and memory. […]

Awakening

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Beneath the ‘narrative self’ lies the ‘raw essence’ of our being. It is here where the light of our nature illuminates the mystery of life.

Awakening

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Mindful awareness disturbs our neural firings for habitualness and emotional reactivity.

Awakening

Monday, December 12th, 2011

We filter sensation through our memory to make the future more predictable… and in this process lose the direct experience of the present moment.

Awakening

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

How we regulate our embodied and relational information and energy conditions our general health and well-being.

Awakening

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Reflective self-observation decouples our automaticity- our habitualness to remain rigidly affixed to our thoughts, feelings, images, sensations, and ideas of who we are- and how we are.

Awakening

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Reflective awareness that is intended seeds and strengthens our capacity for purposeful receptivity, objective self-observation, and reflexivity of knowing.

Awakening

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

In awareness, when reflection is open and receptive, we are freed to resonate with our own authentic experience.

Awakening

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

  When reflective awareness becomes reflexive- the process has shifted from effortful to effortless attention. We become reflexively aware of being aware…

Video: Exploring How Mindfulness Can Transform Education

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

The ‘Mindful Revolution: Exploring How Mindfulness Can Transform Education’ is a student-run initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, exploring how mindfulness, positive psychology, and character development can transform our education system from the inside out—at the level of the students themselves. Their goal is to raise awareness on the implications of minding one’s internal health—emotionally, […]