fact melts away the fear…
Archive for July, 2020
A Habit of ‘Meditative Mind’
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020According to MIT researchers, the power of habit starts with a simple neurological loop consisting of a ‘cue’… following with a ‘routine’… while reinforced with some kind of ‘reward’ or ‘benefit’. Underlying the reward or benefit, there is often a strong belief or conviction that is fueled by a craving & yearning to sustain a […]
Awakening
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020We have truly lost our ‘way’ when fear triumphs over fact. We must remain disciplined and diligent in transforming our fears with fact and truth.
‘Unfolding With Life’s Purpose’…
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020The ‘truth’ about our own purpose in life may be closer than we think- a ‘voice’ from within that calls out to us to wake up and pay attention to something deeply visceral. Perhaps, we are too busy searching outside of ourselves… the ‘truth’ obscured as we tend to be consumed by what we have […]
Awakening
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020What we deny, distract, or avoid to ‘see’ will eventually get our attention and wake us up.
Our ‘Memory Muscle’
Monday, July 6th, 2020The hippocampus is like our brain’s ‘memory muscle’. It accounts for our ‘working memory’- or what many psychologists refer to as our ‘fluid intelligence’… helping us to learn, reason, comprehend, and problem-solve in novel situations. We use our working memory to monitor, regulate & discern the information we receive, retrieve, process, and dispose. It bridges […]
Awakening
Monday, July 6th, 2020We cannot stop the flow of our thoughts as they are relatively constant, but we can move away from them by simply focusing our attention on our breathing.
‘Balancing Signals of the Brain’
Friday, July 3rd, 2020Self-awareness helps the emotional (limbic) & thinking (prefrontal cortex) parts of our brain communicate more clearly with each other. The neurological signals sent to regulate our stimulus-response system can become more efficient, appropriate & context-sensitive when we allow them space in awareness for observation. It’s this volitional act of observation that lights up the activity […]