If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.
