Bill Murray on Mindfulness

Bill's response to "what do want that you don't have?"

Spire, another meditation app

There are many meditation apps, this is yet another one, Spire.  This one may be slightly different in that there is a device to sense the motion of your breathing, so there is actual feedback involved.  I found the old Resperate device, based on breath measurement and pacing, to be one of the most useful pieces of biofeedback I've come across, so maybe this simple tech can get the same job done.

Intention

Sometimes an affirmation can be a good way to change behavior.  One formula for an effective intention is this (specificity is key):

“When I encounter (a specific situation),

I will (perform the following behavior),

to (achieve specific goal.)”

From:
Real Magic: How One Sentence Triples Successful Behavior Changes

Jorge Luis Borges

From brainpickings:

Making his way through the maze of philosophy, Borges maps what he calls “this unstable world of the mind” in relation to time:

A world of evanescent impressions; a world without matter or spirit, neither objective nor subjective, a world without the ideal architecture of space; a world made of time, of the absolute uniform time of [Newton’s] Principia; a tireless labyrinth, a chaos, a dream.

Behind our faces there is no secret self which governs our acts and receives our impressions; we are, solely, the series of these imaginary acts and these errant impressions. The series? Once matter and spirit, which are continuities, are negated, once space too has been negated, I do not know what right we have to that continuity which is time.

Outside each perception (real or conjectural) matter does not exist; outside each mental state spirit does not exist; neither does time exist outside the present moment.

What If Schools Taught Kindness?

What If Schools Taught Kindness? This program from The Center for Healthy Minds answers that question.

Video: Richard Davidson - Change Your Brain by Transforming Your Mind

Researcher Richard Davidson presents Change Your Brain by Transforming Your Mind (1:09).

Including his four dimensions of wellbeing (neuroscientifically speaking):

• resilience
• positive emotion
• attention
• generosity

Talk 28: This is the Happiness of the Buddha

 
This is the Happiness of the Buddha, from PlasticBrainBlog.  Nice essay that pretty much covers it all.