This video, Raising Compassion, brings together a diverse group of neuroscientists, mental health professionals, and Buddhist monks in a remarkable exchange between science, art, and contemplative practice. In a series of informal conversations about compassion, initiated by neuroscientist Tania Singer and artist Olafur Eliasson, the protagonists discuss the public perception of compassion, talk about compassion-training […]
Learn Focusing
September 19, 2013 by
In yesterday’s article, we learned an interesting thing about focusing on the body from Dr. Eugene Gendlin. In today’s video, Dr. Eugene Gendlin explains how to learn focusing. There are six steps to focusing: Clearing a Space: How are you? What’s between you and feeling fine? Don’t answer, let what comes in your body do […]
Focusing On The Body
September 18, 2013 by
These words of wisdom are for focusing on the body. They were taught by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, a philosopher and psychotherapist who was very influential in my life. He was a protege of Carl Rogers. He is known for his development of a phenomenological approach to therapy which he called focusing. “Focusing shows how to […]
The Problem Of Consciousness
September 17, 2013 by
The problem of consciousness is probably the most difficult problem in biology, physics, and mathematics today. This video features Dr. Christof Koch, a professor of biology and engineering at Caltech and author of Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist. He is also the Chief Scientific Officer for the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, […]
Is Your Teacher Stressed Out?
September 2, 2013 by
Is your teacher stressed out? A new study shows that mindfulness meditation training can help reduce teacher stress and burnout. The study was done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Lisa Flock in the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center. CIHM and the Waisman Center are run by Dr. Richie Davidson […]
Recipe For Life
August 3, 2013 by
In this video, scientists in Manchester, England have successfully created a building block of RNA in the laboratory. John Sutherland and his collaborators at the University of Manchester began to search for the recipe for life. They created conditions in their laboratory that mimicked the conditions of the early earth. Unlike other efforts of this […]
What Remains Of The Buddha’s Body?
July 30, 2013 by
In the PBS series, Secrets of the Dead, historian Charles Allen investigates what remains of the Buddha’s body in an episode named Bones of the Buddha. This very interesting story was encased in controversy since the discovery of a stupa in Piprahwa, Northern India. This happens to be located in the ancient land of the […]
Meditation Increases Compassion
July 24, 2013 by
A recent study reported in New York Times on The Morality of Meditation showed that meditation increases compassion. The study was done by Professor David DeSteno at Northeastern University with 39 volunteers divided into two groups. 20 were trained in mindfulness meditation and 19 other were put on a waiting list. Dr. DeSteno reported, After […]
The Compassionate Instinct
July 15, 2013 by
The compassionate instinct is a term coined by the University of California, Berkeley professor of psychology, Dacher Keltner. He was one of the contributors to the Sounds True series on The Compassionate Brain hosted by Rick Hanson. His topic was The Evolution of Compassion: From Gene to Meme. According to Compassion: Our First Instinct, an […]
The Brain Is Not The Mind
July 8, 2013 by
In the modern field of neuroscience, there are two extreme positions that ignore the simple fact that the brain is not the mind. According to David Brooks, an accomplished New York Times columnist, these two extremes are: At the lowbrow level, there are the conference circuit neuro-mappers. These are people who take pretty brain-scan images […]
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