Mind

SOME OF THESE WILL SURPRISE YOU, FROM BEING TIRED FOR OPTIMAL CREATIVITY TO KEEPING A STEADY NOISE-LEVEL FOR YOUR CREATIVE BEST. BY BELLE BETH COOPER We’ve written about creativity a few times on the Buffer blog, but it’s hard to keep track of everything we learn about it. One day I’m adjusting the temperature in

By Jeff Kuhland recently taught a workshop for MovNat and was inspired by one of my participants. We normally get a group of motivated, intelligent, and creative people taking our workshops, but this man was truly inspiring. At 61 years old he can do pull ups, jump, balance, and run. He inspired me because of his

We tend to see body, breath, and mind separately, but in zazen they come together as one reality. The first thing to pay attention to is the position of the body in zazen. The body has a way of communicating outwardly to the world and inwardly to oneself. How you position your body has a lot to

by Warren Williams We spend so much of our time working for money, working out our bodies for a look we are happy with and working out what foods are best for our biochemistry. In this busy western world we are always in the state of doing or actively using energy in the state known

Scientists Try To Train the Brain in the Gut To Feel Full With Less Food By GAUTAM NAIK A group of Nestle SA researchers here are on an unusual mission: They hope to create new foods based on gut instinct. Not the type of instinct one normally equates with intuitive decision-making, but the sophisticated processes that

A reconstructed skeleton of Lucy, the famous human ancestor. By 3.2 million years ago, Australopithecines were walking upright, imposing strict limits on the size of the female pelvis.Cleveland Museum of Natural History Looking around our planet today, it’s hard not to be struck by humanity’s uniqueness. We are the only species around that writes books,

Ever feel like you can’t turn your brain off? Worried about how to stop worrying? We all deal with this when life gets challenging. There is a way to overcome worry that doesn’t involve alcohol or a straitjacket. The answer is thousands of years old — but now science is validating those ancient ideas. You’ve probably even heard of it:

Our emotional and physical health are inextricably linked. Whether we’re happy or sad, our bodies respond physically to the way we think, feel and act. Anastasia Stephens finds out how. The argument you’ve just had with your lover has left your blood boiling. You phone a friend, who makes light of it and, before long,

By GREGORY HICKOK IN 1890, the American psychologist William James famously likened our conscious experience to the flow of a stream. “A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described,” he wrote. “In talking of it hereafter, let’s call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life.” While

by Vidya McNeill “I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for.”–Georgia O’Keefe Have you ever felt that the world pressures you to be action-oriented if you are going to succeed? I don’t know about you, but I lose track of myself by all the doing I