Half Full
Our remarkable ability to self-repair is one of many useful byproducts of evolution. But we have to be “at peace” for these mechanisms to begin working.
Eric Gower
208 PostsPosts by Eric Gower
Begin Again
If you find yourself lost in thought and can somehow become aware that you’re lost in thought, a decision to begin again instantly snaps you from your reverie and back into the present.
Placebo
Placebos are real, and we can use them to our advantage.
Pause
Short pauses, extended pauses ... both feel really good, and both are necessary.
Listen
Listening is magic. It's amazing what happens when you fully do it, and stop doing other things.
Eyes Open
When your eyes first open in the morning, what do you do?
Rapt
If we could just stay focused on the right things, our lives would stop feeling like a reaction to stuff that happens to us.
Using Matcha to "Predecide" Outcomes
There's a whole body of research on something called "implementation intention" -- a snoozer of a phrase if there ever was one. But it's relevant to us, bigtime.
Matcha, Andy Goldsworthy, and Ephemerality
Goldsworthy's work is the embodiment of a Japanese aethetic ideal known as mono no aware, the awareness of impermanence and how nothing, ultimately, lasts very long.
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