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A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
The breath as an anchor
When you bring awareness to your breath, it is this breath, in this moment – not last year’s breath or tomorrow’s breath. The breath is closely connected to the body, and also to the mind; it is a link or bridge between the two. When you tune in to your breathing, your body and…
Listening to the body from the inside
When we go running or to the gym or to pilates class we may push through pain to exert our control over the body. When we eat, how often do we find that ‘our eyes are bigger than our stomach’ or that we are satisfying cravings that have little to do with what the body really…
Exercise Is Good … But It Won't Help You Lose Weight, Say Doctors | Society | The Guardian
Calories burning and metabolism
The thing that's missing for people who assume that exercising more while eating the same amount = weight loss is that the resting metabolism decreases (as the body gets more efficient from the improved heart/ lung condition etc.), so the increase in calories burned during…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
In the dream we have the source of all metaphysics
Dreams.—In the dream, mankind, in epochs of crude primitive civilization, thought they were introduced to a second, substantial world: here we have the source of all metaphysic. Without the dream, men would never have been incited to an analysis of the world. Even the…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Intelligence requires a body
The degree to which embodiment is significant remains a controversial issue. Rodney Brooks goes as far as to say, “Intelligence requires a body.” For example, the design of a robot body will determine the sensory phenomena it experiences.
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
Una forma di possesso reciproco
Una parte di lei continua a registrare la differenza di forme e consistenze rispetto a Viviane: di peso, di proporzioni, di parti anatomiche, certo. Ma è una parte che si riduce sempre più, con ogni movimento e con ogni respiro, fino quasi a dissolversi nella combinazione di…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Stai come un albero, muoviti come il vento
Stai in piedi come un albero, siedi come una roccia, muoviti come il vento. * (Proverbio Cinese)
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Una notte di zanzare e di caldo
La stanza è piena di zanzare straordinariamente cattive e persistenti: lui ha la schiena e le gambe e le braccia e le mani e perfino lo spazio tra le dita che gli pizzicano in modo insopportabile. Si gira tra le lenzuola pesanti di sudore, scivola fuori dal letto, attraversa la…
Osx Dictionary
Quango (dictionary definition)
noun ( pl. quangos ) Brit. chiefly derogatory a semipublic administrative body outside the civil service but receiving financial support from the government, which makes senior appointments to it. ORIGIN 1970s (originally US): acronym from quasi (or quasi-autonomous)…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Every act of pity is a kind of prayer
Dead and naked he looked thinner, feebler somehow. I should’ve pitied him. Even if we never pity them at any other time, and in any other way, we should pity the dead when we look at them, and touch them. Pity is the one part of love that asks for nothing in return and, because…
Stelarc // Ear On Arm
Someone in venice could listen to what my ear is hearing in melbourne
During the second procedure a miniature microphone was positioned inside the ear. At the end of the surgery, the inserted microphone was tested successfully. Even supported with a partial plaster cast, the arm fully wrapped and the surgeon speaking with his face mask on, the…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Somatic symptoms take center stage
Seemingly I was involved in a new cycle of trips. They weren’t like any previous ones: first and foremost because each one was the same, something that had never happened before. There was no beauty . . . no terror . . . no madcap humor. All that remained from earlier sessions…
Perinatal means every shock to the body
Belatedly, I saw the full extent of what Grof had meant by “perinatal” experience: not just what I, and I suspect many other people who read his early books, tend to reduce exclusively to the birth trauma, but all the other shocks inflicted upon and recorded by the physical…
Trauma coded in the body
The coding of trauma in the physical body is an enormous subject; and the two cents’ worth of personal understanding I have of it comes down to a hunch that the convulsive body tremors are of key importance. At the time of these sessions the only analogy I had was from the work…
Seeing sight itself
Whenever I had approached such intensity before there’d been a whirring, then cracking sound in my head; this time, however, it wasn’t sound but sight that started to disintegrate. Vision went pointillist. It began to break down into pixels. The world started to go grainy…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
A single bio-electronic body
All information will come in by super-realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning stage or barely imagined. In one way this will enable the individual to extend himself anywhere without moving his body—even to distant regions of space. But this will…
Wanting to be admired for trivial tricks
it will often happen that when you tell a girl how beautiful she is, she will say, “Now isn’t that just like a man! All you men think about is bodies. OK, so I’m beautiful, but I got my body from my parents and it was just luck. I prefer to be admired for myself, not my…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The self is not a thing but a process
The fragility and robustness of the self is therefore no paradox, but another riddle that makes perfect sense when you understand enough about it. In short, the robustness of the self lies in the fact that it is not a thing at all, but a product of the complex interaction of…
Persons are not the same as their bodies
As he summarises it, ‘My argument has been that knowledge of what has happened to a person’s body and its parts will not necessarily give you knowledge of what has happened to the person, and so, that persons are not the same as their bodies.’
Brains and bodies suffice for consciousness
To this we need to add another compelling fact: if you have a sufficiently complex brain and body, you will be conscious. Combined with the first fact, most people would conclude that brains and bodies are both necessary and sufficient for human consciousness: you can’t think…
Mind is embodied and socially situated
any respectable theory will completely agree that mind is what it is because of how it is embodied and socially situated. To say that the social self matters to self-image therefore doesn’t undermine the idea we keep coming back to: our identity is essentially rooted in a…
Physical yet not essentially physical
On the one hand, I’ve been arguing that we are entirely physical, and that we have no material souls. But on the other, I insist we are not our brains or our bodies, and that our identity is defined by psychological continuity. We seem to be wholly physical yet oddly not…
Ratiocentrism and the neglected body
It is important to stress the physical basis of personhood in order to answer critics who argue that the contemporary philosophy of personal identity suffers from the same disability that has plagued western philosophy since its inception: it is so centred on rational thought…
Descartes: not a sailor in a ship
a philosopher of Descartes’ undoubted genius is not going to completely miss the fact that this ego is very much embodied. In a passage often quoted by those seeking to defend Descartes against the charge of ignoring the body, he writes: ‘Nature also teaches me, by these…
Descartes' error: emotion supports reason
The legacy of Descartes has also come under attack in neuroscience, explicitly so in the case of Antonio Damasio, who called one of his books Descartes’ Error. Damasio’s target is not just the general separation of mind and body, but the distinction between reason and emotion…
Mind and body are not different orders
Descartes’ error was to think that mind and body are of different orders, not that mind exists.
The five aggregates
Strip that away and you are left, in Buddhism, with the ‘five aggregates’: body, feelings, perception, mental formations and consciousness. The self, as Batchelor puts it, ‘is neither reducible to them nor can it be understood as existing independently of them.’ No more than…
My soul is not me
Aquinas, for instance, believed in the existence of immaterial souls but wrote, ‘Soul is not the whole human being, only part of one: my Soul is not me.’2 Little wonder that the future Pope Benedict, then Cardinal Ratzinger, could write nearly 800 years later: ‘We have…
Soul means the whole embodied man
‘Scripture contains no word denoting only the body (separated and distinguished from the soul),’ wrote Ratzinger, ‘while conversely in the vast majority of cases the word soul, too, means the whole corporeally existing man.’4
Bodily resurrection without dualism
If we reject dualism and believe that bodily resurrection is necessary for an afterlife, do we have any good reasons to think it will happen? The idea is clearly a hard sell in the contemporary world. You might well ask, ‘Is this not all completely absurd, quite contrary to our…
Not betting on eschatological resurrection
For anyone who lacks the sure faith to simply trust that things must turn out as they are described in the Bible, no matter how incoherent they may seem to us, the traditional Christian idea of the physical resurrection of the dead seems implausible, if not entirely impossible…