My Experiment: Part 5 (You can read Part 4 here: My Experiment: Part 4 – Breaking Patterns) It’s astounding how insidiously my mind continues attempting to create programs and slip into autopilot. I’m not sure why that happens. Perhaps because coasting on autopilot requires less mental energy than staying fully aware and responsive to the environment? … Continue reading Finding Balance
You can read part 3 here: My Experiment: Part 3 - Always Wanting More Costa Rica is perfect for slowing down and breaking patterns. The other day, I felt myself slipping into old patterns of thought. I rode the bus over to the next town to run errands, and I encountered several struggles that prevented me … Continue reading My Experiment: Part 4 – Breaking Patterns
You can read Part 2 here: My Experiment: Part 2 - The Return Now that I’m away from all the situations that trigger my automatic responses, and slowing down my life, I’m becoming aware of the baseline programs running in my brain. I’m noticing my brain spends a lot of time planning for the future, thinking … Continue reading My Experiment: Part 3 – Always Wanting More
Photo above: my new home office You can read Part 1 here: My Experiment: Part 1 – Introduction My month-long experiment in Costa Rica yielded promising results. To recap, the goal of the trip was to deprogram my mind, to determine if being in a different environment would facilitate breaking the patterns in my mind that … Continue reading My Experiment: Part 2 – The Return
I want to deprogram my mind. I feel like I have all these programs running through my head that have developed in response to my environment. I needed to develop these programs, because we all have to figure out how to fit in to our environment. But often, the programs get out of control, they … Continue reading My Experiment: Part 1 – Introduction
This past spring, I noticed the a steady stream of bees flying in and out of a tiny hole in the ground in the narrow walkway between my house and garage. It must be the entrance to a hive. My landlord had left a can of wasp and ant killer in the garage, but with … Continue reading Bee Mindful
“Killing time”, that’s an interesting choice of words. When you’re bored, you have time to kill, you’re waiting for something better to happen. The way this phrase is worded, we tend to think “killing” is used as an action: we’re killing time, reducing the amount of time between now and some future event. But what … Continue reading Killing Time
Musings on the Light Inside Listen to the song here: The Light Inside By Reaction Mass I can feel it the light inside of me Shining through from Eternity I am light light is me http://www.reactionmassmusic.com This is a song about meditation, about the experiences I have when my … Continue reading The Light Inside
I first started sensing the void during graduate school. After college, in my early 20s, sometimes I would get in a funk, for no good reason. Life in graduate school was pretty good. It didn’t pay much, but it was a pretty good lifestyle. I had lots of friends, girlfriends, and a promising career path. … Continue reading The Void
