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Intermittent stress can motive you and focus your attention, improve your memory and mental and physical performance, and help you adapt.| Farther to Go!
Intermittent stress can motive you and focus your attention, improve your memory and mental and physical performance, and help you adapt.| Farther to Go!
No. There you go; you can stop reading and move on with your life, unless you, too have ever wondered what the point is of looking for things to be grateful for and then writing about or listing them. I previously called out empathy and authenticity, so why not go for a positive psychology trifecta […] The post Should You Practice Gratitude? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
Not necessarily you, personally. But maybe you. If so, you should stop doing that. When I came across a promising article posted on a writers’ website titled “The World Needs Writers Now More than Ever” I could do nothing but nod in agreement, although my perspective runs more along the lines of when hasn’t the […] The post You Give Truth a Bad Name appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
It isn’t exactly news, but the evidence that we are all walking around, unaware, inside our personal fog of vagueness is becoming hard to ignore. We not only lack clarity, but we are also unable to pin down (be specific about) what’s important to us. We use words, we engage in verbal communication, we consider […] The post What Are So-Called<br> Secondary Emotions? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
We can’t ask (or answer) true or false questions about something if it isn’t real to begin with. By that, I mean that reality and truth are not the same thing. I also mean that there’s a hierarchy in that we have to first determine the reality of something before we can entertain questions about […] The post It’s a Schabziger Moon. Or Is It? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
A couple of weeks ago, I read an article by a philosophy professor, Karen Simecek, who said that conceiving of our lives as narratives is a bad idea. She thinks it’s a bad idea because some narratives are negative or have a negative effect, presumably on the narrator. She didn’t mention the brain in her […] The post Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
Range: the extent or scope of something. Imagine a pendulum swinging between two states: feeling good and feeling bad. When we experience liking (or “here and now”) neurochemicals, the pendulum swings in one direction. When we experience disliking neurochemicals, the pendulum swings in the other direction. The range of motion between the two states represents […]| Farther to Go!
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Apparently, there are some extraordinary people out there who can cure whatever ails us, physically or psychologically. We know this because they excel at self-promotion to the extent that they’re difficult to escape. One of them is the neuroscientist who shall remain nameless and who seems to have spawned a minor genre of professionals debunking […]| Farther to Go!
Monty Python’s Life of Brian is a British movie but Always Look on the Bright Side of Life could easily be America’s theme song. Barbara Ehrenreich covered the pitfalls of what some call toxic positivity in her book Bright-Sided, which I read shortly after it was published in 2009. It probably goes without saying that […]| Farther to Go!
Yesterday morning I looked out onto my patio and discovered a red Mylar balloon in the shape of a heart lazily floating to and fro in the breeze. Today it’s gone, carried away by a gust of wind. This is New Mexico, after all: the wind giveth and the wind taketh away. The wind routinely […]| Farther to Go!
My post on theory of mind last week elicited several comments and some good discussions about empathy. What do you think empathy is? How would you define it? Do you consider yourself to be empathetic? Do you think empathy is a personality trait? Can it be developed? Where does it come from to begin with? […]| Farther to Go!
Liking is the pleasure you experience from something. The source of that pleasure is the liking—or Here and Now—neurochemicals released in your brain: serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins and other endogenous opioids, and endocannabinoids. The same pleasure-generating areas in the brain are activated for all pleasures, from gustatory and sensual to musical, artistic, and altruistic. Life’s intense […]| Farther to Go!
What would we do without dopamine? The answer is: nothing. We can’t do anything without dopamine, which is the literal source of all motivation—all movement—whether physical or psychological. Why then are so many people going on and on about how we all need a dopamine detox? Why are we advised to be wary of substances […]| Farther to Go!
No matter the type or the scope involved, all transformational change requires changing brains. Personal transformational change requires changing your brain or my brain. Transformational change in an interpersonal relationship requires changing both parties’ brains. And social or global transformational change requires changing many brains. There is no way around it. The primary driver of […]| Farther to Go!
