Mind

Messages From Beyond? 9/11 Families Say They’re Touched by Loved Ones Lost

by GEOFF MARTZ and LAUREN PUTRINO The first time Lisa O’Brien knew something bizarre was happening was when she found her 4-year-old daughter Jacie having a conversation in an empty room. “I’d say, ‘Jacie, who are you talking to?’ ‘My dad! Talking to daddy,’” O’Brien recalled. “She would tell me she could see him.” Jacie’s father [...]

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The science of empathy

by Moments Count

By Professor Simon Baron-Cohen for The Guardian When I was seven years old, my father told me the Nazis had turned Jews into lampshades. Just one of those comments you hear once and the thought never goes away. To a child’s mind – even to an adult’s – these two types of thing just don’t [...]

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Quantum Pigeon: There’s No Place Like Home

by Christine Ranck

In New York City, we tend to think (affectionately) of pigeons as kind of dirty, irritating birds—-but no one can deny that they can fly like the wind. Pigeons are sort of like NYC itself—stinky, infuriating, but still soaring. Mike Tyson has been in the news lately because he has raised hundreds of homing pigeons [...]

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First You Learn to Tie Your Shoes

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

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iPhones use Download link Sometimes even the simplest of tasks require adaptation. But, have you ever let go of planning, expecting or anticipating that learning something new will be difficult, or impossible, trusted yourself, and found out you could just do it…. with your eyes closed? Photo credit: kenji punzalan@Flickr Music Credit: Kevin McLeod Please [...]

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Mind and Brain A New Tool for Creative Thinking

by Moments Count

By Jesse Prinz for Scientific American Did you ever get the giggles during a religious service or some other serious occasion? Did you ever have to smile politely when you felt like screaming? In these situations, the emotions that we are required to express differ from the ones we are feeling inside. That can be [...]

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How To Be Organized: Set your priorities using Your To Be List

by Lauren Rosenfeld

When you wake up in the morning and every blessed to-do on your to-do list is crying out “Pay attention to me first!” how do you decide? Every person, every task wants to be put front and center in your day. And there are times when the chaotic confusion of all these demands is so [...]

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Words have power

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

Words have power. In my line of work, I constantly see the positive and negative impact of words on the psyche. Words build. Words break. Without question, the effects of physical abuse can leave scars on the body and the spirit. Additionally, as research has now demonstrated, it is inarguable that how we are spoken [...]

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New Year, New You

by Christine Ranck

As we are about to enter the second decade of the 21st century (where did the FIRST one go????), it is good to get a little perspective on things. For example, will radio DJs continue to exhort us to listen to the hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and now the “00′s?” How [...]

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A Personal Haunting

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

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They’re there. You know they are. The uninvited shadows in the night that grab at you when you aren’t looking. The sounds in the night you hear when you try and shut your mind. They’re out there. They are haunting you. You. They want you….. What are they? Photo Credit: Hocus Focus Click on Flickr [...]

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Within The Mind’s Eye: An Interview with Dr. David Grand

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

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http://momentscount.com Within the Mind’s Eye: An adventure in seizing the moment, an interview with Dr. David Grand, inventor of Brainspotting, a revolutionary therapeutic technique that can effectively treat PTSD, ADD and ADHD, addictions, cravings, stuttering, phobias, anxiety and panic, anger and rage. It can greatly enhance pain management, sports performance, acting performance and creativity in general. And it can do this at warp speed when compared to other therapies.

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