mobi |eng | 2009-03-23 | Author:Andrew Newberg;M.D.;Mark Robert Waldman

BEGIN WITH A SIMPLE GOAL When learning meditation on your own, it is wise to begin with simple goals, then work your way up the ladder to more complex tasks. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-05 | Author:Randall, David K. [Randall, David K.]

8 Bumps in the Night It was not a good night to be Ken Parks. As he tried to wedge all six feet five inches of his frame onto his ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Damasio, Antonio [Damasio, Antonio]

8 Building a Conscious Mind A Working Hypothesis It goes without saying that the construction of a conscious mind is a very complex process, the result of additions and deletions ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-03 | Author:Turknett, Josh [Turknett, Josh]

Dairy: The Verdict Given the totality of the evidence, unless you are lactose intolerant or casein allergic, there are no compelling reasons to avoid dairy, especially if you’ve eliminated the ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:LIEBERMAN, Philip [LIEBERMAN, Philip]

The Evolution of the Functional Language System 137 ception, it also decreases biological fitness by making swallowing liquids and solid food more risky. The only biological function that the human ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Cathy N. Davidson

Gloria Mark knows more about how we pay attention in the information-age workplace than just about anyone. Professor of informatics at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Cahalan, Susannah [Cahalan, Susannah]

It was Easter weekend. On Saturday, the surgeon’s head nurse arrived to describe the preparation for the brain surgery. She seemed upbeat and managed to make the biopsy sound routine. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Andrea Gillies

PEOPLE ARE OFFENDED left, right, and center. They’re not accustomed to being headed off at the pass. Perhaps they categorize my unwillingness as indicative of neglect? Perhaps, in their training, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Diane Keaton

A Screening, March 27, 1977 Jack and I held hands at the screening of Annie Hall. It was closing night of the Filmex Festival in Century City. The theater was ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Susan R. Barry

Tracy’s comments helped me to understand my own experiences, for there were many days when I felt both exhilaration and exhaustion. My old way of seeing had given me the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Susannah Cahalan

It was Easter weekend. On Saturday, the surgeon’s head nurse arrived to describe the preparation for the brain surgery. She seemed upbeat and managed to make the biopsy sound routine. ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Corballis, Michael C. [Corballis, Michael C.]

9 Language and Mind Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

Curiously, though Penfield described such a variety of experiential hallucinations, he made no reference to what we now call “ecstatic” seizures—seizures that produce feelings of ecstasy or transcendent joy, such ...

epub, mobi | | 2008-09-04 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

Part III Memory, Movement, and Music 15 In the Moment: Music and Amnesia You are the music while the music lasts. — T. S. ELIOT, The Four Quartets In January ...

epub | | 1995-03-24 | Author:Oliver Sacks

5. The Landscape of His Dreams I first met Franco Magnani in the summer of 1988, when the Exploratorium in San Francisco held a symposium and an exhibit on memory. ...