George Herbert Mead, a significant sociologist from the late 1800’s, is well known for his theory of the social self, which includes the concepts of ‘self’, ‘me’, and ‘I’. Mead was interested in the way the self-awareness was developed and how the self was mainly developed through our social experiences…

Brian will share the story of his journey to understanding how mindfulness and meditation became essential to his success. Mindfulness as a state, trait, process, type of meditation, and intervention has proven to be beneficial across a diverse group of psychological disorders as well as for general stress reduction.

Visitors to Höller’s 2011–12 “Experience” show at the New Museum were encouraged to disrobe and float in a shallow pool of an epsom salt solution. The salt holds the viewer in perfect equilibrium as body-temperature water drowns out all outside sensation. Höller has said the tank is meant to induce such extreme relaxation that visitors begin to have an out-of-body experience.(via Artsy.com)

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one’s self and others.” — Dogen, 2002. This week…

Recent neuroscience and studies of positive psychology have proven that happiness is a key component in becoming more successful. One reason is that positive feelings make the brain work better. According to a 2018 study by Stanford researchers, positivity increases the activity of the hippocampus, an area of the brain…

Dennett’s view on personal identity and mind takes an approach that many philosophers have struggled to fully understand. Though the nature of the self is one of philosophy’s persistent questions and for many easy to describe, yet maddening to understand. The question of how continuity and psychic unity combine to…

This week we tap into ourselves by embracing empathy and self-transcendence. However, if you’re like me, you never had a good grasp on exactly it what it meant. Self-transcendence is, at its core, about transcending (or rising above) the self and relating to that which is greater than the self…

Welcome Friend, Through this blog I intend to share information about mindfulness, spirituality, love, art, music and empathy. I want us all to be tapping into the world in a new way — in which is free from popular news, political oppositions, ambiguity and obscurities. I hope that as I learn, create and grow — as we all do. That you as well grow and develop by becoming more intuitive of the world around us through both appreciation and question.