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Tag Archives: Mindfulness
Pandemic? Great Reset? How about… a beginner’s mind?
By Mickey Z. Source: Dissident Voice “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s, there are few.” 1 Has there ever been a more urgent time to embrace many possibilities? This age of pervasive uncertainty and division may … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, education, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Beginner’s Mind, Compassion, Consciousness, Creativity, culture, Experts, Gratitude, Meditation, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality
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Zen In The Trenches
By Gary Z Mcee Source: Waking Times “You ask, ‘what is Zen?’ I answer, ‘Zen is that which makes you ask the question.’ Because the answer is where the question arises. The answer is the questioner himself.” ~Daisetz Suzuki Zen … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Spirituality
Tagged Anxiety, Belief, Consciousness, culture, Health, humor, Meditation, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, Zen
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False Spirituality Is The Friend Of Corrupt Power. True Spirituality Is Its Enemy.
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com “Leveraging Mindful Practices To Maximize Productivity”, reads a Forbes headline from last week. “Using mindfulness to overcome financial stress”, reads another headline published a few days ago by Financy. “The impact of mindfulness on businesses in the work from home era”, … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Consciousness, culture, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Power, Religion, society, spirituality, Truth
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Generation Numb: How Losing My Phone Exposed Me to the Pain of My Peers
This terrible void of which everyone stays pleasantly unobservant is the unofficial sickness of Gen Z. By Ben Scheer Source: ScheerPost I hadn’t planned to give up my smartphone. After all, I was starting my sophomore year of college and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, education, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alienation, Anxiety, Awareness, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Distraction, Dystopia, Education, Internet, media media literacy, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Smartphones, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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37 Tips For Navigating A Society That Is Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: Axis of Logic For as long as there has been human language, humans have been using it to manipulate one another. The fact that it is possible to skillfully weave a collection of symbolic mouth noises … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate media, culture, empire, imperialism, manipulation, media, Media Literacy, mental narrative, Mindfulness, Neocons, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Psyops, society, Sociology, sociopaths, Status Quo, Truth, war
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Spaciousness: How to Free Your Mind and Stop Living Reactively
By Jordan Bates Source: High Existence “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor Frankl ‘Spaciousness’ is a Buddhist concept that has been profoundly … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Tagged Awareness, Beginner’s Mind, Buddhism, Consciousness, Eckhart Tolle, Meditation, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Spaciousness, spirituality, Tao, Taoism, Zen
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SHAME: How To Beat The Two-System Blame Game That Takes Us Down & Keeps Us Stuck
By Jack Adam Weber Source: Collective Evolution Shame is different from guilt, because guilt is to feel badly about something we have done; shame is to feel badly about who we are. We might develop shame because we have been … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, conditioning, Consciousness, culture, Emotions, fear, Guilt, Health, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Self-Care, Self-image, Shame, society, Sociology
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Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction
By Madeleine Bunting Source: Rise Up Times “Are you paying attention?” The phrase still resonates with a particular sharpness in my mind. It takes me straight back to my boarding school, aged thirteen, when my eyes would drift out the … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Attention, big data, Consciousness, culture, Herbert Marcuse, media, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Philosophy, politics, psychology, Smart Phones, Social Media, society, Sociology, technology, Timothy Leary
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