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Rick’s Picks: Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

by | May 8, 2015 | Blog

Rick’s Picks is a new series of posts highlighting the very best content online. Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal...
Open Space Mindfulness

Open Space Mindfulness

by | May 4, 2015 | Articles, Blog

This is the fourth and final post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here’s Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. In Part Three we did a little mindfulness meditation to “tune-up” our mindfulness and concentration skills. Now we are going to...

Rick’s Picks: Man vs. Machine

by | May 1, 2015 | Blog

Rick’s Picks is a new series of posts highlighting the very best content online. This piece from FiveThirtyEight explores a classic contest of man vs. machine, carried out on the battlefield of the chess board. Seventeen years ago in New York City, brooding...

The Neurodharma of Love

by | Apr 30, 2015 | Articles, Blog

Most of our greatest joys and sorrows happen in our relationships with others. Imagine then: what if you could guide your mind to forgive, heal, and find greater happiness in your connections with others? The remarkable truth is that you can. Check out this sample...
Mindfulness Tune Up

Mindfulness Tune Up

by | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles, Blog

This is the third post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here’s Part One and Part Two. Steady mindfulness requires overcoming the natural – and evolutionarily adaptive – tendency of mind to scan endlessly and think of new things. So the basic...

Self-Directed Brain Change

by | Apr 23, 2015 | Articles, Blog

I think you might like this sample from my audio program – Self-Directed Brain Change: Rewire Your Neural Pathways for Happiness and Resilience – a step-by-step program for retraining our neural structure out of “sheer survival” mode and into...
Why Develop Mindful Presence?

Why Develop Mindful Presence?

by | Apr 20, 2015 | Articles, Blog

This is the second post in the series on mindful presence. You can view Part One here. So why should we go out of our way to develop mindfulness? Mindful presence feels good in its own right: relaxed, alert, and peaceful. Not contending with anything. No struggle. In...

Rick’s Picks: Four Year Old Reviews French Laundry

by | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog

Rick’s Picks is a new series of posts highlighting the very best content online. In what has to be the most adorable review of a restaurant ever written, The Bold Italic writer Jessica Saia takes a friend’s four-year-old daughter to The French Laundry and...

The Enlightened Brain

by | Apr 16, 2015 | Articles, Blog

I thought you might like to listen to a sample from my audio program – The Enlightened Brain: The Neuroscience of Awakening – in which I offer practical tools to reshape your brain for awakening. Enjoy! I’d love to hear your feedback about this audio...