Mindfulness
Why saying “life is short” is a cop-out (and how to have a long life)
We frequently hear and say these things that are supposed to be motivating and inspiring (or at least make us feel better about the choices made in the quest for happiness) but upon examination are simply glib sound bites designed to take you away from the best parts of being alive.
“Life only feels short in retrospect - when we look back and reminisce about the time that has passed - it is act...
A vendor I frequent at the weekly farmer’s market was emphatically describing how healthy I looked, “amazing!” and recounting how frightened she was for me a few months back when I visited her booth while recovering from complications from major surgery, “like the walking dead!”. She espoused the advice she had once read, “live each day like it’s your last”. In the moment I considered each wor...
367 sessions, 188 hours, 365 consecutive days of the original biohack.
It started as a three month experiment—I remembered reading a Wired article while on a flight in 2006 about The Dalai Lama and a neuroscientist, Richard Davidson, who hooked several Tibetan monks up to an EEG machine and scanned their brain as they meditated. Since then, more studies have shown how the brain changes with co...