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		<title>Mental Habitats: Multitasking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Multitasking is a form of mental degradation. We are not capable of working at several different tasks simultaneously. Instead, multitasking is really nothing more than the rapid shifting of attention across a variety of tasks in a vain attempt to accomplish more is less time. We do not accomplish more, and the quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory: The Cult of Remembrance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] How many misleading or false beliefs and assumptions do we preserve in our memories? And how many of these false beliefs and assumptions have been assimilated as a result of cultural conditioning? It would be immensely difficult to conduct a statistical inventory of our memories in order to quantify the exact number of [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Mental Afflictions- The Origin of Discontent: The purpose of yoga is to provide a pathway out of suffering. All suffering originates in the mind. The mind and body are intimately interconnected, meaning that the intentions of our thoughts manifest themselves throughout the physical structure of our body. An acute painful thought creates a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Habitats: Five Sources of Torment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] The Five States of Mind: Pantanjali (2nd century B.C.) is a pioneer of the mind. The uncharted terrain he ventured into was the inner landscape of the mind. His method was the direct observation of his own mind. In this sense, Pantanjali was both scientist and artist of the inner realm of existence. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belief: The Realm of Evidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interpret our experiences in life through a complex and often hidden network of beliefs. The human brain is a belief engine; beliefs are the apparatus and raw materials of the mind. They lie at the core of our emotions, determine our subsequent behaviour, and shape the course of our lives. In a basic sense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Terrain: Grief-2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Grief possesses great agility. It emerges subtlety yet its presence is potent. Grief, I am beginning to understand, cannot be equated to more distinct states of being such as the quality of sadness that results from loss. The dimensions of grief are far more extensive in nature. Loss and absence are, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] The word memory originates in the Latin memor meaning mindful or remembering. Memory is the ability to remember, recollect, recall, or revive a mental impression of a past experience. One common assumption about memory is that it is a mental ability we use to recollect the past with accuracy and precision. A person [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] In the Time Magazine article New Ways to Think About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg explores some common misconceptions of grief. She proposes that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross&#8217; five stages of grief &#8211; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance &#8211; are in fact not stages. Kubler-Ross was focused on identifying the stages of grief each of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodymind: Caffeine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caffeine is an addictive substance that produces stimulative effects in the body and mind. Caffeine simultaneously affects our body and mind and therefore influences how we think, feel and act. If we developed a diet based on the principle of do no harm to body or mind, then caffeine would be eliminated. If we developed [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much of our experience is driven by involuntary tendencies and habits? Understanding the nature and essence of habit in our lives is an essential task. Habits are both inevitable and unavoidable. They are a medium of perception; a complex network of filters that influence how we interpret and orient ourselves to everyday life. The [...]]]></description>
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