Sometimes days or even an entire week goes by before I finally take a breath and when I do, I realize all too often that I’ve started to feel like my hubby and I are living two separate lives! In all the hustle and chaos of life, we lose focus and forget to take even a minute to find each other and the reasons we fell in love in the first place....
Dacher Keltner: Adam Edwards is a competitive kayaker and member of Melanin Base Camp, an organization working to diversify outdoor adventure sports and experiences. He joins us today as our happiness guinea pig. In each episode of The Science of Happiness, we focus on different research-tested practices for increasing happiness, resilience, kindness, and connection. And we have a guest try out that practice and tell us about their experience. Then we explore the science behind it....
The film includes interviews with Megan Cowan, the director of Mindful Schools, an initiative that offers a mindfulness curriculum to U.S. schools, and brain scientist Richard Davidson, who is founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. HEALTHY HABITS OF MIND from Persona Film on Vimeo.
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. But the Meta-owned platform has always had some disappointing limitations, particularly in terms of the maximum size of the files that you can send over it. While Telegram allowed users to send files of up to 1.5GB since 2014 (increased to 2GB in 2020), WhatsApp limited you to just 100MB, even today. Thankfully, that’s going to change shortly. The company is matching Telegram by making a huge jump from 100MB to 2GB....
“My breath is boring—just the same thing over and over again! Surely there must be something more interesting to watch?” This kind of comment comes up quite often when people start mindfulness training. It’s good to be curious about why we practice mindfulness of breathing, but just because we experience some discomfort during the practice doesn’t mean it’s not helpful. In fact, perhaps it’s helpful partly because the breath shows us our discomfort and the patterns of relationship that perpetuate it....
