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Category Archive: Mind your mind

The Rise and Fall of Franco Pavarro

Shadow of the Bat
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A deep, gnawing sadness descended again this week in Melbourne as we returned to a further 6 weeks of lockdown. Franco Parvarro emerges, death is explored and reborn as a comforting acknowledgement of change.

Matt Green July 11, 2020 Diary, Melbourne, Mind your mind, Music, Travel

It’s not a competition. Find your Camino.

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Walking in the heart of the Pyrenees, our ascent started into the mountain range. Bursting with enthusiasm to explore and a drive to keep up with the others I pushed on uphill. Suddenly I felt a severe pain in my knee. How could this happen on the very first day of a planned five week long walk? I was not willing to give up walking with the others so easily.

steppingforwardnow May 16, 2020 Mind your mind, Nature, Travel

The Slow Movement

Carl Honoré
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Carl Honoré, responsible for bringing the Slow movement to the attention of the masses with his book ‘In Praise of Slow’ back in 2005, describes his initial realisation of the need to ‘slow down’ and reveals the many facets of slow culture.

Slowist November 18, 2019 Mind your mind

Diary note 1/11/19: everyday mindfulness

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Thoughts from a walk to the station in the morning, through wooded lanes. This is really ‘everyday’ mindfulness, as focus is not on a podcast or music, but what is going on around oneself, the sights, sounds, smells…

Matt Green November 1, 2019 Diary, Mind your mind, Nature, Sounds

We are who we are: the neuroscience of personality

Footbridge with graffiti saying HAPPINESS IS FOUND IN YOUR KINDNESS
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…[in] the past, this mind of mine roamed freely as it liked, as it desired, at its own pleasure. But today, I shall fully keep it in check, even as the elephant driver with the point of a goad controls an unruly elephant in rut.

Matt Green August 11, 2019 Mind your mind
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On fleetingness and presence of mind

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It takes some time and persistence, but the benefits of a calm brain are numerous and essential. Look for times where you can practice these techniques – they occur in surprising places.

Matt Green June 26, 2019 Mind your mind

Why work alone won’t ever fulfill you

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The brain can only assume its proper behavior when consciousness is doing what it is designed for: not writhing and whirling to get out of present experience, but being effortlessly aware of it.

Slowist May 15, 2019 Mind your mind

The Art and Trials of Meditation

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How can something so simple, be so difficult for us to do? Clearing our minds of clutter should not be that hard; we are not lifting anything physically, not running a marathon, not climbing a mountain. Yet the mountain in our minds can seem twice the size of Everest, and extremely hard to confront.

Maria Papasergi May 5, 2019 Mind your mind, Nature, Travel

Therapeutic chainsawing

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To some people chainsawing and therapy may seem to be worlds apart. In the spirit of the slow movement, chainsawing for me is simply a focused exercise, a means to an end and a promise of things to come.

Rob Wallis April 25, 2019 Melbourne, Mind your mind, Nature

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