Want to stop being a people pleaser? This post is for you. I’ll tell you the one sentence that has helped me please less and so ‘no’ without guilt. Source: How To Stop Being A People-Pleaser (At Least A Little) –
How Our Minds Are Being Hacked, and What We Can Do About It
Dr. Robert Lustig joined us in the studio to talk about his new book, The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains. Dr. Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist who is also author of the book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. He talks to us about how corporate interests have worked to keep us addicted to pleasure—and how our addictions have robbed us of happiness. Source: How Our Minds Are Being Hacked, and What We Can Do About It
For the American Hendrix
Great Jimi Hendrix post by Frank Hudson…
Today’s piece uses my own words to present some images regarding American musician and songwriter Jimi Hendrix. Just like William Carlos Williams meditation on a small plant last time, I pretty much follow the famous Imagist rules: direct treatment of the thing, no unnecessary words, and musical phrasing instead of mechanical metrical feet.
Each one of the images opens up what I hope is a rich question. It’s my hope that the resulting poem and audio piece assists you in remembering these questions that I see as posed in Hendrix’s life. Here is the poem I wrote and used with today’s music:
For the American Hendrix
And then he laid the guitar down, and set it afire
Which seems silly or sacred, depending on the art
He had only to keep himself alive, which would kill him.
He took every stop on the three 21 fret train tracks,
Slid between…
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An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
Well done article on how to achieve mindfulness meditation…
For the most part, I’ve been living in a glow of happiness and healthiness since my kidney transplant. But this week, stress crept back into my life.
Three reasons:
First, my kidney doctor thinks I’ve been pushing too fast with exercise and wants me to slow down. So I’m walking more, running less and avoiding weights altogether. I’ve lost an important stress reliever.
Second, I’ve been commissioned to write a book. I owe a chapter a week. The timelines are easily manageable, yet I’m allowing these external deadlines to create stress I don’t get when working on my own projects.
Third, it’s been three months since my transplant. Doctors advise kidney recipients to plan to go back to work three months post-transplant. Even though I’ve been working for weeks, I’m allowing this artificial date to impose expectations on my productivity.
In the months before my transplant, I was feeling…
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This Honest Trailer for ‘Wonder Woman’ is hilariously on point
Nailed it. Source: This Honest Trailer for ‘Wonder Woman’ is hilariously on point
Urban Dictionary: BEAT ME DADDY EIGHT TO THE BAR
30’s, 40’s phrase used on an uptempo dance tune, as a command to the rhythm section (the drummer is “daddy” as in “daddy-o”) to emphasize 8 beats to every bar of music, giving it a feel of doubletime (as opposed to 4 to a bar)a command used by the singer to go to doubletime, such as after a chorus, to shout “beat me, daddy, eight to the bar!”
Fades
I love Fall. Just love it…
Why Time Seems to Stop When You Look at the Clock
You’re in a long, boring meeting. You look up at the clock again, hoping time is passing by faster than it feels, but instead the clock’s seconds hand doesn’t seem to move at all. No, the clock didn’t just pause to mock you, your brain is playing tricks on you.
How to Keep Going When You Want To Give Up on Life
TRIGGER WARNING: This post references suicidal thoughts and may be triggering to some people. If you don’t give up hope and keep looking for help and reaching out to others, you will eventually find the people, tools, and resources you need to heal. Source: How to Keep Going When You Want To Give Up on Life – Tiny Buddha
The Winner Shouldn’t Take It All
Many winners are simply the luckiest. Source: The Winner Shouldn’t Take It All | Psychology Today
Emitt Rhodes “Mirror” available on eBay!
An Album/LP by Emitt Rhodes described as follows Performer/Band: Emitt Rhodes. Label/Pressing Date: Dunhill/ABC Records label, pressed in 1971 (original pressing). MT = Mint. Title: “Mirror”. P = Poor. | eBay! Source: Emitt Rhodes “Mirror” 1971 Folk/Psych LP, SEALED!, Original Dunhill #DXS-50111 | eBay
Do “Bad Work” When You’re in a Productivity Slump
Dealing with anxiety or depression is challenging enough as it is, but trying to be productive at the same time can feel downright impossible, like swimming against a current. There are some small productivity hacks that can help. Source: Do “Bad Work” When You’re in a Productivity Slump
How To Combat The Negative Effects Of Sitting
All hope is not lost. Source: How To Combat The Negative Effects Of Sitting – mindbodygreen
Fill Up Your Kindle With Amazon’s One-Day Ebook Sale
This Sunday’s Kindle ebook sale focuses on “gripping real stories,” including autobiographies, self help books, and historical retellings. A few of the most popular titles are below, but head over to Amazon to see the rest.
Source: Fill Up Your Kindle With Amazon’s One-Day Ebook Sale
Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation Podcasts: Emitt Rhodes (Airdate: March 20, 1997)
Wow. A rare Emitt Rhodes radio interview…
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio
Alan in the studio
On this sunny Friday, we go way, way back to 1997. The weekly Pure Pop Radio show was two years old and the number one name on my interview want list was heritage pop artist Emitt Rhodes.
Way back when, WCBS-FM in New York, New York, the city so nice they named it twice, was the place to be for new rock music. Before it became “New York’s Oldies Station,” it was a whole other station. It was the station that broadcast George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass in its entirety, back in the days when radio could do that sort of thing, and it was the station that introduced me to Emitt Rhodes.
Emitt Rhodes, 1970
The deejay, Bobby “Wizard” Wayne, waxed poetically, with just the right dose of enthusiasm, about this wunderkind who played all of the…
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