If you are done sitting with your excuses and want to give it a go, here is the One Minute Meditation animation. It is heartwarming and makes the process clear and portable! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds723
Posts By: Mariana
#tds722 Learn meditation through the art of gaming
“Connecting the dots between gaming, meditation, and flow has led to gamified meditation training apps. It can be easy to dismiss these apps as they’re not as “spiritual” as meditating on the grass by the sea with a guru, nor are they as fun as crushing candy on the train to work. They don’t fit… Read more »
#tds721 Contemplative Image Reading
“Images become more suggestive when we give them the chance to pitch us their messages; but to do that, we at least have to be sharp and sensitive in order to identify those images that have something beautiful, amazing, and meaningful to say. Not every image will tell a great story, but a great story can… Read more »
#tds720 Be bored often
“The problem, the psychologists worry, is that these days we don’t wrestle with these slow moments. We eliminate them. “We try to extinguish every moment of boredom in our lives with mobile devices,” Mann says. This might relieve us temporarily, but it shuts down the deeper thinking that can come from staring down the doldrums…. Read more »
#tds719 F shaped reading gives us only speed
“If you are online a lot you may have become accustomed to scanning (or reading in an F-shape) – whizzing over words until you identify something you think is important. Focus on reading each line of text and savour every sentence.” Advice from the Slow Reading club. Today read the F-Shape article first. It assumes the only… Read more »
#tds718 Remember the monkey bars…
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#tds717 I intend to keep scrolling until…
I feel something. Humour (not so much) from McSweeney’s: “How could genuine human emotion penetrate such an opaque, suffocating shroud of free online content? There’s only one solution. Faster scrolling.” River Clegg via GIPHY Today, read the article but remember how to slow read. Read it slowly and take time for contemplation. It is funny… Read more »
#tds716 The 4 sanctuaries
“4 natural sanctuaries: Silence, Solitude, Stillness and Simplicity” Belinda Clemens. Today, find the 4 sanctuaries in your day…more than once? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds716
#tds715 A no stress ‘Binky’ Day
Binky is ‘the app that does nothing’ or does it do everything? Ian Bogost of The Atlantic investigates, “I open it and start scrolling. Images of people, foods, and objects appear on and then vanish off the screen. Solar cooker. B.F. Skinner. Shoes. Marmalade. Sports Bra. Michael Jackson. Ganesha. Aurora Borealis. These are “binks,” the… Read more »
#tds714 Memorising stillness
A short quote on what stillness can mean to us. Today, take 1 hour and memorise the quote. Then take it for a quiet walk in your mind’s eye and leave all other thoughts behind. They will be waiting for you when you return. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the… Read more »
#tds713 The Binge Breaker
< If some of the ideas in the past few days have interested you, give this podcast a try. It is an article by The Atlantic on Tristan Harris. It is 31 minutes long but you can take it out in your daily jog. It may give you some more ideas about how to un-hijack… Read more »
#tds712 The panda is dancing
Well, we joined the Time Well Spent movement and it rewarded us with this wonderful ode to a future that is ‘not just screens, but is humanity enhanced’. Disclaimer: the habits described in the video, most certainly do not apply to you but the person sitting next to you…and we are lying 🙂 Tweet your… Read more »
