Just watch the video as slowly as possible as many times as possible – what will you do with that time? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2798
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2797 Contemplate endings and treasure beginnings
Today, take some quiet time to read about the hope for a life well lived in this poem about death. When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the… Read more »
#tds2796 Developing a More Contemplative and Reflective Relationship With Our Digital Devices and Apps
“Today’s digital technologies are both powerful and powerfully distracting. The challenge we face is to use them to their best advantage, and to ours. This article describes one method that may help us to face this challenge: bringing mindful attention to the ways we currently use our digital devices and apps, discovering in the process… Read more »
#tds2795 It’s not you. Bad doors are everywhere
What do bad doors have to do with stillness? Well the connection may be a little far-fetched but it is about our technology and tools being designed in a human centred way, which means that they are invisible in use because we know intutively how to use it or can discover how.So much design, computers… Read more »
#tds2794 How dark patterns trick you online
Just take time to watch this, you need to know about these dark patterns to protect your attention online. If you want a resource that just runs through dark patterns examples watch this video also. And if tyou want more detail got to Deceptive Design’s website. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure… Read more »
#tds2793 A mindful tech audit
Above all, mindful tech should respect human attention—instead of commodifying and trading in it. As it’s a growing movement, there isn’t a playbook for creating mindful tech; but I’ve put together 7 mindful tech principles, or questions. To figure out whether a tech product is mindful, you can ask yourself: Does it value my attention? Or does… Read more »
#tds2792 Stay centered in the midst of activity – walking meditation practice
“Don’t let the looking and the walking pull you away from your center. This requires practice, maintaining a center in the midst of movement.This is important for two main reasons. One, as I said just now, is that it gets you used to maintaining your center in other activities as well, so that even when… Read more »
#tds2791 You’ve been bored, now sleep.
Some helpful hints for better sleep (and there are a lot more): Establish a sleep routine. It is important to go to bed at the same time and wake at the same time. This is so key Sleep in complete darkness. Any light will interfere with Melatonin production Keep temperature in bedroom between 60 and… Read more »
#tds2790 Boredom may make you altruistic
We revisit the experiment that people prefer to shock themselves than to be left alone with their thoughts…and more. Alleviate boredom or not? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2790
#tds2789 More boredom today
Today, just watch this short animation and then be bored! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2789
#tds2788 Get used to boredom
Today, spend the day getting used to boredom as it is good for you! Ready the post ‘Boost your Brain with Broedom’ if you want more than infographic here. Or you could ignore all the above, and just get out in nature. (apologies for the watermarked content from @mdvfunes – Canva offered the template as… Read more »
#tds2787 Ask the moment
Richard Miller teaches a relaxation method known as Yoga Nidra. In one of his talks he speaks about the idea that there is a continuity of being rather than a separate self. Opening up to stillness can help us access a state of mind where nothing distracts us as we can be open to the… Read more »
