More great clear instruction from Ken McLeod on how to work with uncomfortable thoughts and emotions when meditating (and in life). Unfettered Mind When you…
Ken McLeod on the habit of pleasing, and working with any kind of habits
Ken McLeod talks on Facebook about “the disease to please”. But this approach can be applied to any habit: from anger to numbing out. Its…
BPA linked to obesity in white children
Abstract: White children exposed to high levels of bisphenol A are five times more likely to be obese than children with low levels, according to…
Do Nothing | Tricycle
This is such a brilliant clear article on shamatha meditation (“mindfulness meditation” in popular and psychology realms these days, or “calm abiding” as a direct…
Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes? – Mark Bittman NYT
Wow this is the first time I have heard of Diabetes type 3… that’s an hypothesis for Alzheimers that has been around since 2005 apparently….
Susan Redline, M.D. on relation of early childhood deprivation on obesity
Notes taken by Johanna Workman PhD at UC Berkeley today (on her Blackberry!) This Contemplative Life has a new roving correspondent. She takes notes on…
Immune Disorders and Autism
Ideally, your immune system should operate like an enlightened action hero, meting out inflammation precisely, accurately and with deadly force when necessary, but then quickly…
Shutting out a world of digital distraction – Telegraph
“Tucked away in the acknowledgements at the back of her new novel NW, along with the names of friends, family, editors and publishers who have…
An Interview with Peter Fisher | World of Homeopathy
Excerpt: One thing to remember about research is it is just a method of answering questions. It gets fetishized–people turn it into an end in…
American Gut::
Consider the following: we are all 99.9% identical in terms of our human genome, but can be 90% different in terms of our gut microbes….