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- | === Mindfulness/ | + | ==== Mindfulness/ |
In 2010 Maja followed the 8 week course in [[http:// | In 2010 Maja followed the 8 week course in [[http:// | ||
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A talk from Medium about a [[https:// | A talk from Medium about a [[https:// | ||
- | === Karma Yoga === | + | < |
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+ | ==== Karma Yoga ==== | ||
Exercise suggestion: Every morning when arriving at FoAM allow yourself to really arrive in the studio by doing something that will help make the place more enjoyable/ | Exercise suggestion: Every morning when arriving at FoAM allow yourself to really arrive in the studio by doing something that will help make the place more enjoyable/ | ||
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* Nice article on Karma Yoga and volunteering: | * Nice article on Karma Yoga and volunteering: | ||
- | === Morning ritual === | + | ==== Morning ritual |
Exercise suggestion: Design a small ritual that would allow you to really ' | Exercise suggestion: Design a small ritual that would allow you to really ' | ||
- | === Regular pauses === | + | ==== Regular pauses |
In order to keep sufficiently concentrated for eight or more hours a day, it helps to take regular breaks (once every (half) hour for a minute or so). | In order to keep sufficiently concentrated for eight or more hours a day, it helps to take regular breaks (once every (half) hour for a minute or so). | ||
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- | === Meeting rituals === | + | ==== Meeting rituals |
Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | ||
- | === Monotasking === | + | ==== Monotasking |
In recent years it has become increasingly apparent that multitasking is quite ineffective and stress inducing -- it's akin to an institutionalised and encouraged form of ADD. At FoAM we're experimenting with different approaches to reduce extreme multitasking in the work of individuals and groups. | In recent years it has become increasingly apparent that multitasking is quite ineffective and stress inducing -- it's akin to an institutionalised and encouraged form of ADD. At FoAM we're experimenting with different approaches to reduce extreme multitasking in the work of individuals and groups. | ||
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"After a week of Vipasana we'd been sitting inside meditating all the time. On the last day I went out behind the conference centre into the garden. And after that meditating the birds in the garden just hipped past me really close. They weren' | "After a week of Vipasana we'd been sitting inside meditating all the time. On the last day I went out behind the conference centre into the garden. And after that meditating the birds in the garden just hipped past me really close. They weren' | ||
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+ | Ons brein krijgt zoveel stimuli te verwerken, dat we onze focus verliezen. Weinigen snakken naar een wereld zonder e-mail of internet hoewel vrijwel iedereen de nadelen ervaart. Ik stap een jaartje uit het bombardement, | ||
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+ | ==== Bored, on Mars==== | ||
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+ | ==== Chronesthesia ==== | ||
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+ | This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what? | ||
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+ | The answer, it seems, is time travel. </ | ||
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+ | From: TIME http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Unemployment ==== | ||
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+ | "What do you do when you find yourself with a lot more time and a lot less money on your hands than you’re used to?" | ||
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