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Blog entry by Kāmini (twitter/KaminiCreates)

"Having to stay mindful, bring myself back to what’s real in the present, breathe and respond from a place of inner calm is not easy. Over the years I have cultivated the practise of mindfulness and developed a range of creative strategies to help me cope during times like this, here are some I use regularly: 

An interesting article on how our relationships help us feel physically warm, or cold.

From John Davidson's article in the Financial Review "Some hard thoughts on weighty matters" ...

Could it be that figurative coldness and actual coldness are somehow intertwined? Do "the cold shoulder", the "cold heart", the "frosty stare" ...actually make us feel physically cold? ... It turns out that the answer to all those questions might be yes"

Science has finally confirmed what anyone who's ever been in love already knows: Heartbreak really does hurt.

In a new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain networks that are activated when you're burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about a lover who has spurned you.

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"What's exciting about these findings," he says, "is that they outline the direct way in which emotional experiences can be linked to the body."

An interesting article by a doctor who doesn't believe the brain is the seat of consciousness (which is correct).

There is no conceivable neural account of many aspects of human consciousness. A record of neural impulses cannot explain the simultaneous unity and multiplicity of the moment.

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Nor can neural activity explain memory, as the material of the brain has no way of representing the tenses of time; indeed as Einstein emphasised, for physicists, the past, present and future are stubborn illusions.

Michael Gerber's E-Myth, 'E-Myth Business Coach': Article revealing some of the common failings of  creative artists, writers et al.

Quoting Lee Silber's Career Management for the Creative Person:  seven tendencies that seem to be particularly common among “right-brain types,” as he calls them. The list includes