
The Science of Mindfulness (with Dr. Ronald Siegel)
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The Inernet and Social Media
The inernet and media generally, is problematic for a few reasons. We live with a constant bombardment of hearing about mostly pain and horrible things happening to people all over the world. Social media have discovered that we can addict people to clicking on things that are going to boost their self esteem. This feeds into this other very powerful, hard water desire to basically be a winner visb our fields, or to be popular in the world. And you know what we do, and m with mindfulness practices, is we start to develop a way to be more sensitized and sensitive as an organism. Very simple things like, literally, a cup of tea, seeing the sunset, looking at a flower
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