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“One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself.” This was from meditation teacher Stephen Batchelor’s OnBeing podcast. I listened to it as I returned [...]

Do you ever walk to the kitchen and forget what you wanted? That’s how your mind works. When I wrote my books on brain fitness, I learned that the cognitive cortex is entwined with your [...]

Have you ever ended up in the kitchen, wondering what the hell you came to get? Congratulations! Your human brain is working the way it was built. I discovered (when I wrote Brain Fitness for [...]

The first time I meditated, it was absolute ecstasy. Instead of living the blues, I felt vibrant, alive, even happy. My bedraggled 20-year-old self was hooked. Each morning after, I repeated my [...]

I’m a bad meditator. “No judgment!” say my teachers. “Just return to the breath.” Yeah, I try to do that, but…. After decades of meditating (on and off), I [...]