Month: September 2017

FIVE SENSES OR A HUNDRED?

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If you have ventured into yoga or martial arts, you know how essential developing your awareness is for the practice. Heightened awareness, sometimes translated as mindfulness, is the primary goal and achievement of the exercises, and as I have discovered recently, all those advices to “go within” and “observe the sensations” have their sound physiological bearing. While we are generally taught, that we can count on our five senses, neuroscientists dive into much more complicated taxonomy of sensors, classifying them […]

SPACE, COMFORT AND INDOOR CLIMATES

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When I’m cold I cannot think. Not like in totally blank mind – that would be actually beneficial – I’d pop my head in the fridge to restart the disk every now and then, instead of attempting meditation, at which I am hopeless. No, it’s just the thought “I AM COLD” invading the landscape in solid blocks until it blocks out everything else. I cannot think when I’m hot. Then a similar process unfolds, but it is more about melting […]