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An Improved Picture of How Mindfulness Can Change Ourselves
Amygdala Hijack and the Fight or Flight Response https://www.verywellmind.com/what-happens-during-an-amygdala-hijack-4165944 The link above references an article which describes the way our brain works and how our mind interacts with it under different circumstances. It shows the complexity and the uncertainty of its effectiveness. However, it provides optimism that repeated efforts to apply mindfulness can modify our…
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Extending Compassion to Friendship
Bill Lee asked whether a chart similar to the Anger to Compassion chart using Mindfulness can be used to describe different levels of Friendship. I thought about it and searched for descriptions of friendship levels on the Internet. Two graphics provided me with ideas to create my own chart. I have struggled a bit about…
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A Holistic Button to Replace the Ubiquitous Like Button
Was it Facebook which popularized the Like button as the ubiquitous index for popularity of an Internet posting? At first, there was no option to turn it to Love or an emoji including Anger, etc. So the most sensible interpretation of the number of Likes received by a posting is a measure of how many…
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Self-assessment For Personal Growth in Good Citizenship
It occurred to me after creating the two-dimensional and four-quadrant chart in my last posting on How to Turn Fear to Compassion, that there is an interpretation for the number inside each small box of the chart. An obvious interpretation is a score of Fear vs Compassion, ranging from -8 to+8. Let’s explore the following…
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Mindfulness Turns Fear to Compassion
The following four Charts build on ideas and works of many people. More immediately, some of the ideas came from my friends Bill Lee and James Luce and I simply internalized them with my personal philosophy to combine the two charts into one. This figure shows the two original charts. The upper right one came…
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Cards I am Still Pondering
Reincarnation, Heaven and Hell, Life After Death? I had actually formed my personal philosophy since 1975(?) with a working hypothesis on these three cards. With the advances in science including physics, genetics and brain science, and the decline of religious and New Age influence, I have opened the possibility of modifying my former belief or…
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My Speculations Discussed
KC and Edwin, Putting misunderstanding and emotional responses aside, it is interesting to me to try to understand. My favorite metaphor of blind men feeling an elephant may illustrate our three perspectives as three blind men describing the Universe (elephant). Please keep our exchanges in this thread clean and concise. And constructive. I have taken…
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My Speculation on Consciousness and Physics
Please bear with me and grant me more leeway when I am speculating. Coming up with wild ideas is the first step of speculation (一思). Finding contradictions with existing theories is the second step (二思). Challenging these contradictions and looking for potential inconsistency or too narrow foundation assumptions and modifying them with ideas from 一思…
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Learning from Losing Memory
A random thought came up. Did most philosophers possess good memory when they wrote about philosophy? Likewise, do most scientists possess good memory when they publish papers about human brains and consciousness? Did they revise their theories or philosophy after they started experiencing loss of short term and long term memory? Would some scientist change…
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