Healing Vibes for Exams - and Winter Blues

"This track features All 9 Solfeggio Frequencies for Full Body Aura Cleanse & Cell Regeneration Therapy. Each Miracle Tone here serves a certain purpose and helps in detoxifying and cleansing the body and mind. Each frequency lasts for around 9 mins starting from 174Hz known as a natural anesthetic and moving all the way up to 963Hz which is associated with pineal gland activation. Hope this will help you."

The holidays can be a difficult time for families missing loved ones.


See the work of Belleruth Naparstek - on iTunes podcasts - and HealthyJourneys.com

Focus - it's like a muscle.

Headspace, a meditation app that started in 2012, is now available for teachers at a deep discount.

Sign up here for $12 annual subscription (normally $79 per year). It's a priceless gift to yourself - and your loved ones.

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The Science of Meditation

The benefits of meditation have been backed by science for years - and studies are being published exponentially.



Check out the work of Dan Harris.


From Scientific American 2013:



From ASAP Science 2015:



Listen to guided meditations by Tara Brach.

Just Breathe - Exams

A parent from one of my lacrosse players shared this video with me a few years ago when I was at Episcopal Academy. That was a special season and team - we meditated daily before every practice and every game.

When I share this video in class, the wisdom of these children can be cynically scoffed at - comments like "They didn't come up with that..." or "No way that was something a kid knew..." "Who wrote those lines for them?"

I witnessed one class recently laugh and make fun of the kid's teeth "He'll need braces" and "He has anger issues" but I say nothing. The reaction to this video is telling of the mindset and reflects even a not so latent anger at anything that suggests meditation and mindfulness. The loudest critics... I am mindful not to make assumptions. But I record observations.

Hearts and minds are not opened easily - and the myth of multitasking is not received warmly.
Our lives - and our brains - are fried with stimulus and anxiety - FOF and FOMO preying on all of us.


Understand how (parental) stress affects developing brain from early childhood to adolescence.

From Raising of America:

The Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortex Connection is Crucial from California Newsreel on Vimeo.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: How do you use your INTERSTITIAL time?

Check out Neil deGrasse Tyson's Amazon page - how many books has he written?
Where does he find the time?

Read his Wikipedia page.

See his website.

Check out his Twitter.Harvard Business Review - Life's Work: An  Interview

From the HBR article:

How do you balance your TV work with your day job, your academic work, and your family life?

Balance might be overrated. If your life is perfectly balanced—everything going smoothly—is it as dynamic as it could be? When life is out of balance, usually something is changing, and that’s not always a bad thing. It gives you a new perspective. New projects always send things out of balance. I embrace disruptions to circumstances I’ve grown complacent about.

Practically, though, how do you manage your time?

It’s a bit of the squeaky wheel philosophy. Some e-mails don’t get tended to for weeks. I also use all the interstitial time available. While I’m waiting for the subway, I’m doing e-mail. With a little more time, I’m composing book chapters or op-eds. How much of your life can you recover by using those slots? When you stitch them together, it’s a lot.

You have more than 4 million Twitter followers. Why does that medium appeal, and what makes you so successful at it?

I got an account, like other early adopters, back in ’09. I started tweeting what everybody else was: “Crossing the street now.” “A little bit cold today.” Why am I doing this? I’m wasting my time. Then I had an epiphany. I was in the Las Vegas airport a couple of months after I published The Pluto Files, and I did the vain thing that authors typically do: go to the bookstore to see if your book is on display. I said, “Excuse me, ma’am, where’s the science section?” She said, “Oh, we don’t have a science section.” I thought, “Of course—you wouldn’t want any rational thinking going on before you gamble.” And I said to myself, “That’s a tweet.” From then on, I’ve been tweeting random thoughts that come to me because of the lens I carry as a scientist and an educator. You are seeing how I think about the world (I call it my brain droppings), and, if you don’t hang around other scientists, that might be intriguing—to be a little closer to the operations of nature and the universe.

Why do you think so many people find inspiration in him?

See his show STARTALK.
Follow on SoundCloud.




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If interested, I'm on @CNN’s GPS here with @FareedZakaria talking about a "Space Force" [Video: 5m 30s].https://t.co/96gDx6nU7h

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 27, 2018

Tim Ferriss on Why Meditate: Do you want to be successful?

On CNBC: 

Tim Ferriss: 3 things you should do every day if you want to be successful

by Catherine Clifford

 10:10 AM ET Mon, 9 Jan 2017

In his Nov. 23, 2017 Business Insider article, Richard Feloni writes:

"After interviewing 140 people at the top of their fields, Tim Ferriss realized almost all of them share the same habit"

• For his new book "Tribe of Mentors," bestselling author and star podcast host Tim Ferriss sent 11 questions to 140 people at the top of their fields.
• He found that regardless of industry, the vast majority of respondents had a mindfulness or meditation practice.
• He meditates every morning for 20 minutes and has found it's improved his emotional control.

From his podcast - episodes on meditation:

“The goal of meditation is to uncover a form of wellbeing that is inherent to the nature of our minds.” 
                                                                                 — Sam Harris