Month: October 2015
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Mindful Technology Tip: How to Control Interruptions
Do you find it hard to remain focused and mindful in the face of a constant barrage of interruptions from your devices: smartphone ringing, email notifications blinking, text messages chirping? Fortunately there are a variety of ways to configure your devices to limit when, where, and how they interrupt you.
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Review: Focus@Will Uses Music to Help You Stay Mindful
Focus@Will is a web site that plays music designed to increase the amount of time you can stay focused. I started using the site a few years ago, after seeing two of the site’s founders, Will Henshall and Dr. Evian Gordon, give a presentation about the site at one of the Wisdom 2.0 conferences.
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Guest Blog Posting on Everyday Mindfulness: Mindfulness Lessons from the Martial Arts
I’ve had the privilege of writing a guest blog posting on Everyday Mindfulness entitled, “Responding Not Reacting: Mindfulness Lessons From The Martial Arts.” In it I describe some lessons I have learned about responding rather than reacting from my training in martial arts over the years. In particular I thought it would…
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Gmail Offers Anti-Mindlessness Insurance
Google Gmail recently finalized its “Undo Send” feature, which enables you to recall an outgoing email up to ten seconds after you hit “Send” on it. The feature works by delaying the sending of the email for ten seconds, so that if you hit “Undo Send,” the email will not be sent in the…
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Series: What Mindfulness Means to Me, Elizabeth Wood
In an effort to share a range of perspectives on the meaning of mindfulness and to facilitate a discussion about this important topic, we are posting a series of short essays by different contributors on What Mindfulness Means to Me. Below is a poem by Elizabeth Wood expressing what mindfulness means to her.
