Awareness is the ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, thoughts, emotions, or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of something.
The average person has 70,000 thoughts each day, and if you don’t learn to organize them, they have the potential to wreak havoc on your productivity. Continue reading You have 70,000 thoughts a day. This is how to organize them for maximum productivity
Humans have evolved: are we still doing so? Very slowly perhaps, but what’s really changing is how we are adapting to the natural environment. And here, the nerds are winning.
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If order to figure out who we are, why we are here, and what our purpose is we often end up exploring religion, science, philosophy and spirituality. This quest can teach us a lot of things about what other people have figured out so far. New things are being figured out every single day and sometimes they contradict one another.
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Understanding Awareness – A discussion of the challenges and obstacles of raising your awareness, and what the spiritual journey entails.
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(Credit: Wikimedia)Should you believe in a God? Not according to most academic philosophers. A comprehensive survey revealed that only about 14 percent of English speaking professional philosophers are theists. As for what little religious belief remains among their colleagues, most professional philosophers regard it as a strange aberration among otherwise intelligent people. Among scientists the situation is much the same. Surveys of the members of the National Academy of Sciences, composed of the most prestigious scientists in the world, show that religious belief among them is practically nonexistent, about 7 percent.
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The founder of the Transcendental Meditation technique, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, discusses the mechanics of the technique.
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Americans have about an eight-second attention span.
That’s less than a goldfish.
But we can improve our powers of concentration by, for example, finding clever ways to eliminate distractions, hacking our workflows, or working on our mindsets.