Mindfulness

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The latest research shows that mindfulness techniques work just like meditators say they do. I think you'll like this week's first item.

Scientists at UCLA found that naming emotional states calmed them down. This is a common technique in mindfulness meditation. The meditator deals with random disturbances by saying, "fear," "anger" "annoyance," or otherwise putting a label on interfering thoughts, emotions and feelings, and then returns attention to breathing.

In the study, fMRI brain scans were done on 30 people, who were asked to look at photos of people's faces, showing various emotional states. Some photos had words below them describing the possible emotional states of the person, such as "angry," "depressed" or "excited." They also had two possible names, male and female.

Participants were asked to choose...

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- Wealth, if defined as having more assets, is not correlated very strongly with intelligence, but income is? (In other words, smart people make more but don't do any better at managing it.)

- Warm air can hold more moisture than cold air? This is why there is dew or frost - when the air gets too cold, it can't hold all the moisture, and so it precipitates out.

- Some estimates put human saliva production at more than 9,000 gallons in a lifetime.

What Are Poem Riddles?

Poem riddles are simply riddles in the form of poems. Here are a few good examples, followed by the solutions further down.

1. A Hoard Of Rings

A hoard of rings am I,
but no fit gift for a bride;
I await a sword's kiss.

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Name a word in the English language that has five vowels in-a-row (no intervening consonants).

Graham Green, the famous English writer, attributes much of his success to a habit: He forced himself to write at least 500 words daily, whether or not he felt like it. Creative inspiration can come at any time, but it comes more often when there is work instead of waiting. The same can be said of success in general.

Imagine if you could press a button and activate your HIDDEN GENIUS. (Check out the great guarantee on this one.)

Is it really true that spirituality and science are opposed to each other? First of all, just defining either concept seems almost hopeless at times. Describing them, on the other hand, is much easier, so let's start there.

Science is an approach to knowledge, a method. Scientists themselves will argue forever about a definition of science, but still agree that it is the most useful or productive method of understanding the world. Its essential characteristics are objective observation, the deriving of principles and "laws", and predictions based on these. (At the point where it produces things, it is also technology.)

It can be easily differentiated from religion by the fact that...

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Until next time,

Riddle Solution: Rousseauian appears in some dictionaries ("eauia"), meaning 'pertaining to Rousseau or his views on religion, politics, etc.' Pharmacopoeia comes close, with four vowels.

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