Mindfulness – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

Thirty years ago and counting. 90’s reminiscence.

He has a glass that is so half-full that the Kool-Aid is spilling over the rim.

Care Home; acceleration towards time.

dim lights that cast no shadow in the bedroom

Older person

Man or woman

sits

silently

Waiting.

Purposeful Practice and an agreement to disagree

Richard Feynman – a physicist considered amongst the greatest minds of his generation (also a crazy bongo-player, linguist and lock-picker)

One thing at a time.

And the thing about this serial nature – it is not actually a limitation or a curse, it is our salvation.

Earlier today, I was writing about High Definition TV and my thoughts relating to the potential harm it is doing to our senses. Within that blog I mentioned nostalgia. (Here is a separate blog specifically on that subject). The day before I referred to the title of a book of poems by Jack Kerouac –Continue reading “Mind wandering & etc.”

Uniforms

There is a theory, developed by Ellen Langer, Professor of Psychology at Harvard that there is a thing going-on with uniforms. Yes, none of us needed a US academic to tell us that uniforms do something, it is more the effect they have, not just on those who engage with the individual in said togs,Continue reading “Uniforms”

It is very easy.

It is very easy When living, Suspended, perhaps, mindfully in the moment; locked into timelessness, to misplace an Awareness of self. Old woman, Purple-black bruised face and, swollen left eye. Thinning hair. fading eyes. Who?

Mindfulness & breakfast

I could probably kill two birds with one stone by getting rid of my breakfast routine and spending the time doing 10 minutes’ mindfulness.

Medically fit

So long as you are still able to participate, join-in with the conversation, your perception of self is just as valid as that of the doctor or nurse.

Groupthink umami

This I imagine is worldview mixed with upbringing, culture and something else; in cookery, this would be the Umami.

Memories

Back to the cyclists and my standing on the kerbside with my dog.

Immunology, Samsara & Mindfulness

It could be that the Puff did indeed have some components of shellfish – a scraping of some Umami residue perhaps and the person is heading rapidly into anaphylaxis

John Lennon and HD TV

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans, John Lennon sang this in 1980 in ‘Beautiful Boy’, which featured in his Double Fantasy album. Listening to it brings back memories and feelings of my life in the 80’s (a desultory Glaswegian schoolboy). I was thinking about this song on Friday when IContinue reading “John Lennon and HD TV”