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Forget Your Hope Lest You Forget Your Self

February 16, 2022 Dominic Reichl

This very moment right here, right now is your life. Look at it. It's as good as it gets. There is nothing to wish for, nothing to hope for. Your desires are mere distractions. They distract you from the simple truth that this is reality. Reality won't get any better. It will either stay reality or be gone. There is no room for hope, no need for hope, for all is well. But perhaps you're suffering, sad, or frustrated? That's okay. Emotions are beside the point. The point is that this very … [Read more...]

Blog mindfulness, personal-development

Buddhism Debunked: Meditation Boosts the Ego

July 8, 2018 Dominic Reichl

buddhism debunked

According to Hinduist and Buddhist philosophy, the ego is a major source of human suffering. Hence, Eastern mind-body practices like yoga and meditation are intended to quiet the ego, to deflate one's sense of self-importance, in order to improve well-being. Indeed, we know from a myriad of scientific studies that mindfulness practice factually improves well-being. But is this really due to a quieting of the ego? In a new study, Gebauer et al. (2018) conducted two experiments to investigate the … [Read more...]

Blog mindfulness, philosophy, science

New Meditation Mindset

April 8, 2018 Dominic Reichl

meditation mindset

Even after years of practice, I still find it hard sometimes to sit in silence and meditate. Especially when I have important work to do. Then I keep thinking about how many more minutes it will take for my alarm to go off so that I can go back to work. But today during meditation, a new mindset came over me—a mindset sub specie aeternitatis that quickly made my workaholic worries go away. Here it is in a nutshell: The alarm is never going to go off. I will be sitting here for all eternity, … [Read more...]

Blog mindfulness, philosophy

How to Relieve Emotional Tension in the Face

March 6, 2018 Dominic Reichl

emotional tension face

Let's talk about your face. What's the state of your face right now? The muscular state of your face, that is. Don't look in the mirror. Don't touch your face. Just experience it from within, proprioceptively. Is your face smooth and impressionable like a child's, ready to spontaneously express whatever emotional impulse comes up? Or is your face tense and rigid, stricken by past emotions imprinted in its musculature, perpetuating old memories like reminiscent scars? Emotional distress is … [Read more...]

Blog body-intelligence, breathing, embodied cognition, mindfulness, psychology

Negativity Bias in Ethics

January 21, 2018 Dominic Reichl

negativity bias ethics

Introduction Human cognition is biased towards negativity. We feel worse about losing money than we feel good about winning money. We think and reason more about what makes us sad than about what makes us happy. We pay more attention to negative events than positive events. We remember hardship better than fortune and rivalry better than conviviality. Punishment is more effective for learning than reward. Drama sells better than harmony. Disrespect hurts more than respect feels good. And … [Read more...]

Blog ethics, happiness, mindfulness, rationality, religion

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