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The Path to Mindcoolness #3 – Asking Why

April 9, 2016 Dominic Reichl

overthinking taking action

In his unpublished manuscripts, Nietzsche wrote: sieh hinaus! sieh nicht zurück! man geht zugrunde, wenn man immer zu den Gründen geht This exhortation translates roughly to: "look forward! look not back! one perishes if one always reverts to the reasons." It's an invocation of mindcoolness: Let your Will not be thwarted by overconsideration. Quiet your mind and march forth, undeterred by overthinking. For reconsideration disempowers the Will, replacing vigor with doubt, replacing How with … [Read more...]

Mastery anxiety, mindcoolness, mindfulness, philosophy

The Path to Mindcoolness #2 – Needing Stimulation

March 24, 2016 Dominic Reichl

addicted to external stimulation

He wakes up in the morning: — radio. He goes to work: — audiobook. He works: — podcast. He works out: — music. He needs to relax: — YouTube, TV, Netflix. He doesn't need creativity or an original mind. He needs passivity and constant external stimulation. He would rather see his genius wither than feel a stillness in his mind. The slave in him is an avid consumer. The slave in him fears the path to mindcoolness. And it exhausts and tires him. … [Read more...]

Mastery mindcoolness, mindfulness, philosophy

The Path to Mindcoolness #1

March 16, 2016 Dominic Reichl

mindcoolness

Sometimes, when you feel angry, you want to feel angry. Sometimes, when you feel sad, you want to feel sad. You don't even allow yourself to feel any different. You don't want to keep cool. You choose these emotions. You crave them. You know you could meditate on what you feel to cool your mind. You don't want to. You need the bad emotions. You cling to them. You think they provide you with life. You fear coolness. You know you could live an exciting life: date, fuck, travel, hustle, … [Read more...]

Mastery emotions, mindcoolness, mindfulness, philosophy

How to Alleviate Stress: Physical Exercise vs. Biofeedback vs. Meditation

March 11, 2016 Dominic Reichl

how to alleviate stress

How to alleviate stress: If you want to reduce stress and anxiety, should you rather be more physically active, practice meditation, or use a biofeedback device? (If you want to learn about emotion regulation in general, check out this article! I've also discussed how biofeedback enhances sports performance here.) Van der Zwan and her colleagues in Amsterdam tackled this question in 2015 with a controlled intervention study. 76 participants kept up their daily home exercise for 5 weeks, … [Read more...]

Theory anxiety, biofeedback, embodied cognition, mindfulness, psychology

8 Reasons Why You’re Still Not Meditating Every Day

February 17, 2016 Dominic Reichl

You've read about meditation. You know about its benefits: on health, happiness, vitality, empathy, focus, and success. Every day you hear yet another rhapsody about the wonders of mindfulness exercise. Every day you come across a new scientific study about yet another way in which meditation positively affects your brain and body. Every day twenty new generic blog posts are written to te... You get the picture. Maybe you're already zealously telling others about meditation, and about how you … [Read more...]

Mastery emotions, mindfulness, personal-development

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