Take a moment to be present in the moment.

Daydreaming about an interesting idea can yield creative insights, a process Jonathan Schooler calls mind-wondering, rather than mind-wandering.

A powerful determinant of self-regulation—our ability to do the things we know we should do—is how we interpret effort.

Dr. Michael Mrazek and the CMHP Mindful Education Initiative were featured in the latest Time Magazine special edition: The New Mindfulness

An excerpt from the article:

"Mrazek and his team are developing an online program using mindfulness practices to increase academic achievement in high schoolers. 

Aha! moments of inspiration seem to come from nowhere – but the counterintuitive key to a creative brain is to defocus your thoughts

Keep your mind from 'zoning out' on the road

Huffington Post

Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real

Which means science is broken.

Comfortably Dumb: If the Car Is Doing the Driving, Will Anybody Be Doing the Thinking?

Shape magazine

Wired

There’s a reason some people say they get their best ideas when they’re running. A new study from researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and published in the journal Psychological Science, suggests that a clear mind—free of too much chatter—is a more creative one.

But we’re better off believing in it anyway.

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New Scientist Article

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Therapists now have the ability to track their patients’ progress between therapy visits with Mobile Therapy, a recently launched web-based dashboard and mobile application, one researcher told Healio.com/Psychiatry.

Bridging the Gaps

The New Yorker

A study found that people prefer electric shocks to time alone with their thoughts.

In the rush of everyday life, many people say they crave a moment of solitude, but a startling new study finds that people don’t really enjoy spending even 10 minutes alone with their thoughts.

If you find yourself in a creative slump, scientists have a suggestion: Take a walk.

People generate more creative ideas when they walk than when they sit, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.

Neuroethics at the Core: The Blog of the National Core of Neuroethics

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BBC HORIZON

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TIME

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Nature

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