On Using Your Complete Mind
The mind is no longer equated with the brain. The complete mind includes the body, the environment, and also technology.
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marymartinphd
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Drop in for Maui and for You
Put out the welcome mat for 15 minutes on Thursdays. For Maui, and for yourself.
marymartinphd
- Aug 22
- 2 min
On Tracking Your Feeling Tone
Apple is coming out with a tracker for your feelings. How do you feel about that? My concern is we already have enough dependence on phones.
marymartinphd
- Aug 14
- 2 min
The Path is Made When Walking
There is no path or pathway in the brain that predicts awareness. It's kind of the opposite, as the brain's default mode is mind-wandering.
marymartinphd
- Aug 6
- 3 min
On Systems for Thinking & Writing
Systems for organizing media you consume lighten your mental load and help your brain percolate in peace so you can create new things.
marymartinphd
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Be in Silence for 10 Minutes
Anything that brings us together helps. Spending time in solitude helps you see your own humanity more clearly and is a window into others.
marymartinphd
- Jun 21
- 3 min
How We Create Our Realities Matters
Your brain is constantly creating your reality from the data your body sends it. This includes your interoception and your feeling tone.
marymartinphd
- Jun 5
- 4 min
Well-Being is a Skill
When we talk about the neuroplasticity of well-being we're referring to the reality that well-being isn't static. And you can improve it.
marymartinphd
- May 30
- 2 min
Please Stop Glorifying Empathy
I see so much focus on empathy, and I ask everyone who advocates for it to sit with precisely what it is they think they're advocating for.
marymartinphd
- May 22
- 2 min
Listen to Your Body, But Be Careful Interpreting What It's Saying
If you don't have a practice for noticing your body's sensations and your brain's interpretations, you'll do what you've always done.
marymartinphd
- May 15
- 2 min
For Today, Don't Make Assumptions
Jumping to like one person over another is often the result of taking faulty, silly, or even harmful mental shortcuts. Pause and look inward
marymartinphd
- Apr 27
- 3 min
On Free Will, Neurolaw, and Tiny Habits
Your brain has decided what you're going to do before you do it. Free will, in neuroscientific terms, doesn't exist. But all is not lost.
marymartinphd
- Mar 16
- 2 min
On Learning, Habits, and Snowballs
When was the last time you learned a new skill or acquired a new habit? How did that happen? Odds are there were a bunch of ingredients...
marymartinphd
- Feb 27
- 2 min
On the Feeling of Vulnerability
There's a feeling that accompanies vulnerability. You don't have to say a thing. You don't have to do a thing.
marymartinphd
- Feb 6
- 3 min
On Creating Time Spaciousness
Mindfulness can result in time spaciousness, where you have the mental time and space to think and reflect, clearly, and into the future.
marymartinphd
- Jan 5
- 4 min
If Andrew Huberman Doesn't Understand Mindfulness, You Might Not Either
A neuroscientist with one of the most popular podcasts, who has instructed people in "perceptual exercises," discovers mindfulness.
marymartinphd
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
Tell Me Something Good. Or Don't.
At any given moment, greeting people and asking them to tell you something good is helpful for some people, but not for everyone.
marymartinphd
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
Big News
Thought leader, genius, and overall-awesome human being, Julie Fortin and I are partnering on The Future of Financial Advice.
marymartinphd
- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
Don't Shop for ANYTHING When Hungry
The next time the idea pops into/out of your head to buy something—that you "need" it or want it or as a gift or whatever—pause.
marymartinphd
- Nov 9, 2022
- 1 min
Let me hold the door for you on Nov 19
Whatever you're carrying, and whatever is coming up for the rest of the year that might be weighing on you, let me hold the door for you.
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