Flourish As You Age
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
Flourish As You Age
MIND - Strategies to End Conflict & Confusion
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In this episode I preview some of the practical ways we can begin to un-muddle our minds. We can use our growing understanding about the different nature of our two hemispheres to re-balance the influence of our left hemisphere (LH) and our right hemisphere (RH).
Since LH dominance causes distortions of reality, we should search for strategies to control LH influence. At the same time, we should find strategies to pump up engagement with RH perspectives. Strategies we will begin to explore include:
- MEDITATION - How can meditation balance the influence of the two hemispheres?
- THE USE OF LANGUAGE - How does the language we use push our minds towards the perspective of one hemisphere or the other?
- METAPHORS - How do some metaphors encourage LH modes of thinking while others ground us in RH perspectives?
- WORLD VIEWS - How do our philosophies favor one hemisphere over the other?
- PSYCHEDELICS & MYSTICISM - Can psychedelic and mystical experiences jolt our minds out of LH dominance and restore hemispheric balance?
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