Beautiful Dust Specks

Beautiful Dust Specks

By Alex Hofeldt - Teacher, Coach, and Thinker
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Beautiful Dust Specks episodes

  • E28- When the craziness of smell combines with the beauty of taste to combine into the wonders of Flavor... The Flavor of this Life.
    In this episode I break down our sense of smell and taste. Science now knows that these two senses combine to provide our minds and lives with the wonders of flavor! Flavor, smell, and taste give the gifts of delicious food and provide our minds with connections to what we are eating. By understanding the science behind our bodies perceptions with food we can change our mindset surrounding our food choices. A healthy body and mind will allow you to get the most out these wonderful moments we call life. Lets peel back the layers of our senses to relive just how truly amazing the flavor of today is! | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e28-the-sense-of-smell-the-sense-of-taste-combi?auid=aGZcKxNd
    31 min
  • E27- Senses: The Physiological Capacity to Provide Data for Perception
    Have you ever sat back and really pondered your ability to ponder? Have you ever tried to feel your sense of feeling? Have you ever listened to the wonders of listening? Have you ever really attempted to taste and smell the taste and smells of your favorite meal? The senses of the body allow of take the internal and make it external and the external and make it internal. Our ideas, thoughts, feelings, and emotions are all governed and even created by our senses. These are our superpowers and these are how we "feel" the world at our fingertips.
    Take the time to appreciate these gifts so that you may attempt to change the input settings. Surround yourself with positive stimuli and watch your body and mind flourish. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e27?auid=aGZcKxNd
    38 min
  • E26- Flow States: The New Science Behind Optimal Performance, Creativity, and Happiness
    I have always lived a life a wash in flow. I have spent endless hours, dollars, and body parts on chasing it down. Flow is the newest buzz terms regarding the human state of optimal performance. In the zone, in the pocket, losing a sense time and space. Science is uncovering a whole new world and quantifying what is happening in you that could allow your body and mind to reach an unconscious level of optimal human performance. This episode will breakdown the neurotransmitters and introduce concepts that will allow you to control your environment in hopes of reaching new heights of cognitive and physical moments. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/ep26?auid=aGZcKxNd
    39 min
  • E25- The Story That Lead to Now is a 13,700,000,000 Year Old Epic Saga... A Review
    Each aspect of this life is a part of a story that dates back to the dawn of the Universe. This fantastic tale is the greatest story ever told. If you study it with a curious mind it will enliven your life. Science is always thought of and remembered as a tough subject you took in school, but it is so much more. It is a lens to gaze upon the Earth, a lens that will fill your life up with wonder, awe, and motivation. Science enlivens the mind and can fill you with gratitude for each of moment of this life. I promise I will tell you this story each week with passion, enthusiasm and laughs. All you need to do is listen, open your mind, and enjoy the ride. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e25?auid=aGZcKxNd
    22 min
  • E24- Love... An Epic Concontion of Chemistry and Mind That Changes Us All
    Love is the most powerful emotion we humans can experience. We spend our whole lives chasing these feelings and dealing with them if/when we can catch the love. Creatives have attempted to describe it for all of recorded history through the lens of art, music, poetry. Now science is joining the conversation in hopes of adding to our human understanding of the awesome power of LOVE. Love yourself and be love everyone around you. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e24?auid=aGZcKxNd
    32 min
  • E23 - My Happy Hacks - Six Actions to Make You a Happier Humans
    The last episode taught us that our "feelings" of happy and sad are neurotransmitters flowing through our brain, nerves, and bodies. This flow creates various states of being that we call happy, sad, love, pumped, bummed, etc. Let me share with you couple easy strategies that will allow you reach, strive, and attack your own happiness. Happy and love are the best. These two emotions are the best emotions and I want to help you reach higher/longer/fuller states of happiness. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e23?auid=aGZcKxNd
    25 min
  • E22- Happy & Sad... The Infinite Sliding Scale of Human Emotion - Let's Hack It
    We all strive for happiness. We strive for a life filled with joy and wonder. A life of contentment, peace, and smiles. However, we are human and we humans live our days out swimming through a sea of emotions. In this episode I want to first teach you about the NEUROCHEMISTRY that is in your body and discuss the good and the bad it brings us. By understanding how the machine, you, is regulated by this chemistry we can begin to hack it. You can make choices, reframe the question, and choose a dynamic life. By doing so you will increase happiness, prolong the highs and lessen the lows. In order to embrace the chaos, we must first learn about the chemical chaos with. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e22?auid=aGZcKxNd
    41 min
  • E21- Neurochemistry- The Chemical Side of the Human Emotional Experience
    Another fun episode that was kind of unexpected. I am going to do a three part episode on Neurochemistry. This episode is an overview and introduction into the topics and feelings associated with this topic. I want to discuss next looking at the chemical combinations of love & loneliness. Then happy & sad and finishing with creativity & flow. Lets dive into this with a creative mind and a curious self. Enjoy the ride and leave comments if it makes you happy. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e21?auid=aGZcKxNd
    25 min
  • E20- Life's Big Questions, How Asking Questions May Be Our Greatest Gift
    This episode is a very fun episode where I discuss our human capacity to ask questions. We always think that a person's ability to answer a question is our greatest gift, but I think that our most epic ability is our asking brain. All great break throughs, wonders, and discoveries began with a person forming a question. Let me teach you how and why you should ask a new question each and every day. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e20?auid=aGZcKxNd
    25 min
  • E.18 The Overview Effect - Astronauts' Words of Wisdom
    The Overview Effect is a new term coined by Frank White and others. This effect personifies the ideas and feelings brought back inside the courageous astronauts who have seen the whole Earth at a glance. Each of them verbally describe a blissful feeling of awe, connectedness, and wonder regarding our Earth. This episode attempts to convey their emotions through direct quotes from these astronauts. These are some of the bravest and wonderful educated daredevils. Listen to their words and get a glimpse of this feeling. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@The_ScienceBro/e17-3?auid=aGZcKxNd
    23 min

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You are a wonderful walking, talking, thinking, feeling ball of vibrating star matter energized by starlight. Each week we will dive in to uncover the extraordinary science within our ordinary…