SAMVAD (Together In Conversation)

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled – The Real You from a book titled ‘Personal Freedom – On finding your Way to the Real World’ by Dr. Arthur Deikman.

In Personal Freedom Dr. Arthur Deikman shows us a key to unlocking the door of this invisible prison of ideas that has enclosed us since birth. We deceive ourselves, he demonstrates, by taking our identities from the people around us instead of looking closely at what we actually are. With a lyrical yet scientific approach he enables us to see the possibility of freedom and to take steps to make that freedom our own.

The Real You

Remember those times you were touched by something impalpable emanating from that “outside” realm of people and things. Music, nature, sports, prayer, insight, friendship, or love — a moment when you felt connected, merging, exalted. I’m talking about those special times when you felt a joyous reverence and gratitude and mystery and recognition, at finding yourself, once again, at that place. Of course, you can “explain” it and nothing need change. The mechanical puppet called the cosmos can clank along forever: just tell yourself that those experiences, “mystical” or otherwise, are the infantile derivatives of wishes, fears, and early memories. It’s simple. But is that what they feel like? Talk to children and see if they experience such things. Consider carefully whether those special moments really fit the vapid formula: “Infantile derivatives.” Isn’t that explanation something you have swallowed, force-fed, like an infant, indeed, but have never been able to digest? It’s indigestible because it doesn’t fit, that’s why. It’s another swindle, like Time.

You are told you are basically alone — in empty space. Yet, when you love, are you alone? When you look, unguarded, into another’s eyes, clear place to clear place, are you alone? When you wholeheartedly engage in work or play, are you alone? There is only one way to be alone: by thinking about it. The thought creates the aloneness; the concept is the problem. “Aloneness” does not fit experience.

Excerpt from ‘Personal Freedom – On finding your Way to the Real World’ by Dr. Arthur Deikman.

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this thought provoking book. You can click on the following link and buy your copy: https://qsconsultants.in/resources/books/

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled – Empowering Approach – Human Givens from a book titled ‘Human Givens – An Empowering Approach to Emotional Health and Clear thinking’ by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell.

In this book the co-founders of the human givens approach, Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell, exquisitely describe one of the most important psychological insights of our age: how we all come into the world with a partially formed mind containing a genetic treasure-house of innate knowledge patterns: the ‘human givens’. We all experience these givens as physical and emotional needs, powerful forces that must be satisfactorily met in our environment if our minds and lives are to unfold and develop to their fullest potential. How these innate patterns connect up with the world, and unfold in it, determine our own and our family’s emotional health and happiness – as well as the maturity and humanity of the society we create around us.

Empowering Approach – Human Givens

At a basic level, all organisms seek nourishment to renew themselves and then give waste material back to the environment to be recycled again and again. Oxygen the waste gas of plant life, for example, becomes an energy source of animal life. 

If we look at human beings in the same way as a gardener studies plants, we can ask: what physical, psychological and social nutriment does this creature need for the successful bringing to fruition of its innate nature? We can also look for what might be preventing these inner templates from connecting to the greater world. But a person is not a plant and we need not just material but also mental, emotional and, some would say, spiritual nourishment if we are to flourish. And, while plants ‘know’ how to grow, children and adults need structured guidance to optimise their own self development…”

Excerpt from ‘Human Givens – An Empowering Approach to Emotional Health and Clear thinking’ by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell.

I am sure that you will enjoy reading these articles; you can click on the following link:

https://www.humangivens.com/publications/human-givens-book

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled – Maintaining a Stable World from a collection of articles titled ‘Our Mind In the Modern World’ by Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally Mallam

These articles draw our attention to the fact as to how we have created an unprecedented world for ourselves, whereas all other animals live inside their original habitat where they have adapted ‘by design’ to it. And the way forward for us in our unprecedented creation would be an evolution of our consciousness.

Maintaining a Stable World

The achievement of the human mind is to have stability in a world where there is constant change. There’s a lot of work behind the scenes to make this happen, and it comes at great cost: We have to simplify, overgeneralize, ignore, predict, and make assumptions. It’s a constant that much of our experience is edited out scene by scene, moment by moment, feature by feature. Remember: You haven’t seen your nose lately, nor are you aware of what happens, thousands of times per day, when you blink and the world doesn’t disappear into a black nothingness.

Our experience of the world assembles in a fleeting instant, with no time for thinking but just enough for producing a best guess of the world. To act quickly we assume a lot about the world we perceive.

It is very difficult for us to judge anything absolutely, as we are wired to measure things only by comparison. Things are not heavy but are heavier than we expect or were previously experiencing — brighter, richer, more intelligent. We adapt to temperatures, to a level of income or net worth, to comfort, to taste; and we judge based on our assumed level of adaptation.

What we actually experience is the category which is evoked by a particular stimulus, not the occurrence in the external world.

Excerpt from ‘Our Mind In the Modern World’ by Robert Ornstein, David Sobel & Sally Mallam

I am sure that you will enjoy reading these articles; you can click on the following link:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention an excerpt which we have titled – Rapidly Changing Modern World from a collection of articles titled ‘Our Mind In the Modern World’ by Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally Mallam

These articles draw our attention to the fact as to how we have created an unprecedented world for ourselves, whereas all other animals live inside their original habitat where they have adapted ‘by design’ to it. And the way forward for us in our unprecedented creation would be an evolution of our consciousness.

Rapidly Changing Modern World

The world has been comparatively stable for tens of thousands of years, and for tens of thousands of years it has been our practice to take what we wanted from it without recompense. All that mattered was a rising standard of living. Only rarely, if ever, did we look back to examine the effect of these actions on the world, because our brains didn’t need to do so to survive and progress always led us forward.

From the Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century our “tool” use began to speed up, backed by powerful new energy sources: from coal, to gas, to electronics and nuclear energy, to the internet and renewable energy. And as we discovered different energy sources and later, digital technologies, the world changed radically, over and over.

Excerpt from ‘Our Mind In the Modern World’ by Robert Ornstein, David Sobel & Sally Mallam

I am sure that you will enjoy reading these articles; you can click on the following link and read these articles:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Music In Our Lives from the book titled ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein.

Playing to the natural strengths of mind and body, Healthy Pleasures explores the many ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the crucial role of pleasure in our health.

Using the latest research in medicine, biology, and psychology, the authors — a renowned brain researcher and a leading expert in preventive medicine — propose a new way to manage health, with less effort and more fun. 

Music In Our Lives

Over twenty-five hundred years ago, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras may have been on to something. He advocated daily singing and playing of an instrument as a cathartic to cleanse the emotions of worry, sorrow, fear, and anger. Learning to play a musical instrument can increase the pleasure you get from music, and give you a sense of mastery and pride in your accomplishment. And while a sonata a day may not keep the doctor away, it will probably feel good regardless. Enjoying music is one of the best examples of human-made sensual pleasures, and is an easy way to reclaim some of the sensuality lost in our lives.

Excerpt from ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Good Vibes from the book titled ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein.

Playing to the natural strengths of mind and body, Healthy Pleasures explores the many ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the crucial role of pleasure in our health.

Using the latest research in medicine, biology, and psychology, the authors — a renowned brain researcher and a leading expert in preventive medicine — propose a new way to manage health, with less effort and more fun. 

Good Vibes

Almost everyone has a musical preference, playing “radio roulette,” tapping feet in time to music, singing along with a favorite tune at the top of our lungs. We don’t have to splurge for a subscription to the symphony, retreat under headphones, or go to church to tune in to how music affects us. Be it Bach, jazz, rock, gospel, or pop, music is a mood mover. The right music at the right time brings us joy and serenity and soothes frazzled nerves. It lifts us up when we’re down, and calms us when we’re too excited.

One study showed that moving to an even rhythm made muscles flex and extend more smoothly. And music may get you in tune with your body, increasing endurance, regulating breathing, and getting you in the mood to exercise.

Excerpt from ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Looking at Life from the book titled ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein.

Playing to the natural strengths of mind and body, Healthy Pleasures explores the many ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the crucial role of pleasure in our health.

Using the latest research in medicine, biology, and psychology, the authors — a renowned brain researcher and a leading expert in preventive medicine — propose a new way to manage health, with less effort and more fun. 

Looking at Life

We seem to be designed to view natural scenes, and this is reflected in our emotional and physical well-being. We prefer certain types of landscapes, perhaps as a result of a deep-rooted evolutionary experience. Regardless of cultural background, we tend to favor park like scenes with smooth ground cover, scattered trees, lakes, and a degree of openness and depth.

Evolution may have given us a deep need to look at life.

So, try to include some elements from the natural environment in your home and work place. Plants, pets, windows with views of natural scenes, paintings or photographs of nature, or even an aquarium can transform a lifeless man-made environment and reconnect you with nature.

Excerpt from ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Light and Our Mood from the book titled ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein.

Playing to the natural strengths of mind and body, Healthy Pleasures explores the many ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the crucial role of pleasure in our health.

Using the latest research in medicine, biology, and psychology, the authors — a renowned brain researcher and a leading expert in preventive medicine — propose a new way to manage health, with less effort and more fun. 

Light and Our Mood

Almost everyone experiences some change in mood related to the presence or absence of sunlight. On bright, sunny days we tend to feel better, perhaps more energetic, and “sunny.” On dull, gray days, we may feel moody, blue, and out of sorts. Most of us seem, at least to some degree, to be biologically programmed to follow the sun.

It appears that light talks to the brain via the pineal gland. This tiny gland, buried deep within the brain, secretes a brain hormone which can induce sleep as well as depress mood.

Excerpt from ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Room with a View from the book titled ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein.

Playing to the natural strengths of mind and body, Healthy Pleasures explores the many ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the crucial role of pleasure in our health.

Using the latest research in medicine, biology, and psychology, the authors — a renowned brain researcher and a leading expert in preventive medicine — propose a new way to manage health, with less effort and more fun. 

Room with a View

Gazing at fish slowly wandering back and forth in a tank, Looking out of a window at a small stand of trees. Staring into a fire as a burning log consumes itself. Watching clouds form and reform on the canvas of a blue sky. Contemplating the surface of a tranquil lake. Watching birds nest in a tree. We have an appetite for such visual feasts.

Given a choice between viewing a natural scene rich in foliage or an urban landscape devoid of vegetation or water, we nearly always favor the nature scene. This may come as no surprise, but there is now mounting evidence that such choices may be more than simple aesthetic preferences. Flooding our brains with rich natural visual stimulation helps us recover from surgery, tolerate pain, manage stress, and attain well-being.

Excerpt from ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.

This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Mental Channel from the book titled ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein.

Playing to the natural strengths of mind and body, Healthy Pleasures explores the many ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the crucial role of pleasure in our health.

Using the latest research in medicine, biology, and psychology, the authors — a renowned brain researcher and a leading expert in preventive medicine — propose a new way to manage health, with less effort and more fun. 

Mental Channel

The mental channel (second) determines the way we judge the world and ourselves, our tendencies toward optimism or pessimism, and our interpretation of the world. The mental channel assesses life satisfaction.

The “programs” of the mental channel address such questions as “How’s your life going?” “Are you happy with how fast you’re moving up at the firm?” and “How satisfied are you with your marriage?” These questions are more intricate than those asking whether you enjoy the taste of a peach or the sound of music. So, understanding the “internal mathematics” of judgment—whether we are satisfied, optimistic, happy—is important to health.

Excerpt from ‘Healthy Pleasures’ by David Sobel and Robert Ornstein

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.

Namaste!