The Spruce Podcast

The Spruce Podcast. Your Brain Is Not Separate From Your Body. We talk about the brain constantly. The anxious brain. The autistic brain. The ADHD brain. The traumatised brain. The creative brain. And sometimes our language makes it sound as though the brain is a small person sitting inside the skull, issuing instructions to everything else. But...

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The Spruce Podcast. Why Making Art Can Change a State. There is a particular kind of relief that can happen when the hands become busy. A pen moves across paper. Paint spreads into water. A repeated pattern grows. A line bends around another line. Nothing important has been solved. And yet something inside feels slightly different. Researchers...

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The Spruce Podcast. What Ten Minutes of Mindfulness Can Change. Mindfulness is often presented as something large. A practice. A lifestyle. A commitment. Something involving cushions, retreats, or twenty minutes of silence twice a day. But some of the most interesting recent research is asking a smaller question. What can happen after only a brief...

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The Spruce Podcast. Mindfulness Does Not Have to Mean Calm. There is a subtle trap hidden inside mindfulness. We begin because we want to feel better. Then we sit quietly. And we don't feel better. Perhaps we notice irritation. Restlessness. Pain. Noise. Thoughts becoming louder rather than quieter. And somewhere along the way, we conclude that...

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The Spruce Podcast. ADHD and the Rhythm of Attention. We often talk about attention as though it were a spotlight. Either it is pointing at the right thing or it isn't. But inside the brain, attention is also rhythmic. Neural populations produce repeating patterns of electrical activity. Different patterns appear at different frequencies, rather...

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