Teaching What Teachers Can’t
Lincoln Stoller2019-06-04T10:02:29-07:00With caution against excessive immersion, action video games can help us learn, focus, and multitask.
Who Says What Sleep Is?
Lincoln Stoller2019-06-19T21:08:50-07:00A surge of interest in the consequences of poor sleep has gotten people worried about what is perceived to be a growing epidemic.
Evolving Your Own Success
Lincoln Stoller2019-04-19T16:09:31-07:00Organizations that are forward-looking, reflective, and self-challenging tend to survive and perform better.
Evolution’s Choice
Lincoln Stoller2019-05-29T08:45:24-07:00When it comes to your health, winning seems the imperative, and it seems one must win at all costs. This is rarely true; it is rarely the case that your fate is sealed and you must play the game set before you.
Origin of Chronic Illness and the Nonsense of Medical Hypnosis
Lincoln Stoller2019-05-27T00:25:34-07:00"The origin of chronic illness lies in the struggle with our emotions. More specifically, the conflict between the controlled person we have created ourselves to be and the emotions inside us..."
Beyond The Hypnotic State
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-18T00:02:59-07:00Hypnosis is an attempt to extend the limits of intention, to amplify what is sometimes called “the placebo effect” to cause lasting change.
Three Forms of Stress
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-15T15:02:39-07:00"There are many forms of relaxation: mental, physical, visceral, temporal, pertaining to health, exercise, work, play, or relationships, for a start. These feel different, require different means, and have different ends, but we distinguish them
The Reality of Illusion
Lincoln Stoller2019-03-05T02:11:12-07:00This piece is about what we think is real and the difference between sensation and feeling. It is about the worlds of imagination and dreams, and the process of making feelings into sensations, that is making dreams real.This confusion about real and imagined disease is just plain dumb. It is a fallacy that imagination is not real, it can have as much effect as any other perception. In fact, everything sensed through perception is an act of imagination.
Sleep Authority, and Why We Don’t Have It
Lincoln Stoller2019-03-05T02:17:05-07:00"One of the paradoxes of sleep is that the harder you try, the less you get. It would seem you are responsible, but lack the authority to procure it. The fundamental rule that authority must come with responsibility doesn't apply to sleep... It's a paradox for me too. I can see a person's problem, and what he or she needs. I could sell them an illusion that there is something they can do, but it would never work. What they need is not to do, and not to try. You cannot force your way into a sleeping state of mind..."
Evolve Change Revolution
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-17T23:31:46-07:00"If we don’t approach change correctly, we can’t make it happen. If you want to make better changes, you need a better understanding of how things change. This applies as much to your
Interpretation of Dreams
Lincoln Stoller2019-03-05T02:25:45-07:00"Reality consists of our assumptions about things we have not experienced: the common elements. We fill in the blanks by social contract, seeing the same things in a world of which we're mostly unaware. Everyday events are so familiar as to mean little. We 'think' strings of events and actions into stories flat and forward looking. And when we're finished building our flat story, with idiosyncrasies removed, we call it reality. The 'real world,' as opposed to the dream world..."
Seeing Stars
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-17T23:53:30-07:00"We talk about the lifetime of a system as the time over which it works, between its beginning and its end, and for stars that shine this is a long time. "What does it mean