Monday, November 30, 2020

Losing Control: Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Suppression of Unwanted Thoughts - Marcus O. Harrington, Jennifer E. Ashton, Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian, Michael C. Anderson, Scott A. Cairney, 2020

Losing Control: Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Suppression of Unwanted Thoughts - Marcus O. Harrington, Jennifer E. Ashton, Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian, Michael C. Anderson, Scott A. Cairney, 2020

 I feel that this may shed light on why I tend to be more anxious while jet lagged.

Coronavirus - Mindfulness is useless in a pandemic | 1843 magazine | The Economist

Coronavirus - Mindfulness is useless in a pandemic | 1843 magazine | The Economist

Philosophers and Silicon Valley mindfulness gurus are advocates for the present partly because they tend to have rather a nice one (Seneca was one of the richest men in Rome and regularly threw dinner parties for 1,000 guests). For most people, daily life is more dreary. Would it be so very bad to be absent when stacking the dishwasher, to imagine yourself swimming in the sea off Croatia instead?

When the present is crushing – when lives and economies are being ruined – our imagination offers us a welcome escape. The mind, as Milton put it, is its own place: it can make a hell of heaven, or a heaven of hell. Perhaps we should let it.