Daniel Goleman

Altered Traits

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    Sigmund Freud advised psychoanalysts to adopt an “even-hovering attention” while listening to their clients—but again, offered no method.
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    THE ACCELERATION
    As early as the 1830s, Thoreau and Emerson, along with their fellow American Transcendentalists, flirted with these Eastern inner arts.
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    Meditation is a catch-all word for myriad varieties of contemplative practice, just as sports refers to a wide range of athletic activities. For both sports and meditation, the end results vary depending on what you actually do.
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    These reactions were typical of the opposition we faced from our department heads, who were still responding with knee-jerk negativity toward anything to do with consciousness—perhaps a mild form of PTSD after the notorious debacle involving Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Leary and Alpert had been very publicly ousted from our department in a brouhaha over letting Harvard undergrads experiment with psychedelics. This was some five years before we arrived, but the echoes lingered.
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    And when Richie told one of his Harvard professors that he
    wanted to focus his dissertation on meditation, the blunt response came immediately: that would be a career-ending move.
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    Richie, with long hair and attire in keeping with the zeitgeist of Cambridge in those times—including a colorful woven sash that he wore as a belt—was startled when his professor said, “One clue to schizophrenia is the bizarre way a person dresses,” giving Richie a meaningful glance.
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    doctoral dissertations applied that advice by studying ways meditation could have cognitive and emotional payoffs.
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    desk, or via minutes-long meditation apps, exemplify this level.
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    The current vogues of mindfulness-at-your-
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    The even more widely accessible forms of meditation at Level 4 are, of necessity, the most watered-down, all the better to render them handy for the largest number of people
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