By Francis P. Cholle — 2011
We don’t have to reject scientific logic in order to benefit from instinct.
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Your life depends on your brain. To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. You need your brain and you also need to use your brain. It is not enough to possess a perfectly good brain—you must also use it.
In order to be able to answer the question of whether productive obsessing is something to shun or to value, it would be good to know what consciousness is—not only in a biochemical sense but also in a way that does justice to our felt experience of individuality and instrumentality.
The ability to control our dreams is a skill that more of us are seeking to acquire for sheer pleasure. But if taken seriously, scientists believe it could unlock new secrets of the mind.
his fall, Ku Stevens became the fastest cross-country runner in Nevada. But he would be running even if he wasn’t winning.
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
Out pro wrestler Logan Black found the response to his coming out ‘overwhelming in the best way.’
I was told that I should receive an appointment in about six to eight weeks, but my gut was telling me that something wasn’t right, so I decided I wanted to get it investigated sooner than that.
“People treat intuition like it’s a dirty word, but it’s actually one of the body’s survival mechanisms,” says Dr. Antoine Bechara.
“Never stop asking. Stay on those doctors. If you feel something is wrong and your doctor isn’t doing something, go to someone else.”
Mother-of-three Karen McDonnell believes that knowing her body and trusting her gut instinct is what gave her the chance to fight the deadly disease, writes Arlene Harris. She urges others to get any symptoms checked by their GP