Compassion Meditation Changes the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080326204236.htm

The Path of Nonviolence

Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words.

Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviors.

Keep your behaviors positive, because your behaviors become your habits.

Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Mohandas Gandhi

From the wonderful podcast: “My Education in the Path of Nonviolence”, Arun Gandhi on iTunes U at Stanford.

3 C’s of design

According to John Maeda:

• Content: There needs to be a message or meaning. Everything needs a reason to exist, otherwise it shouldn’t.
• Context: Content doesn’t live in a vacuum. A Chanel bag sitting on a shelf at Wal-Mart will only confuse.
• Contrast: An element is made stronger when a counterelement is offered. Salt tastes saltier after one has had some sugar.

Subject to Change

STOP DESIGNING “PRODUCTS”
“The true success of experience design isn’t how well it works when everything is operating as planned, but how well it works when things start going wrong.” Products are simply interfaces to every service a firm provides.

Cited in:
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/02/while-i-still-h.html

Cognitive reframing

Cognitive reframing: according to T.K.V. Desikachar this type of mental reprogramming is an ancient yogic technique, one that is described by the sage Patanjali in Yoga Sutra II.33 as prakti paksha bhavana.