Funny how Cornwall now seems a million miles away.
I was listening to a Radio 4 programme about Neuroscience, and how we may be ‘nudged’ into thinking a certain way because, apparently, it’s not our conscious minds, but our ‘automatic brain’ that does most of the decision-making!
Seems like the Emperor’s new clothes again.
After spending a week on my own, and being able to filter out all the everyday stuff that we’re constantly bombarded with, I think there’s a lot to be said for listening to the conscious mind.
In opposition to the ‘automatic brain’, ‘Mindfulness’ is the term used to describe paying attention to one’s resting physical state – for some reason they wanted to avoid the term ‘meditation’ as it sounded a bit ‘weird‘?!*
