Anxiety: a mental tug of war to deal with it. Anxiety can be defined as the capacity to predict a negative outcome of an even X which does not exist yet. It is based on the fact that the human brain is biased- by default- towards negative outcomes x5 more than towards positive outcomes.  Anxiety […]

VR was discovered around 2,500 years ago by Zen Our mind produces around 120,000 thoughts/feelings every day.  There are 2 types of mental activities: our thinking mind, and dreaming mind.  Of course, cognitive, factual thinking is critical in our day-to-day activities for decisional analysis such as during work, but most of the time, our dreaming […]

   Training  mind, body, and heart while facing stress What I like about Zen is that it is practical as long you practice it diligently.  Stressors are everywhere, permanent, either acute i.e. loss of a loved one or chronic such as guilt They are defined as an event being perceived as out of our control. […]

The Breath as a Bridge Our bodies have both conscious and unconscious awareness, conscious and unconscious behavior, and conscious and unconscious minds. For instance, we can think, consciously, ‘I want to move my arm’, and then move our arm. We feel like we have agency and control over that. We also have unconscious behavior. For […]