They need an advocate. I, too, like to mind my own business, but here we are in my business-minding column and I’m declaring temporary absolution. You were invited in. Moreover, this isn’t ...

Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading ... better understand mind blanking by parsing through 80 relevant research articles — including some of our own in which we recorded ...

On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers compile what we know about mind blanking, including insights from their own work observing people's brain activity. Mind blanking is a common experience with a ...

Social media became a place of both solace and torment. How much was mine to share? Credit... Supported by By Amanda Hess I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant.

I’ve never had to shop for such a hyperspecific event — like my own wedding — before and have thus started to use my newfound vintage-bridal sleuthing to find and buy investment pieces to ...

They need an advocate. I, too, like to mind my own business, but here we are in my business-minding column and I’m declaring temporary absolution. You were invited in. Moreover, this isn’t ...

The joke is that I was once heartbroken enough to invent my own apocalypse ... that I adopted a basic “it could always be worse” mind-set. I mean that, through an endless cycle of breakage ...

That’s the definition of mind blanking, which is also sometimes defined as an absence of thoughts or an absence of awareness. Indeed, though we’ve all experienced these blips in our own thinking, mind ...

In just 5–10 minutes, the mind usually begins to drift, naturally and softly. No need to resist thoughts or force calm — this process allows rest to arrive on its own. There’s no pressure to ...

This is called role engulfment, when one part of the self takes over the rest (Ashforth & Kreiner, 1999). It’s the reason why ...