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Nicole
May 18, 2018
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Making Boundless Space and Taking Back our Minds

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https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep407-making-boundless-space-and-taking-back-our-minds.m4a Making Boundless Space and Taking Back our Minds Technology is incontrovertibly persuasive – intentionally so. Mobile applications have fine-tuned – ever perfecting – the classic incentive-reward feedback loop that classically entraps addictive behaviors. The neuropathways are created and then sealed by the neurochemicals that promote a sense of pleasure. It is like providing the…

Nicole
May 12, 2018
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The Mother Gene? (not to be confused with mom jeans)

The Mother Gene? (not to be confused with mom jeans) https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/mothers-day-coffee.jpg 1280 960 Nicole Nicole https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/59c708336b44c55aa93e8059ae098e96?s=96&d=monsterid&r=pg May 12, 2018 May 12, 2018

https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep406-The-Mother-Gene.m4a The Mother Gene? (not to be confused with mom jeans) My daughter and I recently submitted a vial of our saliva to the ancestry and health research site, 23andme.com. I’ve learned quite a bit about genetics since beginning this project, such as the role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is present in all human…

Nicole
April 28, 2018
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This Is We

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https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep405-This-Is-We.m4a Last weekend, my sister-in-law, Rachel, suggested we watch The Greatest Showman. And how grateful I am she did! The film is not a documentary about the life of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the founder of what became the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. It is however, a wonderful story loosely based on P.T.…

Nicole
April 14, 2018
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I Am Clark

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https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep404-i-am-by-clark-snyder.m4a I Am: Mindful Poetry My youngest son, Clark, who is 12 years old at the time of this recording, was given the task of writing a poem for his 7th grade language arts class. Each of three stanzas repeat the opening line that begins, “I am . . .” each student to follow with…

Nicole
April 6, 2018
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Freedom’s Protest

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https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep403-Freedoms-Protest.m4a Freedom is a nebulous concept, vague and imprecise, yet for all its deftness to evade definition, we (and N American’s in particular) assert our right to wholesale freedoms. Freedom protests. This week begins Eastertide, the liturgical season that ponders and lives into the resurrection of Jesus. This week also marks the 50th anniversary of…

Nicole
March 9, 2018
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The Black Panther’s True Power

The Black Panther’s True Power https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/true-power.jpg 1238 1238 Nicole Nicole https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/59c708336b44c55aa93e8059ae098e96?s=96&d=monsterid&r=pg March 9, 2018 March 9, 2018

https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep402-The-Black-Panthers-True-Power.m4a The Black Panther’s True Power “True power exists when you can’t tell where it comes from,” Chadwick Boseman, actor, the Black Panther. In sociological terms, this kind of power is referred to as “soft” power. It does not seek to dominate or crush; nor does it require obeisance or affirmations of its power. It…

Nicole
March 2, 2018
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Photography: Mindful Memory Making

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https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep401-photography-mindful-memory-making.m4a Photography: Mindful Memory Making When our first daughter was a baby we accumulated a few child-oriented cassette tapes (do you remember those?), one of which is a collection of Disney tunes that includes the song, “Makin’ Memories.” “Long before the old model T, ‘round about the turn of the century (the last one,…

Nicole
February 24, 2018
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Brain-Mind and Holy Indifference

Brain-Mind and Holy Indifference https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ordinary-time.jpg 2535 1925 Nicole Nicole https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/59c708336b44c55aa93e8059ae098e96?s=96&d=monsterid&r=pg February 24, 2018 March 9, 2018

https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep310-brain-mind.m4a I began this podcast with a 10-day mindfulness challenge. I thought the start of Lent a fitting time to return to it. I encourage you consider using these 10 episodes to begin or renew a habit of mindfulness practice for your Lenten season intention. You might think that a podcast about mindfulness might begin…

Nicole
February 23, 2018
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Meditation in Traffic

Meditation in Traffic https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/traffic-1-scaled.jpg 2560 2047 Nicole Nicole https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/59c708336b44c55aa93e8059ae098e96?s=96&d=monsterid&r=pg February 23, 2018 March 9, 2018

https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep309-traffic.m4a I began this podcast with a 10-day mindfulness challenge. I thought the start of Lent a fitting time to return to it. I encourage you consider using these 10 episodes to begin or renew a habit of mindfulness practice for your Lenten season intention. Traffic: We live in the Chicago area. Driving is not…

Nicole
February 22, 2018
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Body Scan

Body Scan https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/at-the-pace-of-grace.jpg 1528 2253 Nicole Nicole https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/59c708336b44c55aa93e8059ae098e96?s=96&d=monsterid&r=pg February 22, 2018 March 9, 2018

https://eirenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/ep308-body-scan.m4a I began this podcast with a 10-day mindfulness challenge. I thought the start of Lent a fitting time to return to it. I encourage you consider using these 10 episodes to begin or renew a habit of mindfulness practice for your Lenten season intention. Our bodies are complicated terrain. Most of us have a…

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