Zerebria

…it is a great sentence to add to your mental hygiene morning routine. The other day I was practicing it, when something strange happened: I felt a sudden impulse of hugging myself and, when I did so, I had a vision of my whole body as the 6*10 to the 13th power cells that compose it. (more…)

A productivity technique I once tried was visualizing myself in a war scenario, (more…)

There is a beautiful, inspirational story in Peter Brook’s memories, ‘Threads of Time‘, about the need of listening to life’s patterns, its highs and lows, its silences which are also part of the music, it’s hidden messages. (more…)

I don’t usually do this, but the other day I stumbled upon this short and nice educational text about the brain, and it seems strangely adequate for a blog that is called Zerebria. (more…)

The law of attraction, as described in Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret’, affirms that we attract what we think of, so we must forge images of what we want, instead of continuously filling our mind with what is not, what should not be, what is a pity, etc. Apparently, the universe pretty much (more…)

0 – The hard way

The Law of Attraction, taken back to the popular scene by Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret‘, plainly states that whatever one thinks of, it will become a reality. It does not state it as (more…)

The really extro–verted ways of our human society oblige most of us, its members, to be kind of self-taught about how to deal with our inner worlds. There are increasing and very brave attempts of acknowledgement of such worlds, but for most of the people emotions, feelings and ‘all that stuff’ are regarded as a world of ‘ghosts’, and ghosts are (more…)

I don’t remember the exact details of the joke (maybe that’s why I’m so bad at telling jokes: details are always the most juicy part). It was something about a group of people who had all their jokes arranged in (more…)

It was a period of my life when I was suffering a lot. I had difficult personal issues at the office where I was working, a set of new and nasty human situations, to face which I lacked the least resources. All the time I spent there was a torture, (more…)

My faithful (or stoical ) Zerebria readers already have a notice of my love story with Konrad Lorenz’s Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins, documented here and here. The book, despite its age, is full of wow and aha moments, and, while reading it, (more…)