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Our attention spans aren’t what they used to be. Technology and social media have literally re-wired our brains and made it more difficult to focus on any given task. We also have more entertainment options than ever before, which can play tricks on our dopamine...

Attentiveness is not limited to just one sense. You can probably remember a time, maybe all the way back in elementary school days, when you were told to “pay attention,” so you consciously perked up your ears or fixed your gaze on whatever it was you needed to focus...

Our perceptions of the world are clouded by bias. Whether conscious or (more likely) subconscious, we make associations with each moment, person and location we interact with on a daily basis. A bad memory here, an unfounded assumption there, and we can often stress...

The sports training montage is one of the great tropes in movies and TV: the athlete, often alone, shooting three pointers until sunrise, swimming laps to the point of exhaustion, doing pull-ups until hands bleed. Sports take a physical toll on the body, but athletes...

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who believes that life doesn’t start until after coffee, you know how caffeine can put your mind and body in overdrive. Like any stimulant, caffeine can in fact make you more productive on the surface, which is what often...

Have you ever gone for a run and fixed your gaze at the horizon ahead of you, not even thinking about the movement of your body? Have you lost track of the hours as day turned into night while engrossed in painting, writing or building something? Have you ever...

What do companies like Apple, Google, Nike and Disney all have in common? They consistently push creativity to new boundaries with each idea. But that’s not the only trait these innovators share – they’re also pioneers in the promotion of employee meditation and...

As we’ve discovered in previous posts, meditation is uniquely able to strengthen the communication between our brain’s so-called “relaxation stations.” Focused breathing and body scanning help to quiet the parts of the brain that tend to analyze situations from a...

Your brain spends every waking moment interpreting stimuli and giving your body directions on how to deal with them. That’s an attempt at the most basic explanation for the incredibly complex systems and functions housed within the organ responsible for life as we...

We’ve said it before here at Current: we believe a 25-minute meditation is the sweet spot for feeling relaxed in the moment and building mental fitness for the future. We also believe guided meditation classes like the ones we offer are designed to be much more than...