by Stuart Shanker | Jan 15, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog
Mine was a family in which the fifth commandment played out every single Sunday. My parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins would all gather in my Grandmother’s kitchen to eat, argue, joke and gossip. She ruled over her extended family with gentle humour and a constant...
by Stuart Shanker | Jan 3, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog
In Houseboat Chronicles, Jake MacDonald describes how, back in the early 1960s, his sixth-grade class was made to listen to Miss Roma Harpell on the radio, taking them on an imaginative journey intended to get them calmly focused and alert: Now children, put your...
by Stuart Shanker | Dec 21, 2015 | Self-Reg Blog
In the last blog, we looked at how the classical view of “self-control” is the perfect example of what Ellen Langer had in mind when she wrote about “mindlessness.” Sadly, it’s an example that has done untold harm to an untold number of children; blinders can be a...
by Stuart Shanker | Dec 14, 2015 | Self-Reg Blog
Mindfulness for Me My own preferred way of self-regulating is running through the woods. I experience what Allan Sillitoe described in his classic short story ‘The loneliness of the long-distance runner’ (and maybe I was influenced to some extent by the film version...
by Stuart Shanker | Dec 10, 2015 | Self-Reg Blog
What is Mindfulness? Well… What Do Others Think It Is? Our idea for this blog series was to respond to questions coming from our online communities; and no question has been asked more often than to clarify the Self-Reg view of mindfulness. Understandably,...
