“Next Positive Action” Zoom-Out
When ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)’ arise, focus on what you can control Q. What ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts’ are arising and
When ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)’ arise, focus on what you can control Q. What ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts’ are arising and
This Zoom-Out involves stepping back in time and looking forward to the present moment, your current situation, and considering how
In Zoomology and as Zoomologists we speak of finding the most helpful perspective. Of seeking out the most helpful perspective in
Free will has endured a long run of, well, freedom. Could that time be at an end? Yet again, free
One of the things I really enjoy about exploring and researching Zoom-Out is how it crosses multiple schools of thought
Continue readingEinstein’s profoundly useful insight on reality versus experience
UNFINISHED Life often demands that we give our attention to unpleasant things. Like smoke that contaminates the air we breathe,
This ancient parable of the blind men and an elephant is pure Zoom-Out. There have been subtle variations of the parable over
To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of
“This Is Water” is pure Zoom-Out. It is the title given to a commencement speech (and later a derived written publication)
Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) on art as Zoom-Out: “[Art] unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of
What is the single greatest source of missed opportunity, frustration, anxiety and stress? Here, we explore this through the power
Self-Pity I never saw a wild thingsorry for itself.A small bird will drop frozen dead from a boughwithout ever having
As humans we are endowed with an incredible power. One that we all too often take for granted. The power itself
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details
Metaphors help us to make sense of the world. Metaphors are also useful thinking and communication tools which we can
Here in the UK summer is in the air and the buzz of wasps is often heard. In life, metaphorical
I’m a big fan of David Rock and his passion for understating how the brain works in order to help us make