MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'elephant'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:35:27 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130817&cid=t_252782_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F14%2F2-must-try-mindfulness-practices%2F “Just as an untamed elephant can do damage, trampling crops and injuring people, so the untamed, capricious mind can cause harm to us and those around us.” So writes Jan Chozen Bays, M.D., a physician and Zen teacher, in her book How to Train a Wild Elephant & Other Adventures in Mindfulness: Simple Daily Mindfulness Practices for Living Life More Fully & Joyfully. How often have you let negative thoughts run your life? Let a punitive perspective take over so you end up beating yourself up for the smallest of supposed offenses? Or just experienced the days like you’re listing through a boring book, going through the motions but skimming the significant stuff? Something that can help is mindfulness. According to Chozen Bays, “Mindfulness unifies our body, heart and mind, br... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130817 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:02:49 +0100 5130817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4771210&cid=t_252782_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F30%2F8-ways-to-make-technology-less-stressful%2F Photo credit: Summer Beretsky Whatever you do, DO NOT think of an elephant right now! Seriously. Don’t think about elephants, or big floppy elephant ears, or elephants at circuses, or elephants in the wild. Now, be honest: you totally just thought of an elephant. Didn’t you? That’s exactly how I felt all week when I tried to stay away from the internet. When I opted to spend a week away from the internet and other technological devices, I expected my brief affair with the IRL (“in real life”) world to whisk me away into romantic oblivion. Sadly, that was not the case. Instead, I spent a lot of offline time thinking about the technology that I was sorely missing…and about the stress it invites into my life. The constantly-updating Twitter feeds, the myri... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4771210 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:48:26 +0100 4771210 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4545267&cid=t_252782_180_f&fid=38604&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmakeitgreat%2F%7E3%2FtG1vSYBKN1o%2F One of the most interesting books I’ve read so far in 2011 is Surviving Your Serengeti by Stefan Swanepoel. The book was interesting for the simple metaphor of the African Serengeti and your personal AND business life. Not to mention there is a super cool quiz you can take to find out what YOUR animal is. You can go all the way to the end of this interview if you want to just take the quiz. Phil: Tell me about the inspiration for the book. Stefan: When solving problems, sharing experiences or clarifying situations, I often find myself using metaphor. I believe sketching complex situations into fun parables allows people to understand and remember easier. I am a storyteller at heart, so when I decided to expand my technical writing beyond my current portfolio of books about trends, change... Phil Gerbyshak blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4545267 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:30:00 +0100 4545267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4545010&cid=t_252782_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F03%2Fcultivating-creativity-every-day%2F On June 4, 2007 artist Noah Scalin created a skull on his blog and promised to create a different skull every day for a year. He did. He created a variety of skulls: everything from his first orange paper skull to a flower skull to a PB&J skull to a skull made out of pennies. That’s 365 skulls and counting. (He continues the project today with submissions from readers.) His daily project inspired the book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! In it, Scalin encourages readers to create their own year-long project. He shares one suggestion each day to help spark readers’ imaginations. He writes that “a daily project is a personal journey that can offer you a rare opportunity for self-discovery and personal growth with tangible results�... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4545010 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:35:58 +0100 4545010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3994019&cid=t_252782_109_f&fid=34786&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrmichelletempest.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F09%2Felephant-illusion.html How many legs does this elephant have? (Source: The Psychiatrist Blog) The Psychiatrist Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3994019 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:58:00 +0100 3994019 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3244040&cid=t_252782_150_f&fid=34768&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmagossip.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Flolpharma-contd_05.html Story (Source: PharmaGossip) PharmaGossip blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3244040 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:18:00 +0100 3244040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645275&cid=t_252782_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FdSUdUYuYpCw%2F The Bush administration has many legacies.  One is the more than $700 million U.S. embassy, set on 104 acres, only slightly smaller than the Vatican’s land holdings, in Baghdad.  It was an embassy designed for an imperial power intent on ruling a puppet state. It turns out that Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki doesn’t plan on being anyone’s puppet.  U.S. troops have come out of the cities and will be coming home in coming months.  Provincial reconstruction teams also will be leaving.  The Bush administration’s plan for maintaining scores of bases for use in attacking Iran or other troublesome Middle Eastern states is stillborn.  And Prime Minister Maliki isn’t likely to ask for Washington’s advice on what kind of society U.S. offi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645275 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:30:58 +0100 2645275 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2390192&cid=t_252782_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Ftoil-and-trouble.html We return from school in full metldown mode following another stressful bout of STAR testing. With homework awaiting us as well as any number of chores to be completed in a tight three hours I see trouble ahead. I am behind with just about everything as efficiency standards have dropped quite markedly of late. Once inside I cannot decide where to start but luckily someone prompts me.“I am "cook.”“Are you? Well it is nearly 90. I don’t mind if you want to take your shirt off dear.”“No!”“No?”“No ……I am be cook today.”“What are you cook? Er…..I mean……..you want to cook something?”“Yes.”“Really?" To be honest I am not keen as a hot pulsating oven is the very last thing we need at the moment. That said, some opportunities are too good to miss. "What do ... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2390192 Thu, 07 May 2009 06:36:00 +0100 2390192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1894936&cid=t_252782_150_f&fid=34768&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmagossip.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F10%2Ftgn1412-informed-consent.html Back stories here.New research presented today shows that the information given to the volunteers of the disastrous Northwick Park “Elephant Man” trial would not have passed a ‘readability’ test. The research, presented at the international meeting of the Drug Information Association today, highlights an immediate need for all information provided to volunteers in clinical trials to be ‘User Tested’ before future trial protocols can be approved.The University of Leeds commissioned Luto Research (Leeds University Testing Organisation) to undertake the User Testing component of the presented research, which highlighted that members of the public took up to an hour to find all of the answers to questions about key facts in the volunteer information provided – and with six of the... PharmaGossip blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1894936 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:33:00 +0100 1894936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526948&cid=t_252782_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F17%2Fjonathan-haidt-on-the-situation-of-moral-reasoning%2F We recently published a post called the “Moral Psychology Primer,” which briefly highlighted the emerging work of several prominent moral psychologists, including Professor Jonathan Haidt from UVA. Haidt’s important work is relevant to law, morality, and positive psychology – all topics of interest to The Situationist. We thought it made sense, therefore, to follow up the primer with some choice excerpts from Jon Haidt’s terrific book, The Happiness Hypothesis. (We are grateful to Professor Haidt for his assistance in selecting some of these excerpts.) * * * I first rode a horse in 1991, in Great Smoky National Park, North Carolina. I’d been on rides as a child where some teenager led the horse by a short rope, but this was the first time it was just me and a ho... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526948 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:08:28 +0100 1526948