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Articles by Dan Sumner
A practical exercise in dealing with difficult emotions
When anger, bitterness or anxiety strike they often sneak past our cognitive defenses. Usually we find that before we’re even conscious of our emotional state, we have completely identified with that emotion. This is illustrated by our saying sentences in the form of ‘I am angry’, this self-identification quickly eliminates the potential of saying ‘there is anger’ or ‘anger is present’ and we rapidly identify wholly with the emotional state.
The Memory Palace Technique
The Memory Palace The memory palace/method of loci is a technique which has featured in a variety of television shows and books from Sherlock Holmes to Hannibal. In short the technique involves imagining some place one knows well and planting memories or things to be remembered along a predefined route within that location. The technique is used to perform astonishing acts of memory including memorisation of decks of cards to the recall of the years of wars.
The cost of depression: Art and Culture
Dan Sumner · Follow 2 min read · -- As is so unfortunately the case, the method of thinking about mental health in contemporary times, is to couch the cost of depression and other related mental health disorders in terms of GDP or the cost to a nation in terms of financial burden. However, through doing so we forget about the lost potential of the individual as they struggle to adapt to their depression in day to day life.
Restoring Edward ‘Snoozer’ Quinn to the Jazz Guitar Pantheon
Dave Radlauer is a six-time award-winning radio broadcaster presenting early Jazz since 1982. His vast JAZZ RHYTHM website is a compendium of early jazz history and photos with some 500 hours of exclusive music, broadcasts, interviews and audio rarities. Radlauer is focused on telling the story of San Francisco Bay Area Revival Jazz.
SIM - Terminate EP, by Nervous Horizon
Based in Montreal, SIM — influenced primarily by dancehall and artists like King Tubby and Sean Paul, as well as Plastikman, Jeff Mills and Equiknoxx— found his entry point into electronic music via the crunching US dubstep sounds of the late ‘00s, before later finding his niche in club music.
EMMANUELLE PARRENIN / DETLEF WEINRICH - Jours De Grève LP - [VERLP41], by EMMANUELLE PARRENIN / DETLEF WEINRICH
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album Includes unlimited streaming of EMMANUELLE PARRENIN / DETLEF WEINRICH - Jours De Grève LP - [VERLP41] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. shipping out on or around February 15, 2021 Purchasable with gift card €21 You own this Digital Album Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
La Casa del Volcán, by Koraal
/ Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card €9 Record/Vinyl + Digital Album Includes unlimited streaming of La Casa del Volcán via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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