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I've used a 6 minute interval timer for a a few years along with magic dots (see the book Elementary Data Analysis for details) to improve my ability to focus on a task for a long time. It isn't mindfulness, it's psychology - quasi-reinforcement - understanding how the human brain responds to stimulus. The idea came from a psychology professor doing real research in this area. http://blog.sethroberts.net/20...

Yes mindfulness is sprititual terminology loaded on top of run-of-the-mill mental tricks to stay focused and complete tasks.

The breath app sounds like an interval timer to me. I used to use the Orztek timer, which turned into the Hourglass app that's currently available. Doing it on a watch doesn't make it new or original. I really want it running on the machine into which my headphones are plugged in, so I hear the beep and take a second to do the interval task that has been shown to cause the quasi-reinforcement effect to happen.

Another Nobel Prize for something that could be useful.

http://blog.sethroberts.net/20...

He's a Professor of Psychology who is a strong proponent of personal science. He is also the creator of the Shangri La Diet.

http://blog.sethroberts.net/

Furthermore, there's a growing body of evidence that hormesis is vital for health and so a low level of exposure to radiation (ionizing and non ionizing), toxins and harmful biological entities in the environment is a good thing that promotes health.

Some fun links because I'm too lazy to find proper citations on a Saturday morning..
http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/04/01/moderate-alcohol-consumption-associated-with-less-cirrhosis/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller12.html
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/tiny-amounts-of-ethanol-dramatically-221986.aspx
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/20/low-dose-radiation/

In regards to warming trend over the past 15 years, and how well models predicted it:

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2011/09/08/more-evidence-that-models-continue-to-show-too-much-recent-warming/

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2011/09/06/new-paper-models-continue-to-show-too-much-recent-warming/

http://blog.sethroberts.net/2011/03/04/climate-model-predictions-and-what-happened/

http://www.c3headlines.com/predictionsforecasts/

We can determine the sum of the natural forcings without knowing each individual one. If you have 85 cents, you don't need to know how many dimes you have to know if you can buy a candy bar.

You're missing the analogy. In order to find out how many pennies you have (man made forcings) and non-pennies you have (nickels, dimes and quarters) to make up your 85 cents, it doesn't *matter* what a candy bar costs - you need to be able to differentiate between the pennies and non-pennies.

You've made the assertion that you know, with absolute certainty, the ratio of non-natural forcing to natural forcings. Now play the science game and specify what observations would falsify your hypothesis.

Check out the Shangri-La Diet, at sethroberts.net. Trick yourself into being less hungry.

Easy to try, and it's worked for me, as well as a heck of a lot of people on their forums.

You don't need the book, it's more an explanation of why it works. Just get some extra-light olive oil and start by taking a tablespoon in the middle of a 2-hour taste-free window (no gum, no toothpaste, no cigs, no food, no soda).

FAQ post at forums: http://boards.sethroberts.net/index.php?topic=3398.0

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the Shangri-La diet.
http://www.sethroberts.net/