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Mindfulness in sports

I spent the final year delivering online classes to students of sport psychology, philosophical leadership, critical thinking, and mindfulness in … More

Attention, concentration, critical thinking, flow, mental strength, mindfulness, mindfulness in sports, mindgame, Philosophical Leadership, sport psychology

As equals

Somewhere, I read that Black Lives Matter (BLM) is all about love. I like that. I think it’s true—all kinds … More

BLM, change management, How to be an antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, Iris Murdoch, love, Love as a political concept, mindfulness, Søren Kierkegaard, Simone Weil

Freedom is the element of love

Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and the so-called “father of existentialism” was born today, May 5 in 1813. To celebrate, … More

Byung-Chul Han, existentialism, Kierkegaard, love, love all people as equals, mindfulness, politics of love, Power, racism, sexism, Works of Love

Meditation – i svære tider

Coronakrisen har begrænset menneskers muligheder for at mødes fysisk, hvilket har nødvendiggjort andre måder, hvorpå vi kan nå – og … More

bjerg meditation, coronakrise, meditation, mindfulness, svære tider

Doing Nothing

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I can’t be sure.”  These are the opening lines of Albert Camus’s novel The Stranger. … More

Bergson, Camus, community spirit, coronavirus, existentialism, Iris Murdoch, mindfulness, social mindedness, The Stranger, time

Things Should Not Return to Normal

Spain—the country closed down two weeks ago—Friday, March 13, to be exact. As an uninvited ‘guest,’ the Coronavirus invites all … More

community spirit, compassion, coronavirus, Ethical Demand, freedom, Løgstrup, mindfulness, obligation, responsibility, social mindedness, trust

Efter 14 dages husarrest …

Jeg forudser, at de fleste i løbet af de næste 14 dage vil opleve udgangsforbuddet medføre en frigørende klarhed om … More

alene, coronavirus, Finn Janning, frihed, mindfulness, Murdoch, Opmærksomhed, Weil

A mindful philosophy

“The artist is a seer, a becomer,” wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychiatrist Félix Guattari in their book, What … More

Attention, Deleuze, fiction writing, meditation, mindful philosophy, mindfulness, What Is Philosophy

Tolstoy & marshmallows

In Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the main character’s mind tends to wander in both time and space. “In … More

a happy death, Leo Tolstoy, life worth living, Marshmallow Experiment, mindfulness, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Walter Mischel

Is this the right way?

Late one August evening in a small provincial town, a woman steps out her front door. In her hand, she … More

Abramović, Art, Buddhism, creative nonfiction, Deleuze, Freud, Guattari, identity politics, lost, mindfulness, Philosophy, practical philosophy, uncanny

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BIO

Finn Janning, PhD, is a writer and a philosopher.

His work has been featured in Epiphany, Under the Gum Tree, Philosophy Now, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, among other publications. His most recent books are Opmærksomhedens filosofi, Stakkels Jim and A Philosophy of Mindfulness.

To Love Slowly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAbgWLV1bc&t=184s

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