Hack Yourself with Your Other Hand

Which hand do you use the most? You know... the one you use to open doors or to write, or to do that thing that.... yeah, that hand.

I have recently started working my way through How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness, and thus far it has been an adventure with some unexpected benefits which don't have anything to do with either mindfulness or being embarrassed when your mother walks in. They have to do with boosting creativity.

But first let me roll back a bit and

Hack Yourself with Scent

Ah the brain... you are my enemy! Just the other morning in fact, I was on my third pound of M & Ms and thinking to myself, 'this loosing weight thing just isn't working out like I planned.' So after a good 3 hour fist shaking harangue at the mirror punctuated by bites of velvety Belgian chocolate ice cream, I considered maybe I should put a little more thought into this mind/body war of wills.

Why is it that I can think something so vividly, imagine myself effortlessly extinguishing bad habits, conquering phobias, or blossoming into a charming social butterfly, yet