In 2001, I became a parent. I was already a Buddhist and a meditator. But I didn’t understand how to integrate meditation into my daily life as a parent.

In both of my previous posts (TEAM CBT and Yan Shou Gong), I’ve mentioned “testing”. Testing is also an extremely important discipline in software engineering.

Since my teens, I have had an interest in the Martial Arts, and practiced Nanbudo for a few years back then.

Time for something of a flurry of backlogged posts. Here goes with the first… I have for some time been aware of the possibility of rapid change within humans.

In Prediction Error Minimisation theory, a key reason for the brain to work hard to avoid a prediction error, is because a prediction error is costly.

After reading about Prediction Error Minimisation in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s How Emotions are Made, I have been finding it explains more and more, and have been using it effectively in a range of therapeutic scenarios.