Word: detaching
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...what Phil Jackson preaches: to learn to be totally aware of the moment. "Meditation is like gasoline," says Robert Thurman, director of the Tibet House (and father of actress Uma Thurman). "In Asia meditation was a sort of a natural tool anyone could use. We should detach it from just being Buddhist...
...assurance. Advice from fellow aislephobes includes downing copious quantities of champagne, gazing purposefully into your intended's eyes?it almost worked for Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride?and just "getting over it." There's even a board devoted to "Wedding Withdrawal" for those who find it difficult to detach from the dream. A one-stop resource for prenuptial couples, there's information on everything from choosing the champagne to changing your name...
Luckily, rich people have come to the plight of writers. Writers’ colonies have sprouted up around the country, where writers can come to live and work in a calm environment in Bumtruck, USA. The New York City Public Library helps urbanite procrastinators detach from their e-mail through three programs that allow writers to work in special rooms within the library, two of which carry sizeable stipends. (And you thought all those corridors corded off from the public were holding books, not procrastinators...
...have to remember to detach myself a little bit because I get so caught up in the words,” Dorvil said...
...gravity for hours on end. My mind found itself wandering down well-worn, if paranoiac paths, imagining images of small pebbles and pigeons being sucked into the intake of the engine directly outside my window and my horror at seeing the entire wing of our plane shudder and detach, tumbling end-over-end, destroying the beautiful and necessary symmetry of the airfoil at 29,000 feet...