I love the feel of the soft balmy winds of summer.  Whether you’re by the ocean or in the mountains, there is a kind of magic that wafts through the air, brushing up against your skin while riding freely on the backs of familiar fragrance — jasmine, jacarandas (if you’re in L. A.) and the fresh scent of pine (if you live in the Colorado Rockies) and of course, where ever you roam, who can forget the  scent of oily sun tan lotion!

Summer especially brings out the kid in all of us.  In the U.S. it calls up the “School’s out!” memory circuits with visions of freeze zone play in hot city parks or splashing around in summer camp swimming holes!  Summer’s the best time to refresh young and older brains with novel experiences!

What do you have planned this season?  An outdoor concert? A hike in the mountains with friends?  Designing your new sustainable garden?  (Music, exercise, community, visual art and design — all have been shown to enhance observational pattern recognition, connect thinking and feeling, and revvv up attention/memory skills!  Click here for reviews of relevant research.)

Here at Bodiesinspace.com we started off June with yours truly being asked to join two advisory boards: The Lifeboat Foundation and the Center for Conscious Creativity.  To say the least, I’m honored.  The two foundations, while seemingly at opposite ends of a continuum in terms of mission, actually meet up in the proverbial middle with a focus on generating creative and cultural relevant answers to tomorrow’s challenges, namely, how we each and collectively handle human/machine interface and the role media and somatic arts play in problem-solving.

Honda Research: Human Thought Controlled Robot, 2010

The human/machine theme was reiterated in recent Humanity+ and C3VisionLabs conferences where I had the opportunity to speak on new neurotech for stress reduction and opening the brainy portals of creativity.  (Did you see my tweets?)  Seems “representation” is the buzz word of the day, meaning, in what form — numbers? spikes? ribbons? fractals? — would you like your brain scans, your mathematical equation, your biofeedback or even your brain game entertainment delivered?  Translated into future product innovation, new forms of medical, scientific and “self-quantification” representation could expand the “readership” capability of neuro and biofeedback info, as well as spark new insights in a host of scientists and computational theorists working on complex algorithms governing brain games and immersive environs like the Allosphere or those produced by Vortex Immersion Media.

With this in mind, allow me to put out a call to all innovative programmers, cultural creatives and scientists reading this blog:  There is a need for more dialogue and collaboration between creative artists and scientists to develop vivid — all right I’ll say it — elegant, multi-sensory systems of representing data.  We are in an age of perpetual multi-media feed, training our modern brains to expect a “total theater” effect in learning, calculating and entertainment!  (Actually, if we follow Matthew May’s theory of design, I’d be perfectly satisfied with “elegant” neuro-tech and immersive tech design!)

All this futurist talk can dizzy the mind so I’ll leave you with a practical, here and now request:  If you find our brain fitness guide resonant with your intellectual and sustainable living values and value rich in navigating the world of healthy, creative, sustainable living and research, please reach into your heart and pocket and donate whatever you can to keep this site going.  We will do our better than best to honor your effort to support relevant and informed 21st ideas for sustainable living, learning and leadership!!!

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We at Bodiesinspace.com remain grateful for your readership – new and returning — and offer a toast to you:  May you enjoy a delightful, mind-expanding and brain rejuvenating summer!

Yours with neurons sparking and breath your way!

Doc Gee!

P.S.  As a site focused on the goal of spreading brain awareness and 21st century problem solving, we are heartsick over the BP spill.  Read the Green Beacon’s smart review of the eco crisis and find tips for bringing more green body awareness into your home and work life.