Living on Autopilot

Research shows that half the time, your mind is out in space.

Out To Lunch

Why you're checked-out half the day.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/are-you-auto-pilot/out-lunch

Shopping Without Thinking

Why you should take a list to the supermarket.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/are-you-autopilot/shopping-without-thinking

How GPS Eats Your Brain

Learning when to turn off the navigator.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/are-you-auto-pilot/is-gps-eating-your-brain

Is It Okay to Be Set in Your Ways?

Routines are good—as long as there's some spontaneity, too.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/life-automatic-pilot/is-it-bad-be-set-in-your-ways

Mindlessness and Memory Slips

If you don't encode, you can't retrieve.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/life-automatic-pilot/mindlessness-and-memory-slips-how-find-what-youve-lost

Stuck in Routines

Why it's hard to learn new tricks.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/are-you-auto-pilot/dont-drink-the-water

Dissociating is like watching your life from 50 feet off the ground

"I wasn't sure I wanted to stop dissociating."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/living-autopilot/dissociating-is-watching-your-life-50-feet-the-ground

To Lose the Weight, You Gotta Change How You Relate (to Food)
Why behavioral skills are the key to long-term weight loss
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/living-autopilot/lose-the-weight-you-gotta-change-how-you-relate-food

How to See the World Anew
Learn from Buddhists to see (and photograph) mindfully.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/living-autopilot/how-see-the-world-anew

Using your mind (and brain) to make healthier choices
Put on your thinking cap when you make food choices
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/living-autopilot/using-your-mind-and-brain-make-healthier-choices

Don’t Condemn Your Instincts
7 Reasons to Honor Your Autopilot
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/living-autopilot/don-t-condemn-your-instincts

The Wisdom of Wei Wu Wei: Letting Good Things Happen
Why too much effort can be self-defeating
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/living-autopilot/the-wisdom-wei-wu-wei-letting-good-things-happen

Think you can't be persuaded by ads you ignore? Think again.
When mindless persuasion trumps thoughtful deliberation
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/living-autopilot/think-you-cant-be-persuaded-ads-you-ignore-think-again

Time Flies When You're Older
Why life passes more quickly as we age.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/life-automatic-pilot/why-time-goes-faster-you-get-older

Be Here Now
How creativity jolts you back into the moment.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/life-automatic-pilot/be-here-now-mindfulness-and-the-creative-spirit

May I Have Your Attention?
On thinking and not thinking.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/are-you-auto-pilot/may-i-have-your-attention

The Complaint Choir
When it comes to our complaints, we're stuck on auto.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/life-automatic-pilot/what-complaints-choirs-tell-us-about-our-complaining-psychol