“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Werner Heisenberg, physicist, and author of the uncertainty principle. An “Umwelt” is the perceptual world …
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“You don’t owe your identity anything.” Jenn Stauffler We all adopt an identity. It exists partly independent of us, as a social construct. Other people help form it. We …
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Fussing with our posture can get obsessive. It becomes another excuse for beating up ourselves. There is a time for attention toward …
“Anxiety: Women Nearly Twice as Likely as Men to Have Anxiety, Study Shows” Researchers from Cambridge University reviewed 48 studies on anxiety disorders and determined that for every 1.9 females, …
I take some of my somatic principles from psychology. The struggles in the bodymind are mirrored by the social challenges we all face. Body parts and systems interact in ways …
Why do people read to confirm their existing reality, rather than to get new perspectives? Why do we all hear more of what we agree with, and drop challenging details …
“Stability increases the feeling of safety. Instability means risk but easy mobility. Both are biologically important. Becoming addicted to one of them makes one unsafe for lack of choice.” Moshe …
“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.” Japanese author Shusaku Endo spent a lot of time around doctors and nurses. Before publishing his award-winning work of historical fiction, Silence, he …
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Nobel prize winning novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, he tells of a priest who levitates every time he drinks hot chocolate. The author said once …
Love is scary. Love challenges our identity. These statements are true in a sense, but not all the time in all ways. Our culture has a lot of sad, angry, …
