Diet. It is a hot topic, a wild arena of conflicting forces, and a necessary part of life. We must eat. We make choices. We succeed much more than we realize. The proof is that we are still here. Whatever you’ve been eating… it works...
Bad teachers use punishment. They shout, they overload their students, they humiliate and shame students who don’t thrive under their ineffective teaching. Been there, done that, failed. I recently worked with a good teacher. She had spent her...
We sit. We sit a lot! I doubt any other culture has ever sat nearly as much as we do now. To make a white collar living, to be educated, to function in this society (drive, bike, eat), we need to sit. Well actually, we might not need to, but we...
Pain causes contraction. All organisms shrink from pain. Contraction prevents full engagement with the environment. This constraint diminishes our perceptions. What we cannot turn to look at, we cannot see. An awareness of pleasure broadens our...
Pain is attractive. Pain is delicious. Pain is important. Pain is sexy. Hmmm… Eckart Tolle has written about the pain body. We create a self-image of pain to which we attach our experiences. We use it to organize our reality. By remembering...
LCTPU= Little Crap That Piles Up. In the 1980s, a musician named Jesse Winchester owned a home recording studio. In it, he had over $25,000 worth of equipment. As the studio aged, the sound decayed. The recording quality he was getting was no...
We all are familiar with masochism, especially the mass media conceptualization of whips and chains and leather garments. Kinky, perhaps glamorous, it is for most both odd and fascinating. Much less glamorous is mundane masochism- the small...
Most of what we view as the inevitable decay of our own bodies is not really inevitable nor is it irreversible. We could call it accumulated micro-trauma (AMT), but let’s just say it is Little Crap That Piles Up (LCTPU). Where does LCPTU...
I like to walk. It clears my head. An urban amble, or a trail hike, both are restorative in their own ways. Walking is a series of steps, taken consecutively. It’s a way to get somewhere. It is a way to leave somewhere. It can be a shared...
There’s a popular saying,’Ninety percent of communication is non-verbal.” And most times I’ve heard it repeated, the focus quickly shifts back to the verbal portion. Why would we focus on only ten percent if we really want...
Free will means choice. To make a choice, I must have an idea in mind, an intention. If that intention is vague, muddled or conflicted, I will be ineffective. I will end up frustrated and hurting. This necessity for a clear intention shows in our...
There is a potential revolution in every touch. Understandably feared by the hierarchy, touch is wild. A staggering amount of information is exchanged, for we both give and receive when we touch. The traditional response of vested power has been...