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 …
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LCTPU, continued
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 …
Mundane Masochism
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 …
LCPTU (Little Crap That Piles Up)
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 …
Taking Steps
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. …
Non-Verbal Communication
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 …
A Clear Intention
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 …
Touch Education
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 …
Stillness and Balance
David Boehm, the brilliant Oxford physicist, defined stillness as “a special case of movement”. Boehm went on to explain that everything is always moving, at least on a quantum level. …
Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are scary, unpleasant and can be debilitating. The sense of terror, the thought of impending disaster, the self questioning all add up to a very trying experience. That …