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...
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. Stillness then would mean that something is moving...
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 said, I am going to show how they are good for you, and how you...
To see with the naked eye… That’s my goal. Meaning I want to be able to see accurately and clearly without prescription lenses. I currently wear contacts and glasses for distance (myopia, -5.0 both eyes) and reading (presbyopia +1.25...
From Dictionary.com: Differentiate 1. to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish. In medicine there is a concept of differential diagnosis. To treat a condition accurately, a diagnosis is made which determines a category for...