Whatever hurts, it could be better. Try these suggestions and see what improves. 1. Breathe. Paying attention to your breath can bring immediate relief. We tend to restrict our breathing …
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Neck Saver
Ever get a stiff neck when you’ve been at the computer, or driving, or just stressed? Here’s a pleasant way to get serious, lasting relief. After a few repetitions, it …
Fat
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 …
A Good Teacher
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 …
Sitting Comfortably: The Basic Version
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, …
The Pleasure Body 2
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. …
The Pleasure Body
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 …
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 …