This week we have a guest author, my partner Ellen. Our weeks are spent discussing growth and learning stuff because that is our main shared interest. Ellen decided to write about some of our recent insights into how we process life. Black & White Thinking Black-and-white thinking originated in the brains of children. Yes, […]
Pain is something we are all familiar with. When something happens to our body that is immediately not good for it, we get these signals from the injured area called pain. Pain is there to warn us that we need to do something right now to prevent further injury. Furthermore, that particular pain will […]
One of the challenges everyone has to face from time to time is dealing with fear. I have written many articles on the impact of stress on the body and our health. I don’t know if I have written about how to deal with the most common cause of stress, fear. Many other causes […]
As I am writing this, I am celebrating my 69th birthday. Today felt like a good time to solidify my thoughts on love. I have avoided using the word love in my writings or conversations for a long time. It has always seemed like the word only invites confusion as everyone seems to have a […]
Someone asked me this question the other day, “How does one go about feeling?” This may seem like a silly question to the average person, but the person asking me this understood that I distinguish between feelings and emotions. They may seem similar, but I use the words to describe two very different states of consciousness. Most […]
I was cruising the internet the other day (not a novel experience) when I came across what appeared to be an alarming announcement. The statement was that it is expected that by the time this covid 19 has run its course, some 9 million people will have died from this bug worldwide. This sounds like […]
I read a fascinating article this morning about autonomic dysregulation as a consequence of wearing masks during this Covid 19 lockdown. What does that mean? Our autonomic nervous system controls 98% of everything that goes on in our body – just about everything except conscious movement and speech. It handles everything so we don’t have […]
Take a deep breath in and just hold it in a relaxed manner for a while. What makes you want to exhale? Now try the opposite, exhale all the way and just hold that state at rest for a bit. What makes you want to inhale? I don’t find any thinking involved, just a strong […]
In contemplating the nature of motivation a bit of “big view” inspiration floated in the other day. I think the inspiration was triggered by a conversation I had with Ellen the day before about unconditional love. The desire for unconditional love seems to be a core motivator for lots of people. What floated in was […]
One of my patients asked me to write an article about the current coronavirus pandemic. I replied that this was such a new virus out in the public that I had no information about this critter. All the research has been done in top secret Biolabs, which don’t publish their findings. The commercial press has […]