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Jun.18.2012
Mind is Skin
Made of skin, mind thinks like skin. It is a fact of human embryonic development that CNS [Central Nervous System], the seat of human intelligence, begins as nothing more than involution (envagination) of ectoderm. The ectoderm enfolds onto itself (through a...
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Apr.01.2012
Sometimes clients I work with just don't want to quit smoking. Or they are not yet ready to quit. That's common and normal. But they always seem to be ready to cut back a bit, mostly for health reasons. This kind of cutting back or harm reduction makes sense. It’s a...
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Dec.23.2011
From Jane Eyre to Anne Tyler to Doris Lessing, reinvention is a much-discussed theme in women’s literature and women’s lives. The New Year is a particularly appropriate time to discuss creating a new you—Leslie Davenport’s 10-minute meditation might be a great place to start—or making realistic,...
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Mar.29.2010
Poem (by Charlene Balcom, Reflections/Shadows on the Shoji/Hokuseido Press, 1936):
As you reached into the lotus pond,
I saw the reflection
Of a young willow
Trailing slender branches
In the water.
Poetic Interpretation:
Lotus pond is post-Narcissism, it reflects no ego: when you look into the...
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Mar.22.2010
As a preface, let me note in advance, that this reading does not conform to most expectations. It will seem at times tangential and pointless but, I assure you, it builds a network of semantic associations that is designed to serve as a supportive net of words. Mind is only as healthy as the words...
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Feb.12.2010
Knowing how to forgive is an essential, if not the essential skill of love. On that note, in continuation of the 360 Degrees of Compassion series, I'd like to offer you an example of betrayal and forgiveness, from Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's famous dystopian novel.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is...
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Feb.07.2010
1.As a competitive swimmer of the river of consciousnessI never understood the idea of a false start.What do you mean I have to wait to compete?!2.But now that I don’t compete I get it:I have to synchronize firstBefore I competitively get out of synch.3.Here’s what I like about team sports:You got...
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Feb.05.2010
Pattern Interruption Hall of Fame: people that wake us up from monotony of mindlessness. These are iconoclasts, straight-shooters, rascal sages, and eccentric oddballs of all walks of mind - i.e. the denizens of the brave new world of self-aware unorthodoxy.
Michael Moore has tons of pattern...
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Feb.05.2010
Un-speakthe domino effect of your wordsback to the Original Silence of Metacognition*. To a momentbefore your Mindcreated the word “mind.”
*Metacognition is cognition about cognition, thinking about thinking, thinking in reverse, so to say, from thought to thinker.
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Eating Meditation...
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Jan.28.2010
1.We confuse perfection with imperfectionBut there is no differenceUnless, of course, you compare what is with what isn’t.2.If I could be right this very moment better, worse or other than what I am right nowI wouldn’t be myself.But I am, perfectly imperfect.3.And so are you!4.It is always like...
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