Our animal friends don’t move through life with the benefit of understanding what their life is. They just live in it. They just exist and do their animal thing. They haven’t studied eye cells to understand how they work; they just see and respond. They haven’t examined musculature; they just move. They don’t know how… Continue reading Animals or Scientists?
The medical establishment and weight loss orthodoxy for a hundred years has been that people lose weight when they burn more calories than they take in. That’s the only way to lose weight, and if you are trying and failing to lose weight, it is because you are eating too much and not active enough. … Continue reading Calories In/Calories Out is Bullsh!t
In one of my support groups, there are some brilliant and wise people having moments of pure genius. In the best meeting I’ve ever been to, a shining star said something that moved us all. To paraphrase, she said that we, as recovering addicts and alcoholics, have qualities that the post-COVID world will desperately need.… Continue reading Why the Post-COVID World Needs Addicts
This is one of my favorite meditations for feeling connected to vast webs of life, and even a spiritual connection to the very sun, moon, and planet we’re spinning around on. I first started thinking about this after hearing Jennifer Pearcy’s wonderful “Yoga Nidra for Sleep” meditation on Insight Timer. I recommend preparing with some… Continue reading Breathing with the Planet Meditation
The Overstory by Richard Powers is one of my favorite books. I’m borrowing a metaphor borrowed by the book. Say the planet is a body. The plants and trees and algae are the lungs, breathing for us all the time. The oceans and rivers and all the bodies of water are the circulatory system, keeping… Continue reading Humanity’s Big Fix
A Phil Collins meditation – cue drums! No, seriously, Phil Collins is the worst. There is so much going on in the simple air we breathe. This is a meditation on looking closer at what, at first, appears to be nothing.
“We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.” – Evangelista Torricelli There was a time before air. There was a time when what we saw around us between the ground and the sky was a void, comprised of absolutely nothing. We still kind of see things this way – in her wonderful… Continue reading The Science of Nothing
