I’ve written before about the distinction between a formula and a framework. As I begin this piece I’d like to reiterate that distinction lest what follows be misconstrued. In the former the individual blurs into the anonymity provided by the placeholder of the variable. Although any individual could find its…

In the previous piece I mentioned that traversing the neurotic pattern is characterized by an ability to rest when one is tired. That isn’t all that’s involved, but it’s a good indicator of a person who is actually looking after his or her needs. So what do you do when…

“Love can only survive if wisdom has an effective voice.” - Gregory Bateson, Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art Society requires walls. Since the dawn of civilization, walls have been used to demarcate boundaries and establish propriety (not a misspelling of “property,” which is also established through walls). What…

The body provides us an incredible means to make sense of our lives. It seems to me that the surest way into this capacity is through a sense of phenomenological awareness, experiencing the body as it is rather than as our theories dress it up to be. Perhaps I can…

It’s a truism within the world as it seems to us to be that nothing comes of nothing. We know well enough the matter is neither created nor destroyed. It is transformed. Likewise with energy. We see this reflected in the ecological idea that there’s no such thing as a…

There’s little that’s more frustrating than an inability to change what we’re doing despite best intentions. Quite often it’s as if — rather than doing — we are done through. There’s a name for that of course. Technically speaking, it’s called neurotic. Lest anybody take offense at that, bear in…

Elsewhere I’ve written about the mistake of applying cause-and-effect thinking to complex systems in general — and to the body in particular. It’s a pernicious trap of thinking, one that can lead to a lot of needless suffering and confusion. Unfortunately it’s also the default mode of Western epistemology (in…

I begin here with the understanding that what you are now is constituted of your past experiences, trillions of cells shaped by countless choices made — consciously or not — over the course of your life. You’ve developed into a certain sort of person who thinks, feels, and does certain…

Although it’s rarely defined, there is an ideal for human movement. It’s frankly baffling to consider the myriad modalities that have developed over the years, each of which claims to improve movement. None of these myriad disciplines can seem to agree on a definition of the ideal towards which they…