There are a lot of things that are normal, but not natural.Living in your head is pretty normal. But it’s not natural.Feeling caught up in habits is normal, but not natural.Anxiety and depression are sadly normal, but they aren’t natural (feelings are natural–chronic anxiety and depression are not)Focusing outward at the physical world, outward at
Do we “make” decisions? Or is it possible that we realize them? That instead of us being the doer behind a decision, what’s really happening is we’re catching a glimpse of what’s always already available to us beyond the curtain of thought?I’ll discuss some decisions I once felt like I “made”, but now I wonder
I had a series of massive insights when I was 16 years old. Shortly thereafter, my familiar, habitual thinking slowly came back, masking what I had seen. This happens, but I didn’t know it at the time. I spent a good part of the next 20 years trying to chase down or recreate my former
In this episode, I attempt to describe what’s there beyond our changing, moving, psychological experience. As you might imagine, it’s not easy to describe in words. But I try, using one of my favorite ways of thinking about it–the purring cat (I got this from my friend Marnix Pauwels).If anything I say in this episode resonates
What if we’re designed with the ability to eat without needing to think much about it? And what if we never, ever lose this ability…we just think we’ve lost it? I know it can look like we have all the evidence in the world to prove that we don’t know how to eat. We overeat. We restrict.
Gina has been the primary caregiver for her father and step-mother, during a pandemic, no less. To make matters worse, her husband has had some recent health challenges and she’s been caring for him as well. As many of you know firsthand, caretaking can be a huge job.She’s felt the enormity and exhaustion and uncertainty
Politicians do not determine our overall level of wellbeing. Policies and practices, while very important in a macro sense, do not determine what we feel in a micro sense. In this episode, we’ll explore that macro-micro distinction. When we look out to the macro and think it affects the micro, we suffer. That suffering is our
Sarah’s life today is unrecognizable from how it once was.She spent 15 years in and out of hospital, afraid to eat, often on a feeding tube, with more than one suicide attempt. She didn’t think she could cope with life. She didn’t want to grow up, so she kept herself (literally) tiny and physically dependent. Her
Humans are said to process 11 Million bits of information per second. Do you know how much we’re aware of? How many bit make it to conscious awareness? 50.Isn’t that an incredible ratio?! How do you suppose the 50 out of 11,000,000 bits are chosen? Which 50 come to life in a way we can see and recognize?
Harry has touched that space beyond thought. He knows firsthand that he is not his experience.And, for forty-some years, he was caught up in varying degrees of thinking. He had a “normal” life, with problems and suffering and regret…the whole bit.It may have looked like what he saw 40-some years ago was lost, while he
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