Clean and sober: now what? 90 meetings in 90 days, read the book, get a sponsor, write out your steps longhand, read the Morning Reflections, change everything and did I mention; ”Go to meetings”? I thought that getting sober was going to be a long slog from one recovery oriented duty to another. Sure,…
I am a baby boomer. I have known about the climate crisis for years yet I am also a part of the deafness about climate change. I knew about it 50 years ago, 40 years ago, during the drought in the 70’s when we got new faucet heads for the showers and flushed only when…
What a strange weekend! What a strange series of events. I believe I am coming to, now. I have been out of sorts, offline, out of touch, nervous but numb. I did one thing right; I contacted my sponsor. Just in case I lot my mind. But it turns out I turned off. There wasn’t…
Yoga is an amazing practice. The physical postures energize at the same time they relax you, strengthen the body while adding flexibility and balance. Breathwork and meditation can be used at any time to recenter you, bringing you to present time awareness. Self-knowledge can be developed with an ongoing yoga practice that can lead you…
Without denial and avoidance, I want to understand and unify my selves. I don’t want to repress the negative, unpleasant or unlovely thoughts and feelings I have. I don’t want to deny them. Nor do I want to perseverate and stubbornly repeat them obscuring the positive. l don’t know if you have done this, but…
So why am I worried? I am worried because I no longer live as if I were waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The Big Problem My device for reading, my laptop for the yoga studio business, my desktop for writing and continuing education courses (produced and taken) and for the service that I am involved in, as well as my ever present phone for all of the above and more – all at hand all readily available,…
I have been trying to unravel the relationships between perceptions, illusions (or delusions) and triggers, and what yoga offers me in terms of healing. PIT (perceptions, illusions, and triggers) grab me through my senses and misguide me via my gut. My gut informs my brain, again, and without a pause, without intervention, my thinking…
Worrying changes everything. That is the illusion I have when I drop into the realm of consternation and fear; if I worry about all the details, if I plan, if I monitor, if I control I will be able to make things… All right? Go smoothly? Turn out for the best? Avoid the dog knotted…
Suppressing anger can be toxic. Just as resentments are a form of taking poison hoping the subject of your feelings dies – so can repressed anger churn and infect you. What happened was this: someone said something uncaring and unkind to me. The top of my head blew off. Well, it felt like it. I…