Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." - Lewis Carroll
“I don’t know”
Is sugar toxic?
The New York Times covers the toxicity of our favorite "food." Diet matters and it's about time the mainstream media starting attending to this fact. There are many things in the standard American diet that harm. Sugar is as good a place as any to start learning about this issue that we might start making... Continue Reading →
Food as medicine
I’m not even off the introduction diet but after eliminating many many foods (most foods at this point — foods are slowly re-introduced over the course of the diet when and if they are tolerated and then after a couple of years most people can eat most real whole foods again, after the gut is healed). In any case once eliminating foods I was allergic to — within two weeks my severe and acute neuropathic pain abated. My parasthesia abated. Most astonishingly my PTSD is gone! And so was the anger/hostility that generally arises around the time of ovulation. GONE.
Saturday mellow (there’s a limit to your love)
This is a stunning video and song both. Enjoy.
To know the human psyche…
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab... Continue Reading →
Make your own nature sounds soundtrack, for free
Use this free tool to play nature sounds on headphones while reading or meditating or just for fun. Nature Sounds In order for nature sounds to start playing choose a sound from drop-down box for one of the channels and drag the volume slider up. You can add more nature sounds to composition by choosing... Continue Reading →
You can’t heal what you don’t feel
Can you imagine a life without one of your five senses? Maybe, but it certainly isn’t something you would joyfully embrace. Even if having all five senses means you sometimes see, smell, hear, touch, or taste things that elicit a negative reaction, you understand the gift of having all five far eclipses those unpleasant moments.
Get curious about your experience…
The below excerpt from Tricycle Magazine about dealing mindfully and skillfully with physical pain can be done with emotional pain too and in fact is closely related to what Jayme shares here in healing her own mental distress. One night when I was still new to meditation, I lay awake for hours in agony from... Continue Reading →
LOVE FOR SALE: the trouble with professional caregivers
So this is how the vicious social services cycle begins. Instead of directing her instinctive surge of mothering energy towards her own children, Dr. Dewar directs it – for profit – towards the children of strangers [probably using some of the profits to hire a professional caregiver to direct inferior mothering energy at her own children]. Finding themselves out-of-place and re-placed in the professional setting, the mothers of Dr. Dewar’s surrogate, hospitalized children will then be forced to redirect their own energies, starting a double-edged chain reaction: all of the mothers continuously frustrated by failed attempts to mother other things (not the children they were designed to care for) and none of the children benefiting from the highly personalized and unconditional-love-charged energy of their own mothers.
We are the web of life
This we know; all things are connected like the blood that unites us We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. ~Chief Seattle