Month: February 2012

The Empathic Civilisation: the human family

Empathy is the oppposite of Utopia There is no empathy in Heaven, I guarantee you, I'll tell you before you get there. There isn't any empathy in Heaven because there's no mortality. There's no empathy in Utopia because there is no suffering. Empathy is grounded in the acknowledgement of death and the celebration of life and rooting for each other to flourish and be. It’s based on our frailties and imperfections...We have to start thinking like an extended family!

Spontaneous affirmation

Even though I've been chronically ill for a long time the impetus I have towards wellness is so profound I'd dare call myself HEALTHY!

Pain and suffering

You change your relationship to the pain by opening up to it and paying attention to it. You 'put out the welcome mat.' Not because you’re masochistic, but because the pain is there. So you need to understand the nature of the experience and the possibilities for, as the doctors might put it, 'learning to... Continue Reading →

The art of living: stories as sustenance for the soul

Rachel Naomi Remen is an MD who is a storyteller. She is used to being put down since stories are "anecdotal" and therefore not as important as data. Many of us who read this blog are used to that reality too.

This is what it’s like

I have an illness without a name. So people often cannot figure it out even if it's described rather explicitly.

Blaming has no positive effect at all

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well.  It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other... Continue Reading →

Finding the Good in People We Love

So the question is: Are you willing to put up with your partner’s bad qualities? If you’re not, leave. But the bad qualities are the test of the relationship; your commitment is to their bad qualities. You don’t have to commit to their good stuff. You just do that, that’s pleasant. If somebody wants to cook me dinner, how much of a commitment does it take to show up? Right? Or having my laundry done. I can deal with that. I can show up for that any time you want.

Wash away all my tears: Saturday mellow

Sweet moving song and video. Thanks to the friend who shared this with me!

Yoga for rehab (chronic illness etc)

drawing of woman doing yoga in bed (AI generated) Yoga for rehab

I started yoga while still in bed. It rehabbed me from having been totally atrophied and hardly able to stand more than a couple of minutes. Yoga got me out of bed after being bedridden for many years. It took months of raising one arm and a time, one leg...turning the foot around, then the hand. Micro movements quite often in fact.   Mindful slow repeated movements in bed! Start experimenting and use YouTube. Make as many adjustments as you need and don't worry about form.

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Finnish Open Dialogue: High recovery rates leave many psychiatric beds empty

I started asking particulars about this issue given that in the United States all we hear about is how there are never enough psychiatric beds in hospitals. The fact is if we were healing people like the Finnish people are, we might end up with mostly empty hospitals too.

Over-medicated America: the result of pharmaceutical companies directing medicine (infographic)

A bit over-simplified, but it's a good intro for those who don't like to read all the source articles. The gist of the situation on pharma in America is right on.

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