EMBODIMENT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE COMPLICATED
It can be: Noticing your breath a few times a day Coming back onto your heels when rushing Widening your awareness when wanting more confidence Going for a walk when stuck for ideas Relaxing your belly when stressed etc. Keep it simple.
Coming to love the archetypal father
A lot of my life has centred on first fighting, then coming to love the archetypal father. In a feminised society where boys are largely raised by women and masculinity mocked, repressed and despised, this is a hard journey. The world now embodies the supposedly caring but tyrannical mother of both state and counter culture. She […]
The first place terrorists win is in the body
Whatever the form, the purpose of terrorism is to produce a fight-flight state that perpetuates violence. Scared people hurt people, and hurt people hurt yet MORE people. This is the cycle of: violence-hindbrain dominance – more violence. This fight-flight reaction causes neo-cortical inhibition (you get stupid) and blocks the social engagement system (you get mean). […]
We live in a badly self-regulated disconnected time
We live in a badly self-regulated disconnected time. Basically we’re lonely toddlers in tantrum land. And yeah, me included many days. People buy shit they don’t need and do shit that hurts them to fill a void that can only be filled by meaning and community. We are cut off from ourselves, others and the […]