Body
2: The Body of I and Thou
Summary The structural habits of our body filter our experience of the world around us and reduce the incoming data that contributes to our thought and behavioural patterns. If we want to try...
read article11: Thank you
Dear body I have so much to be grateful for that this letter is unlikely to capture all the years. This morning you walked me along the beach, sang to me the hissing of the waves, hummed to me the...
read article13: It's all in the anticipation
Breathe a long, slow inhale up the length of your back, feeling it encourage your head higher. Allow a long, slow exhale to stroke down your front, releasing your ribcage, and encouraging a soft...
read article15: The first conversation
We had recently moved out of London in order to bring up very young children. I still had a two-hour commute to work each day. I was constantly at the behest of the clock and permanently exhausted. My...
read article17: Look at your hands
Look at your hands awhile. Turn them over and study them, their curves and lines, maybe stretch the fingers open a few times as if receiving a gift and then release them. Look now at one hand, thumb...
read article18: The quality of your desire
Summary We do or we don't want things (actual things, or relationships, or ideas). We desire them, or we avoid them or we fear them. Any which way, we are in a relationship with the thing as we see...
read article24: Spinning the ropes
I've a new hobby, though it's strange to call it that. It's just something I do most days. I spin a rope. It's about the thickness of my thumb, with a couple of knots I've tied at the ends as handles,...
read article25: Writing as transmission
If you stop to think about it, writing is a torturous path for passing on knowledge. I have an experience. I reduce it down to a few distinct thoughts about that experience. I write it down,...
read article28: Silencing
Last week, a meteorite smashed down on a driveway in rural England. The homeowner thought that someone had thrown a lump of coal on their tarmac. Thankfully, the news that day was full of scientists...
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