The Chaos In Your Life Has Meaning
Some time ago when I was going through a difficult moment in my life I was fortunate to find myself in New Mexico in the presence of a Jungian analyst who was also a Huichol Shaman. He asked me if I had heard of the Lindisfarne Gospels. I hadn’t. He walked over to his...
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Venous blood returns to the heart the way rivers merge toward the ocean. Photograph of merging stream networks in Iceland by Andre Ermolaev
Pain: A Method of Communication
There are few things that we all have in common. One of these things is pain. Pain is largely defined as an unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of intensity as a consequence of injury, disease, and/or mental and emotional suffering. Some synonyms are...
Learning from the Embryo: The Power of Gesture
At five weeks the embryo is 5-7 mm long (about the size of a dry lentil). It is budding upper and lower limbs. Its heart is large and rapidly growing in size. By week seven the heart is enormous. Using an adult body as a reference, the heart stretches from the bottom...
You Can Be Independent Because You Are Dependent
We are American, and we are independent. We make things happen. We don’t need others. In fact, we often say that we shoulder the weight of the world by ourselves in our lives. We shoulder it with no significant help from those around us, strangers or friends alike. In...
Learning From the Embryo: Imprinted for Change
When you were an embryo your body developed from one cell that underwent division. It underwent division once, twice, tens of thousands of times. At every stage of forming and shaping, you were a complete, fully functioning organism. You often did not look like your...
When You’re Lost, Find Your Body
Our brain is a magnificent tool. Beyond its intricately complicated physiological functions, it helps our conscious mind navigate the world. In milliseconds it can think through a circumstance, all the possible outcomes, make a decision, and initiate action on that...
Love as the Felt Sense of Heat
The anatomical heart has a natural tendency to dilate (expand). If it weren't contained by the pericardium (the sac surrounding the heart), it would expand into the whole chest cavity. This might explain that sense of openness that we feel when our heart gets...
Single Sentence Thought #1
The direction of the body is growth. --Samantha Lotti
Growth as a Physiological Gesture
Growth is a physiological gesture, an expression of a visceral and cellular self. Just like a thought, growth is not a tangible object in a linear world but rather a vessel of potential creativity that, when put in sequence, translates into our living physical...
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