by Samantha Lotti | May 10, 2013 | Body-Mind Connection, Biodynamic Thought, Perception and Perspective
Sometimes it’s hard to get up in the morning and remember that today is not the same as yesterday. Often that’s because today looks the same as yesterday. The routine is the same, the people are the same, the problems are the same, and the thoughts and emotions are...
by Samantha Lotti | Apr 18, 2013 | Perception and Perspective, Biodynamic Thought
Once we have told the story of the trauma in our lives to others and others have reflected that story back to us, then it is time to make a choice. Our trauma either defines us for the duration of our life, becoming the closed box from which our actions and words...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 29, 2013 | Biodynamic Thought, Perception and Perspective, Trauma
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...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 23, 2013 | Perception and Perspective, Biodynamic Thought
Venous blood returns to the heart the way rivers merge toward the ocean. Photograph of merging stream networks in Iceland by Andre Ermolaev
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 19, 2013 | Biodynamic Thought, Perception and Perspective
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...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 13, 2013 | Perception and Perspective, Alternative Definitions, Biodynamic Thought
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...
