Traveling With Discomfort
3 scheduled flights, 6 delays, 1 cancellation and 2 lost then found bags later I am once again SITTING which seems to me to be the bane of modern humanity's existence. Sitting in…
Music is MAGIC
Recent studies confirm that what artists and native indigenous cultures have known and practiced for millennia...MUSIC IS MORE THAN WALLPAPER SOUND for parties, social gatherings and holidays. Music has a profound and lasting…
Your Body Is Your Prayer
"OhdearlordbabyJesusMaryandJosephhelpmeorI'llpuke" is not a terribly elegant way of expressing gratitude for the ability to move and breathe and esteem yourself after a year in bed, sick and in blinding discomfort. Sometimes though,…
Hurt Like Tom Brady?
There's a great article in the Washington Post about how Tom Brady has been a laughing stock of NFL trainers and others who think that yoga and mindfulness are the stuff of ... well,…
Pain Can Be a Firm Foundation
You'll hear yoga instructors often say "Return to your breath". This usually occurs just about the time you are thinking "How am I paying for this shit?" or "Why am I even…
Use Your Dang Imagination
If we are going to learn to manage our constant difficult sensation or intense discomfort without an over-dependence on external "easy" or "instant" relief we are going to have to use our…
Pain Breathing 101
One of the hardest things to do is to put into practice an already vague idea that you read about in a book or online. That's why people pay a lot of…
Loneliness and Pain
It's a fact of science that loneliness causes inflammation of the brain. If you're alone or without substantive meaningful human contact it can actually cause depression and heighten chronic discomfort. I know…
Good Pill Bad Pill
"Have a pill, leave a pill. Need a pill, take a pill." should have been a sign above the water cooler in so many professional environments that I've been in. The number of…
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