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It is important to remember
It is important to remember that the body is self healing, self balancing, self directed, and self reproducing. It does all of this but not without self-awareness. If the body is like this then all of life is like this and so is the Earth. The body cannot heal itself from overwhelming trauma and perhaps Read more
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A Grounded and Radical Hope
A Grounded and Radical Hope An appreciative response to a Deep Adaptation Forum post by Dan Vie and ChatAI: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ZCLwGYYkCdX2zQu4/? It is irrational in my opinion to expect that more technology will solve the problems that it has created. This is because any new technocracy is little different from any old technocracy. In my view Read more
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Change Begins From Within—A Radical New Argument
Change begins from within. Not from without. Change that begins from within includes change from without. The opposite is not true. There is not one without the other. Both are necessary. It isn’t such a complex argument but there are a couple of steps to it. What I am trying to say is at least Read more
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What is Truth?
What is Truth? Reply to a comment on my blog: https://nochairpledge.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/the-paradigm-shift-and-the-body-change-happens-from-within/comment-page-1/#comments Jeffrey, a lot of people say there is no truth and the best we can do is approximation. However I don’t think we’ve really given the truth a chance. I think that we engage in an awful lot of avoidance behaviors around the truth. Read more
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The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Meaningful Change Happens From Within
The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Meaningful Change Happens From Within. I am in a pretty unusual position. I am a healer, historian and a somatic social theorist with an anatomically specific focus on the role that the body plays in psychology, culture and history. I did my undergraduate work at Columbia and doctoral research Read more
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A Handful of Bones
I teach a handful of bones along the axial line, part of the myofascial synergy called the deep core by Thomas Myers. It’s our postural center. The bones are central, prominent coordination centers facilitating interoception, stability and balance. They are shaped like grips and levers and are practically speaking bony servomechanisms for co-operating or conscious Read more