You cannot not be where your body is because there is no “you” other than the organism that is your body in space. This whereabouts is our only action, “I am standing in the kitchen making coffee.” There is no additional action occurring by our person the way it feels. Those feelings are thoughts, distractions, […]
Category: Mindfulness
Sand Castles and Streams
In the spirit of writing something down, I will free associate today. Since early March, I have been generating a clear message on the blog almost each day, wondering how long that would last. It was a surprise when it came on, as I had previously only been posting something a few times a month. […]
My “Things Not-To-Do” List
My Things Not-To-Do List, otherwise known as my Anti-Goals exercise, is a practice much like making a regular To-Do list. It goes like this: Make a three-column table putting titles at the top of each column as below. In column one, make a list of everything you hope to accomplish exactly as you would […]
What Do Author Diaries and Science Have in Common?
On my writing table lies a selection of books of oddly juxtaposed topics that makes me question the relationship of my interests: Why Evolution Is True, by Jerry Coyne; The Diary of Virginia Woolf; The Blank Slate: the modern denial of human nature; The Diary of Anaïs Nin; and Touching a Nerve: the self as […]
The Personal
Today I got out of bed a bit later because I fell back to sleep. It took me some time to realize I had in fact fallen back to sleep as I was in a deep dream state and it felt like real life. I lied in bed and looked at people’s blogs who had […]
Life in Real Time: What We Are Doing
Hello, I don’t usually self-promote on my blog posts but today I would like to share this description of the practice I have developed called Mindful Reality and encourage anyone interested to read one or both of the books I have written (they are short), which you can find under the Book section of this blog! […]
Just Like Now
At any given time in the future, it will be just like now. My body will be where it is, in some specific activity, giving its weight to some specific surface (a piece of furniture, or directly to the ground), my body parts moving about in some busy-ness, attending to their immediate environment. My life […]
Feeling Pressure to “Do” Something: The Physical Reality Principle
When I am feeling stressed, whether it be a result of guilt, worry, sadness, anger or fear, I feel like I need to do something to make things better. When weighed down by this pressure, I tell myself very directly that doing something is a physical act that requires the use and availability of my body. If my body is […]
Why We Don’t Make Decisions
I can see what I am doing next, as next is already here now. My body is sturdily in its activity, its weight on a particular surface and the rest of my parts in their specific movements, while the clock moves automatically (Earth rotating on its own accord). This is our only action, ever, our […]
The Issue of Fragmentation: The Mind-Body Connection
Notwithstanding the innate harmonization of the body, many of us still perceive ourself to be fragmented. The mind, for one, is commonly thought of as other than the body, and it is this misperception I would like to address here. The universal phrase “mind-body connection” reflects the impression that the mind and the body are […]
Jill Eng 