From my book, Body Over Mind, A Mindful Reality Check Many of us criticize ourself for being inactive; we feel like we do not do enough with our time, or we do the wrong things. What is indispensable for countering this judgment is the knowledge that we can only, ever, be doing the thing we […]
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The Issue of Waiting
An excerpt from my book, Body Over Mind, a mindful reality check The answer to every question in our life will be disclosed to us some time after now. Therefore, when we worry about things happening or not happening, we must wait to find out. This is an aspect of reality that regularly causes us […]
A Thought is a Thought is a Thought
All day long thoughts tell us what we should be doing and what should be happening in our life. It is so completely natural for us to believe these internal recordings that feel so right and familiar. How can it be that these programs are wrong? In my work, which is similar to that of […]
Introduction to my book, Body Over Mind, a mindful reality check
The Illusion of Effort F.M. Alexander, Byron Katie, and Robert Rabbin, three renowned, awareness-based educators, all illuminate the fact that the usual way we perceive ourself, and our behavior, is through our thought process which these three deem to be an unreliable source for acquiring a sense of personal reality. Specifically, what their outlooks have […]
Real Time vs. Thought Time
An excerpt from my book Body Over Mind, a mindful reality check In our mind’s eye problems should resolve quickly, while in actuality they can work themselves out very gradually. Though our physical behavior moves sequentially with the clock, thought does not. Thoughts skip around in ways that make us feel like we can jump […]
Feeling Pressure to “Do” Something: The Physical Reality Principle
-This is an excerpt from my book, Body Over Mind, a mindful reality check 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 […]
Being is Action: The Reality of Doing
What do I mean when I say being is action? I mean that the state of existing in time and space automatically indicates that we are in some state of activity. Some examples of activity would be: lying down, reading a book, typing on the computer, standing in the living room, eating a banana, talking […]
Time, Action and the Illusion of Effort
In my work I talk a lot about the clock, and the fact that it moves by itself, by virtue of the fact that our planet naturally rotates around itself and the sun, which is how we track time. If we stare at the clock, or our watch, we can have proof of this by […]
Our Attachment to Fantasy
When we set large goals in our life, it takes a very long time, if not forever, to adjust to the way things actually go. Marriages, family, partnerships, homes, jobs, and hobbies are areas that present themselves with assumptions of long term continuity. Our mind can wrap itself tightly around a plan, and when a […]
When Good Things Happen
What I find exciting about not knowing what is coming next in life is the guarantee that we will continue to act, and that new things will happen to us every moment of our day. Because the state of being is by default a state of action (by virtue of the fact that we are […]
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