Meaning: Following THAT Star. The alternative is Meaningless
This is my quest: to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far.
Humans are strange animals: they need meaning to make their lives to feel more than just existing. They need purpose to give a backbone, to give direction, to transform a life of prose to poetry.
But life is, in itself, empty and meaningless… so how do you find the meaning, how do you find the purpose?
I was 38 years old when meaning first entered
It put me into a walk-down memory lane mood, and I revisited some events in my life I haven’t remembered in decades.
For example the only person I ever saw as compatible, left after a few weeks, without saying good bye.
I could grieve it, but I think it was fortunate. I loved him too much…
When you love someone or something too much, you put your own self interest on hold, and become a slave to that person or thing…
In hindsight this is why I was so disproportionately captivated and mortified by a “Criminal Minds” episode, where the wo
Hippocrates said: food will be your medicine.
Let’s look at that statement from my experience with myself, and with my clients.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
– attributed to Hippocrates
Lay people (you) jump into conclusions… and jump from one superfood to the next, from one fad to the next, from one magic bullet to the next.
Modern (ineffective) medicine attacks this statement.
Energy medicine attacks this statement.
This is the worst news for any he
I am going to share, in this article, some of the judgmental sounding questions I ask when I try to get a full picture about someone who is asking for help.
As you probably don’t know, judgment comes from ego, from comparison. I am smart and you are stupid… that is judgment.
You are stupid isn’t judgment unless you feel something in your chest or throat as you say it. Unless it means something about you.
I feel nothing, or maybe sadness, when I ask these assessment question… that help me make sense out of the convoluted picture each person is.
So I measure your vibration… and it’s, for example, low.
Mental Representation… an incredibly useful distinction and an incredibly rare capacity
I loved the book ‘Peak, the new science of expertise’, until almost the very end. Then I got angry.
Somewhere around 90% of the book I noticed that he uses an expression, a phrase, that means something to him, the author, but meant nothing to me.
Now I know how you feel when you read my articles…
The expression he used was “Mental Representation“.
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I have a new client. 35 year old male from Central Africa.
I suggested that he posts his food diary and mood diary every day, so we can figure out how to get him well.
So far there are intense symptoms of yeast die-off, once we removed sources of sugar and starches.
Going deeper, I found…