A few years ago I read a description in a book that really stuck with me. It was a small observation of a elderly man who had lost the connection to the words (-I think the condition is called aphasia). The man is out on the street trying to call for his dog, who is walking off, but the only …
I don’t like the word mindfulness very much. The word somehow annoys me. It has long been like a label for all the things I don’t like about body-mind-oriented methods and approaches. The way it sounds to me echos a kind of annoying holiness and standing above the ordinary things – to be full, clear and at peace with yourself …
Over the holidays I read an extensive, funnily (and partly slightly obnoxiously!) formulated article about how there is no scientific evidence that stretching does anything of what sports and health experts for decades have claimed it does. According to the author (- a Canadian massage therapist with years of experience, who has read a large amount of research on this …