Category: Self Awareness
using the but word and awareness
A little “but”‘. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it. but \But\ 1. A limit; a boundary. Now let’s simply look at the word ‘but’. I am ready. Staying with a thought or feeling the expression is straightforward, direct and true. True that is, until negated by the dreaded ‘but’. The expression hits a solid wall with…
Clarity and self awareness
Clarity…not yet available in pill form Definition: Clarity from the Latin claritat-, claritas, from clarus, the quality or state of being clear. Need a little clarity? Sorry, but it’s not for sale. Unless you find yourself strolling the streets of the futuristic thriller “Minority Report”, where a drug called “clarity” can be bought quite readily.…
Self awareness and boundaries
Boundaries n- bound-a-ry plr. bound-a-ries Definition: Something that indicates a border or limit. The border or limit so indicated. We seek to communicate with each other. To find a place, a common place, where we can genuinely communicate and touch one another. There is a natural boundary between you and me. A boundary between me…
Meditation for anxiety
Do you ever experience anxiety? When anxiety appears, is it free-floating or is there a specific person, place or thing that triggers its emergence? Anxiety can only occur when you choose to leave the safe haven of the here and now. Before long you may get caught up in your fertile imagination and the catastrophic…
Anesthesia and self awareness
Where are you during anesthesia? A subscriber to this newsletter recently posed a very thoughtful question. Although he was almost convinced that there is something more to us than body and mind (by the mere fact that we can observe the body and the mind which must involve an “it” that does the observing), he…