Having worked with someone having an addiction using the Mythoself® process. I’ll speak from that perspective. To start with that wasn’t what they contracted with me to work on, as I probably wouldn’t have been interested in working with them. The work I do is generative, it’s not about going where the problem is, it’s [...]
Archive | March, 2006
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches by Mary Oliver
Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives – tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the young locust trees, in early morning, feel like? Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you? Never to enter the sea and [...]
Here’s a poem for you, by Mary Oliver, I’ve highlighted my favourite line
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes [...]
Applying an “Aesthetic Approach”
What interested me about the Japanese art of flower arranging Ikebana when I first heard about it was that they do the arrangement so it looks perfect, but then break one of the stems or flowers so it looks natural not artificial, then it satisfies their aesthetic sensibilities. To me the attention on, or indeed [...]
I’ve just come back from the dentist
I’ve just come back from the dentist, at one point I would have been doing all sorts of weird and wonderful hypnotic numbing ‘tricks’ on localised areas of my body.. At some point I got that I had been numbing out my entire body, and the 2nd can of Red Bull I’ve just opened is [...]
A short Aikido story
I’ve done some Ki Aikido, as in the lineage of Koichi Tohei. Though I’ve heard most about it from Charlie Badenhop (who has an excellent newsletter, available at http://www.seishindo.org). Among other things he’s a licensed teacher of Ki Aikido and direct student of Tohei, who lives and teaches in Japan. And short Aikido story: Tohei [...]
