Oy vey. Haven't posted here for a while. I've gone unconscious. My rash is with me but seemingly at a "manageable" level. I haven't been thinking about it. I've been itchy and I'm broken out a bit on my arms and stomach, and my legs a little too. But I've been living with it. Please tell me what that means. I can't make meaning right now. Is it bad that I'm "living with it", or good? Well, it can't be good. I've been focused on other things. On my ambitions as a writer/dir...
2 commentsSomething strange has happened over the past few weeks. My rash has made a reappearance. Why? Who knows. Coffee, cigarettes, red meat? "Heat", as my acupuncturist would put it. I run hot, and those things make me even hotter, and then my skin decides to "react". My skin decides to communicate with me, to alarm me. But what's really strange is my emotional response to this reappearance. I was so anxious about this rash for so long, every day that it remained, or that it wo...
Let's talk a little more about this "I'm so out of touch with my body" thing. Carl Jung said there are four main personality types: thinking, feeling, intuitive, and sensation. Thinking and feeling are opposite to each other on the "wheel", just as intuitive and sensation are opposites. So, if I'm an intuitive type -- which I am -- you can imagine that "intuition" is at the top of the wheel, and sensation is therefore at the bottom of the wheel. Inuition is my ...
"We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive. This is no small task, and we are bound to fail often." Robert Jensen. That's what I'm talking about. I heard Jensen doing an interview on the radio the other day and he made the point that the human species' relation to the planet -- rampantly depleting the Earth's resources, blindly continuing down the path to destruction -- is comparable to the individual's relationshi...
If you’re new to this blog, it started with a rash , a bad rash, a mysterious rash covering large portions of my body, an extremely persistent rash. The rash lasted half a year, getting progressively worse for 3 or 4 months, scaring the crap out of me. The itching sometimes kept me up for hours at night. Every Western doctor had a different diagnosis, and every one had a different medication to prescribe – all of which made the rash worse. Finally, I went to see an acupu...
I am so out of touch with my body it’s mind-blowing. I'm a mind guy. But now, at 42, I realize I've got to be a body guy if I'm going to survive and thrive. In yogic moments, it's occurs to me that the body is the vehicle for earthly existence, the soul's expression, and maybe getting in touch with the body, becoming one with the body, is the whole purpose of life on Earth. I want to go deep. I want to go into the body and learn its secrets. I want to know myself through being in touch ...
