When enough was truly enough. Photo by Meressa Chartrand on Unsplash Early Human Life We know almost nothing about 98% of human existence, but what we do know suggests we were doing something right. For most of our time on Earth, humans lived within planetary boundaries. Our populations were small, our appetites and…
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How Can We Be More Gentle With Ourselves?
Gentleness, precision, and letting go. Pema Chodron, in ‘The Wisdom of No Escape’, shares with us a secret formula for life. I see it now as an almost mathematical equation describing the hidden homeostatic mechanism balancing what it means to be human. It goes a little something like this…. Life…
Get Out of Your Head!
Figures like the one below have been shared many times from many sources. The point is that we, as humans, are comprised of three key components; Head, Heart, and Gut that interact to make up a whole person. When these parts are out of synch, we experience cognitive dissonance, the…