Psychopathic criminals have empathy switch
By Melissa HogenboomScience reporter, BBC News

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Everyone:

Go and borrow or buy Lissa Rankin's Mind Over Medicine, and get as well as it's possible for you to be.

Practice radical kindness towards yourself, because you genuinely are worth it, whoever you may be.

And then tell everyone else the same.

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This is a re-post because I reckon it bears repeating.

It gives me immense pleasure and hope to consider that there is good scientific evidence to support the idea that I can recover from multiple chronic conditions after 28+ years.

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Rankin also has a 4-part discussion of how the mind heals the body and why blaming anyone for their illness doesn ( Read more... )

I've struggled with my resistance to Self-care over the years. While I grokked that my system was trying to protect me from going near anything that upset me, and so derailed a huge variety of methods of self-enquiry and healing, I've recently begun taking Self-care Very Seriously Indeed, and this has led to a discovery:

I'm addicted to not ( Read more... )

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Rankin also has a 4-part discussion of how the mind heals the body and why blaming anyone for their illness doesn't make sense .

This got long and rambling. Every time I thought I was done, more stuff popped up. So I let it.

A long while back, I was writing about "metanoia" (literally, the transformation of the mind) and coming to terms with the concept of redemption in terms of liberation from enslavement, particularly enslavement to beliefs about the self and the world that ( Read more... )

People aren't persuaded into new habits of thought and action by being shouted at, or ignored, or slapped down or called names ( Read more... )

• Please go out and buy (or demand at your library) a copy of Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City: How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds by Sabrina Chase (aka sabrinamari ). It really doesn't matter if you're much interested in HIV, or anthropology, or the US health care system. If you are a person who can read, you should read it. It's part study, part story ( Read more... )

Today, I was overwhelmed by the desire to get watercolour pens to use in my journal. As the rain is torrential, I grabbed a pack of coloured pencils instead and began drawing and colouring in my notebook. No real rhyme or reason I can see, just some shapes, colouring around phrases which I've begun just writing as large as and at any angle I fancy.

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I did no yoga last week.

Well, Shiva Nata is a yoga discipline, so I suppose I did a bit. I have been doing 5 minutes of Shiva Nata, followed by 10 minutes in shivasana, first thing most mornings. I've now upped it to 10 minutes of practice.

And I've missed yoga. I'd got into managing 2-3 times a week with my Maya Fiennes dvd, and I suddenly ( Read more... )