a new year’s question. what is health? and how do we get it? etymologically, the word health comes from the same root as the word wholeness. wholeness is being and accepting all that you are. letting go of your denial of the parts of yourself that you don’t like. as well as your denial of the [...]
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getting better all the time when i started this motivator a month or so ago i stated that i wanted my blog to work for me, something like being able to go to it at anytime and sniff out a clue, a direction to move in, a space to sit in, whatever. and as i [...]
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they tempt me with violence they punish me with ideals and they crush me with an image of my life that’s nothing but unreal except on the goddamned slave ship of failure —m.gira everything is a circle way back in november of 2008 (am i the only one who feels like a month is a [...]
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careful what you ask for reported a month ago that i was clearing some psychic space to create a work-free saturday, through the simple act of creating this friday afternoon update, and that a couple of weeks after i began that project i hit a partial and freed up my saturday mornings. well…that was before the current [...]
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I ain’t no doctor a weekly column by charles faris, hhc All politics are internal In the spirit of the week, and playing off my recent (and to be continued) musings on democracy, todays topic is something that has been batted about a bit from podiums all across the land during the course of this [...]
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the grateful dead is a buddhist term well it’s friday again, and what a long strange week it’s been. not strange as in supernatural, extremely unusual, or “what the heck was that?”. strange as in when’s the last time i got up in the dark five days in a row to catch the train into [...]
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I ain’t no doctor a weekly column by charles faris, hhc Last week I began looking at a question from Massachusetts Sugar Fiend, who claimed to be “plagued by the desire to eat sweets; breakfast, lunch and dinner, morning, noon and night”, and wanted to know “what foods are good alternatives to satisfy my sugar [...]
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something scary got in the way of a title so i did an end-around and jumped right into the body. which works fine for me. my old lit-in-translation professor, dr. maurice labelle, who probably did more to stoke the fires of cynical humor in me than a thousand politicians ever could, used to say get [...]
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true story i posted earlier about ryan higgins and “his” mind movies, and may post on that again, as the story has unfolded a bit since then. today, however, i’m writing about the back story, which is a perfect example of how not to treat difficult people. you know, people who don’t agree with you. [...]
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I Ain’t No Doctor a weekly health column by charles faris, hcc Charles, Like many people, I work too hard and find myself stressed under deadlines on a regular basis. My stress often goes to my stomach and I can suffer from a poor appetite, so I don’t feel like eating and would rather keep working. What [...]
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