Holiday vs. Vacation
What do you do when you aren’t feeling motivated? What do you do when you feel like you’ve come up to a dead end–when nothing seems to be panning out and you aren’t especially excited about where you are at, and you have no faith in your ability to get anywhere else? Well, [...]
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Sharing the Morning Pages
I’ve been starting my day with 3 handwritten pages off and on for the past 10 years, full-on steady for the past 9 or 10 months. I wake up, walk to the couch, sit down and let the words pour out. It’s a process I initially lifted from Julia Cameron, author of [...]
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Show me the Benjamins
I’ve written here before about early rising, and while those words remain true in spirit if not 100% compliance (I am after all a yogi, so a modicum of flexibility is de rigueur), there is a dark side to the early rising regimen which can afflict those of us who are now [...]
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climbing the ladder
so here i sit, raw green smoothie in hand, pondering another week of life on this planet earth. another week in my year of self healing: taking the time and offering the awareness to obtain optimal health, and with it, making this year my best year ever. and what the heck has transpired in this [...]
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home sweet home
after a week of long days, sleeping in the spare room of my dear friends kami and akesha, i’m settling into a period of relative stability in roslindale, on fairview street, which does indeed have a fair view, and which also leads up a hill and then down a hill straight in the [...]
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psst…
well i got a secret but can i keep it
i better cross my heart and hope to die
—stacey earle
not a happy secret, i’m sorry to say. and unlike the general theory of secrets (yours are mostly forgotten, never revealed; mine simply the latter), this one has a half life of a couple weeks at most. [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
note: while the non-doc continues to ponder sleep, we’ve dug up this ancient document from his formative years.
If It Hurts, You Are Doing It Wrong
When he first began to teach yoga in the early 70’s, David Williams was told that the “the worst thing is to [...]
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fit hits shan!
rowan, my three and a half year old, has been working the countdown lately, something like “ready, set git, go!” in that spirit i’m talking about the week when the fit hit the shan!
and that would be this week, of course, as it is friday and that’s what we do on fridays, go [...]
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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 economic [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Last week I began talking about sleep, how much is enough and how to get enough. I definitely came out in favor of quality over quantity, and offered up a list of important factors in getting the most out of your time asleep, going over the [...]
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