mental-health

  • Care-Free Wandering (Zhuangzi)

    [PREVIOUS] Responsive to Skillful Attention Following the river where it bends—not because rivers knowbut because bending is what rivers dowhen they meet the unmovable. After months of decluttering awareness through Nagarjuna’s emptiness and learning to show up with skillful attention,… Continue reading

    Care-Free Wandering (Zhuangzi)
  • Siren Song Society: Profound Boredom – Authentic Leisure – Existential Liberation

    offer these connections to encourage people to be okay with boredom–to not see every break in labor or in study or in whatever as requiring us to find something to amuse ourselves into utter alienated distraction. Continue reading

    Siren Song Society: Profound Boredom – Authentic Leisure – Existential Liberation
  • New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa

    At the age of 24 Dawn was preparing to move to Colorado with her boyfriend when she was overtaken by a manic episode which included severe anxiety, hallucinations, and paranoia. She recalls driving around a hospital parking lot debating whether… Continue reading

    New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa
  • OM Calming Meditation | Youtube

    Related articles Meditation on Sound (travellerunknown.wordpress.com) Gayatri Mantra and Its Scientific Interpretation (harikrishnamurthy.wordpress.com) “Om – Everythin… (katymobley.wordpress.com) Significance of OM (experiencehinduism.wordpress.com) Keeping concentration during meditation (buddhajourney.net) OM – State of non-return (dierievnia.wordpress.com)   Continue reading

    OM Calming Meditation | Youtube
  • Madness and (American) Civilization

    In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, pathologizing of normal behaviors, Big Pharma corruption of psychiatry, and the adverse effects… Continue reading

    Madness and (American) Civilization
  • How to Spot a Sociopath | The Daily Beast

    Yesterday, while I was watching George Zimmerman’s interview from last year with Sean Hannity, I began asking myself, “How do you spot a sociopath?” M. E. Thomas describes herself as a cutthroat attorney who sailed through law school without much… Continue reading

  • Daodejing 42

    #42* Dao begets one. One begets two. Two begets three. Three begets 10,000 things. The 10,000 things carry YIN on their backs and embrace YANG. Yin and Yang contest Then blend each with the Other in harmony. People detest most… Continue reading

    Daodejing 42
  • Time to Improvise

    unfueled – uncompromisedundefined – unconditionedunbounded – unforeseenuncanny – unbornmindfulnessliberationnirvana I had a most wonderful & meandering mindwalk with my beloved Collin Hauser yesterday while hanging around Big Mike’s Cofffee Shop. We wandered wondering down this Platonic avenue and then through… Continue reading

    Time to Improvise
  • A Boon of Dandelions 6

    One of those days, the kind where the full joyous light of the day before waned and eclipsed to melancholy. Discussions in and out of class of superstructural boundaries that impress and compress, beneath a veil of peace, pushing the… Continue reading

    A Boon of Dandelions 6
  • Honest Acknowledgment

    The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately… Continue reading

    Honest Acknowledgment
  • Struggle Falling Away: Love

    “Here it is–right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”  Huangbo, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po “Meditation is very simple. It means to surrender the mind, the body, and the world, from moment to moment, to the… Continue reading

  • No Room for Improvements

    You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you stop doing Yoga or meditating or learning skills… Continue reading

    No Room for Improvements
  • 30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know | But You Dont Look Sick? support for those with invisible illness or chronic illness

                                                    Source: lutranchesi.files.wordpress.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest   Thanks to my old friend from High School,… Continue reading

  • How Brewing Coffee Can Up Cognitive Dexterity « SolsticeSon’s Celebrational Servings

    A really nice meditation on the need to change the routine using an everyday example to drive home the notion. Kudos! Start seeing your actions from an outside perspective and questioning why you do what you do. In many cases,… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121223

    In this loving struggle, death though certain has no sting; chance, no power; guilt, no blame; pain, no duration. Let-go violent force & obtain fortitude. Continue reading

  • Feeling Sad and Depressed? « beyondclicktivism

      Feeling Sad and Depressed? « beyondclicktivism. Continue reading