Emotional Terrain: Anger
[Exploring Life] Anger is a strong emotional reaction in response to a perceived provocation or injustice. The emotional reaction consists of an often unintended improvisatory abyss of displeasure, irritation, resentment, outrage, and enmity. Anger is an extreme reaction that takes our body and mind to the very edge of a threshold in which rationale thinking [...]
Time: Dreaming Time
[Exploring Life] Defining time is an immensely difficult task. We superimpose clocks and calendars as a means to orient ourselves to the natural cycles of the earth. Both clocks and calendars are ideas that serve to create presuppositions about how we relate to the movement and flow of our lives. A “new year” is a [...]
Mental Degradation: Habit – Involuntary Routines
How much of our experience is driven by involuntary tendencies and habits? Understanding the nature and essence of habit in our lives is an essential task. Habits are both inevitable and unavoidable. They are a medium of perception; a complex network of filters that influence how we interpret and orient ourselves to everyday life. The [...]