Perspective
Seen from high enough all of life’s problems are small. An economist, when asked why he had no economic model for the long term, only
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Chi Kung
Chi Kung or working with energy. I’ve recently had one or two people ask about the Chi Kung we do in class, so I thought
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The Elements
As students progress through the Masters’ Course they develop their understanding of the Elements that they have been learning about during the Advanced Course. I
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Meditation & Self Hypnosis
Meditation and Self Hypnosis Before reading this I suggest that you read the Understanding Stress Blog Stress is the result of prolonged activity of the
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Understanding Stress
The sympathetic nervous system arouses the body, preparing it for vigorous activity. Often referred to, inaccurately, as the “fight or flight response” it is a
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The Learning Process
I was considering the down times in the learning process. Those points when we are likely to quit. You might find these thought provoking. The
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Philosophy
The Unconscious
We learn to create the world we live in. The unconscious processes billions of bits of information per second and makes automatic judgements about which
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Philosophy
Who’s Reality?
Enlightenment through Koans, just join the dots and a picture emerges. A Koan is a story or a question that encourages the listener to reframe
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Tao
Lao Tzu defined contentment as the only measure by which we should gauge both personal success and the filter through which society’s values should be
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Mountain Lake
The imagery of the eight trigrams represent the combinations of yin and yang that are possible with three sections. The solid bar represents yang, while
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