339 Confusion on the Path, The Dangers of Meditation • Leo Lok
Conditions Meditation is seen as an ancient panacea to modern problems. Mindfulness and equanimity will help with your productivity at work, relationships at home, reduce your need for certain medication and in general make you a better version of yourself. But the inward turned...
306 Suffering is Meant to Awaken Us, Qi Gong and the Alchemy of Transformation • Chris Shelton
Practitioner Cultivation & Development There’s a saying that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. Maybe. I suspect that it has something to do with the capacity of your 意 Yi to make meaning, and the vitality of the 志 Zhi to take that meaning and marry it to the sense of what you’re here to do in this...
265 Attending to the Landscape of Body and Being • Stephen Schleipfer
Bodywork Patients come to us expecting a change in their situation—whether that is to gain or get rid of something. And as the ‘expert’ in the room, there’s a proclivity to go in with the intention to find what’s wrong and remediate it. Consider that as...
262 Causes and Conditions of Illness and Health • Greg Bantick
Mindfulness & Meditation We often think of germs, genetic abnormalities, poor lifestyle choices or plain bad luck as being the cause of illness and disease. We go looking for the “smoking gun,” for the one thing that was the source of our troubles, but often the health issues we face arise...