emotional response Archive

  • Zen Dancing: Samadhi Through Movement

    Zen Dancing: Samadhi Through Movement

    Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
  • You Are Brand New

    You Are Brand New

    If you are beset by a negative self-image, especially one that is self-fulfilling and reflected back to you by others...
  • Out with a Swirl

    Out with a Swirl

    Can one respond to suffering the way a cat responds to falling off a roof?  While meditating one night recently,...
  • Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
  • Uncoiling the Downward Spiral

    Uncoiling the Downward Spiral

    Certain needs tend to evoke emotional responses that make the situation worse in a way that aggravates the need, which...
  • Truman Falls Apart

    Truman Falls Apart

    On the verge of seeing through his illusory reality, the main character of The Truman Show has a veritable nervous...