Lessons that apply not just to muscles but also to most of our lives
First of all, remember that the brain thinks in patterns not individual muscles.
Secondly, the brain learns from failure.
Third, manual muscle testing is most effective with light pressure.
Fourth, Neurology rules the roost.
Fifth, it takes repetition to change a dysfunctional pattern into a functional one.
David Weinstock, author of NeuroKinetic Therapy: An Innovative Approach to Manual Muscle Testing
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity;
I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
Annie Lamott, Traveling Mercies
The trees don’t rush to grow their leaves.
They wait for the right light, the right warmth.
And so must we.
Katrina Kenison, Winter Lessons
In a life properly lived, you’re a river.
You touch things lightly or deeply;
you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it…
Jim Harrison, 1937 – 2016, American poet, novelist, and essayist.
The meditation instruction is simple: just sit down, allow yourself to sit with dignity, and pay attention. That’s all.
You don’t have to regard this as some exalted activity you’re doing. It’s just ordinary and profound = being present with yourself.
Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape
A Japanese tea bowl, irregular in shape and glazed in earthy tones, may at first glance seem crude compared to the precision of fine porcelain. Yet its roughness is deliberate – an aesthetic choice that honors the handmade, the asymmetrical, and the imperfect. It invites us to appreciate the beauty of the unrefined, the incomplete, and the transient.
Western art has often pursued an ideal of flawless execution, but this can leave us feeling inadequate in the face of our own imperfections. By contrast, the Wabi-Sabi tradition reminds us that there is profound beauty in the marks of wear, the uneven edge, the faded color – signs that an object has lived, been used, and borne witness to time.
Alain de Botton and John Armstrong, Art as Therapy
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