To Be Alone

Being alone has developed a terrible reputation. Look around and see how much emphasis is placed on not being alone: there are a variety of services that specialize in preventing people from being alone; medical and psychological advice circulates telling us that being alone is a threat to health and even to life itself. I … Read More

The Self-Esteem Factor

It’s not a question of whether self-esteem is important — the only question is how important self-esteem actually is. Right? I don’t think so… I may be touching the proverbial third rail here, but I believe self-esteem is a vastly overemphasized quality. In western culture in particular, self-esteem has become much like a product that … Read More

Inhabit Your Body

I’ve spent the majority of my life experience being almost entirely absent from my body. What do I mean by this? I mean that I rarely, if ever, had a connection with my body: I was too busy engaging thinking. I was thinking of the past, and particularly, thinking of the future. Nearly every conscious … Read More