A few words today encouraging you to be mindful, to be kind to yourself, to help yourself to remain centered, especially in the spinning vortex of ceaseless activity that will characterize the coming weeks of nonstop celebration. Continue reading
Category Archives: Mindfulness
Thoughts on mind and body…
Many of us, particularly those of us from Western cultures, are in the habit of considering the mind and body as entities separate one from the other. Sir Ken Robinson, for example, in one of the most widely watched TED talks, describes an academic as an individual who employs the body to move their head from one meeting to another. In a less amusing example, this from medicine, mental illness is considered different, somehow, from physical illness, and the many aspects of care, coverage and chronicity reflect this. Has Descartes’s mind-body dichotomy outlived its usefulness? Continue reading
Discipline Is Remembering What You Want
In the weeks prior to starting medical school, my brother-in-law gave me a small card with a calligraphed message: Discipline is remembering what you want. I soon affixed it to the wall of my new study carrel where it remained until, years later, I passed it along to a friend who needed it more than I.
Discipline is remembering what you want. What do you want? What do I want? Continue reading